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O.S.S. (1946)

O.S.S. poster
Directed by
Irving Pichel
Genre
spy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 14 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Agents of the Office of Strategic Services carry out wartime missions in Europe, facing danger and betrayal as they try to undermine the enemy.

patrioticgrittymatter-of-facttensehistoricearnestsuspenseful

What happens

O.S.S. is a 1946 American war spy film directed by Irving Pichel and starring Alan Ladd, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Patric Knowles. Produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, it portrays the activities of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. The screenplay was written by Richard Maibaum, a World War II veteran who would later write twelve of the first fifteen James Bond films. Maibaum, a former Broadway actor, also narrates the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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