Cloak and Dagger

I’m not quite sure that Fritz Lang understood the spy genre. The best spy movie he ever made was the first third of Woman in the Moon, and he’d made several other outright spy adventures that never really grabbed my interest like the pair of films in the unnaturally shortened The Spiders serials and, of course, Spies. Cloak and Dagger falls into the tradition of his spy films in feeling too loose and unfocused to really thrill. It’s not a complete slog, it begins and ends quite well while th...