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O.S.S. [VHS]

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A great supporting cast which makes the movie happen and a great semi-documentary story of action and drama. A real cliff-hanger based on files of the OSS so it plays well.
Alan Ladd and Geraldine Fitzgerald (who's worth the price of admission just to look at) both early in career's do a great job. He was an exceptional natural athelete which shows well in the movie, and their obvious acting talent really come out.
Well worth seeing. She is also excellent in that time in Watch On The Rhine, a real classic of the war and the movies.

O.S.S. has long been one of my favorite Alan Ladd films. As a spy in WWII, he's handsome, strong, intelligent, competent, patriotic, and romantic---what more can you ask? The cast is excellent, and the plot is complex and suspenseful.

I was a bit nervous about buying a DVD imported from Brazil. Though the cover art and the DVD's opening screen are written in Portuguese, all that's needed is one click on the language menu to select English instead of Portuguese, and the movie plays exactly as it was filmed, in English.

Very good film with Alan Ladd as the head of his O.S.S. team dropped into Germany. Each one the team members do there part and each one pays dearly. The ending is a shocking twist! Buy This Film!

Stars Alan Ladd as an OSS officer dropped behind the lines in France to sabotage railways and other military targets. Start of film shows agents in training and then being air dropped into France. Tense and well acted. Above average spy film. Vendor shipped immediately and DVD quality is very good...soundtrack is in English and will play on USA players....subtitles can be easily turned off.....overall a very good film and a good quality DVD..Regular DVD..not DVD-R.

The movie was very good and showed how the O.S.S. worked in world war II. I would recommend this movie as a must see. It isn't the typical war movie of soldiers in battle but the undercover operations of the O.S.S.

this is a very good movie~ Alan Ladd is recruited into the OSS ~ the Office of Strategic Services (Pree CIA) and this started the USA in spying behing enemy lines~

This shows how they recruted people who lived in France and trained them with special weapons (a pipe that is a gun) how to use a radio. They also recrute a woman~ who is an artist~! (Gerald Paige) and who lived in France for three years~ now the plan is to blow up a Train Tunnel~ and they accomplish it~ on the LIGHTER SIDE EVEN THE GERMANS HAVE AMERICAN ACCENTS~ MORE THAN AMUSING! The plot takes a bit of a fun twist when they are "detained" by a Gestopo Agent for questioning and he turns out to be "for sale' and offers them secrets, a radio and help escaping for a price~ at ever turn he gives them a "tally" of the total they owe him~ more than funny~ Ladd is very good the scene stealer here it the GESTOPO WHO IS FOR SALE~ I GIVE IT A 4 OUT OF 5 FOR SPIES ~ LADD IS NOT AT HIS BEST~ SO 4 STARS~ ONE THE LIGHTER SIDE LADD WAS ONLY ABOUT 5 FEET 7 INCHES TALL AND WORE "LIFTS IN HIS SHOES" TO MAKE HIM APPEAR TALLER~ :-)GERALDINE PAGES IS ALSO VERY GOOD AS THE GIRL SPY WHO IS WILLING TO DIE FOR THE CAUSE~

The Office of Strategic Services, or OSS came into existence by Presidential order in June of 1942. This predecessor of the CIA replaced a variety of informal government groups that had no coordination or specific agenda. The OSS's original function was to gather strategic intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Starting in 1943, the OSS trained Nationalist Chinese troops. In the ETO, they managed to infiltrate German-occupied areas of France and even operated in Germany itself. President Truman disbanded the OSS in September '45 but replaced it the following January with the Central Intelligence Group.

SYNOPSIS for the film "O.S.S."--

In this episodic story, Alan Ladd and Geraldine Fitzgerald are part of a trained team that parachutes into enemy-held France, where they spy and commit acts of sabotage. During "Operation Applejack," Ladd has doubts about his female partner's abilities, but she allays these by making friends with a German colonel. She hides a bomb in a sculpted bust of the officer and hops a train with it and him. What happens next? You'll have to see the movie to find out!

As of 12/08, "O.S.S." was not available on an American-made studio released DVD.

Just prior to this picture, Alan Ladd appeared in George Marshall's excellent film noir, THE BLUE DAHLIA, which was scripted by Raymond Chandler. Ladd's co-stars here are Veronica Lake, William Bendix and Howard Da Silva. (VHS only)

Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 viewer poll rating found at a film resource website.

(7.0) O.S.S. (1946) - Alan Ladd/Geraldine Fitzgerald/Patric Knowles/John Hoyt/Gloria Saunders/Richaed Webb/Richard Benedict/Don Beddoe/Bobby Driscoll (uncredited: John Dehner)

Back as a kid I was a real Alan Ladd fan. Here I see him as being a little to "slick" as the WWII spy in France and German.

The first incarnation of James Bond American style even before we found out that the Russians had stolen the A-Bomb secrets ( with a lot of English help)? The early part of the film covers a little spy-craft that was interesting. Most of these spies seemed to have died on the job and weren't really very good at it? Actually the women seem to have been the best at it and most effective.