O.S.S.

Director: Irving Pichel

Overview

Set during WWII, this taut and suspenseful espionage outing chronicles the courage of a brand new cadre of specially trained American O.S.S. agents. The agents parachute into France to destroy the vital Corbett Mallon tunnel to stop the German invaders from shipping supplies to their troops.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/23/2016
UPC:	0025192139550
Original Release:	0000
Language:	English
Sales rank:	23,296

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Alan Ladd	John Martin
Geraldine Fitzgerald	Ellen Rogers
Patric Knowles	Commander Brady
Richard Benedict	Bernay
John Hoyt	Col. Meister
Gloria Saunders	Mary Kenny `Sparks'
Harold Vermilyea	Amadeus Braun
Don Beddoe	Gates
Onslow Stevens	Field
Gavin Muir	Col. Crawson
Egon Brecher	Marcel Aubert
Joseph Crehan	Gen. Donovan
Bobby Driscoll	Gerard
Richard Webb	Gates
Julia Dean	Mme. Prideaux
Crane Whitley	Arnheim
Leslie Denison	Lt. Col. Miles
Roberta Jonay	Gracie Archer
Georgie Billings	Actor,U.S. Soldier
Jean Ruth	Brady's Secretary
Frederick Voltz	Trainee
Lawson Houghton	Trainee
George J. Fannon	Trainee
Harlan Warde	Trainee
Fred Zendar	Trainee
Mme. Colombet	Old Frenchwoman,Old Frenchwoman
Paul Lees	Trainee
William Meader	Trainee
Albert Ruiz	Trainee
Charles Victor	Trainees
Catherine Craig	Williams' Secretary
Albert Van Antwerp	Guard
Frank Ferguson	Research Man,U.S. Soldier
Murray F. Yeats	Tall Man
Edward Harvey	Mr. Williams
Pat McVey	Plainclothesman,Actor
Tom Schamp	Plainclothesman
Walter Pietila	Mansion Attendant
Bob Wegner	Gateman
James Westerfield	Stout Man
Tom Stevenson	Instructor
Vern Anders	Sentry
Janna de Loos	Woman Refugee
Andre Charlot	French Importer
Archie Twitchell	Officer
Will Thunis	Young Man
George Sorel	Husky Refugee
Jean Del Val	Conductor
Frank Dae	Scientist
George Barton	Handyman
Jean Ransome	Elevator Operator
Dorothy Barrett	Brady's Secretary in London,British Pilot
Ed Kerr	Courier
Herbert Wyndham	Copilot
Anthony Marsh	British Pilot
James Craven	Jumpmaster
John Bogden	Assistant Jumpmaster
Carl Ekberg	German Soldier
Leo Schlesinger	German Soldier
Eric Steiner	German Soldier
Eddie Bauer	German Soldier
Walter Rode	German Soldier
Zane Megowan	German Soldier
Jack Sterling	German Soldier
Bob Templeton	German Soldier
Paul Stupin	German Soldier
Len Hendry	German Soldier
Holger Bendixen	German Sergeant
Frederick J. Waugh	British Noncom
Robert Cordell	Major at Airport Shack/Trainee
Jack Lambert	German Lieutenant
Monica Folts	Little Girl with Kitten
George Bruggeman	M.P. Noncom
Rene Dussaq	French Artillery Officer
John Maxwell	LaFevre
Albert Petit	Resistance Man
Paul Diamond	Resistance Man
Carmen Beretta	Resistance Woman
Tony Merlo	Reynal
Helen Chapman	Resistance Girl
Kathleen Terry	Operator Next to Kenny
Philip Ahlm	German Officer
Edmund Porada	German Sergeant Operator
John Dehner	German Radar Captain
Jon Gilbreath	German Radar Lieutenant
Henry Vroom	German Corporal
Peter Michael	German Noncom
Fred Kohler Jr.	Fireman
Jimmie Dundee	Sentry
Joseph Granby	Engineer
Edward Clark	French Waiter
Renee Randall	Cashier
Maj. Fred Darrell	Old Frenchman
Dorothy Adams	Claudette
John Harmon	Pierre
Fred Nurney	Major Courier
Frank Pulliam Jr.	B-25 Pilot
George Taylor	Gestapo Plainclothesman
Hans Moebus	Gestapo Man
Richard Elmore	German Army Private
Gene Garrick	Operator
Henry Guttman	German Major
Jerry James	Pilot
Byron Poindexter	Copilot
James Andrews	Radio Operator
Carl Saxe	S.S. Man
Roger Creed	S.S. Man
Carl Andre	Col. Hesiter's Aide
Jerome Alden	British Noncom
Billy Burt	Lieutenant J.G.
Billy Lechner	U.S. Soldier
Carl Russell	U.S. Soldier
Fred Datig Jr.	U.S. Soldier
Frank Chalfant	U.S. Soldier
Steven Strait	Actor
Karolina Wydra	Actor
Madison Lintz	Actor
Sandra Ellis Lafferty	Actor
Bob Penny	Actor
Chase Presley	Actor
April Billingsley	Actor
Sabyn Mayfield	Actor

Technical Credits

Richard Maibaum

Farciot Edouart	Special Effects
Gordon Jennings	Special Effects
Richard Maibaum	Producer,Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Done in the same vein as Fox's 13 Rue Madeleine, but in a somewhat more romantic and melodramatic manner, Irving Pichel's O.S.S. tries to tell the story of the Office of Strategic Services, the espionage arm of the federal government, which was a creation out of necessity for the prosecution of the Second World War. It's nicely paced overall and essentially breaks down into two sections, the opening in which we witness the training of a group of agents and get an account of what trainees have to unlearn to succeed -- and the second, in which Alan Ladd and Geraldine Fitzgerald's characters become the focus of a specific plotline. Pichel does well enough with the material at hand, although one wishes that Frank Tuttle had been given this movie to direct, to see what kind of sharp little edges he would have brought to the material.