13 Rue Madeleine is a 1947 American World War II spy film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte and Frank Latimore.

At the end of their training, three of the new agents—Frenchwoman Suzanne de Beaumont, American Jeff Lassiter and Kuncel—are sent to Britain, where they prepare to fly into German-occupied territory.

(Paramount), Cloak and Dagger (Warner Bros./United States Pictures) and Notorious (RKO), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

The film followed Fox's The House on 92nd Street, a true story of FBI counterespionage, which shared the same director, producer and one of the writers.

However, Sy Bartlett, one of the film's scriptwriters, had served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and claimed that such an incident did indeed take place, although in a different context.

In a scathingly negative contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther wrote:The highly incredible notion that a known Nazi agent would be assigned to parachute into Holland is startlingly introduced.

And the final device, in which our bombers are dispatched to destroy the house in which this agent, captured, is being tortured, is sheer, undisguised "Hollywood."

Mr. Cagney is earliest and convincing as the boss spy until he lands in France; then his pose as a Vichy Frenchman is utterly fatuous.

[4]Crowther wrote more about the film several days after his initial review:The whole show, despite some vivid action, evolves as a straight adventure splash.

And we'll further agree that the consequence ... makes a fast and muscular show, once it has recklessly departed with its initial objective style.