Cloak and Dagger - Henry Thomas' OTHER 80s Classic
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- čas přidán 27. 04. 2024
- If you were a kid growing up in the '80s, one thing was true. Video games were the spawn of Satan. Okay, we know that isn't true. But our parents? Adults were terrified of your Atari and your Nintendo, and filmmakers made all sorts of movies that painted games in a negative light. In Wargames a nuclear war was damn near started! While there were plenty of films that understood the imagination and the creative spirit that video games could foster, such as Tron and The Last Starfighter for examples, there's also a film such as Cloak & Dagger, which goes to some really dark territory to teach a lesson to kids that, honestly, everyone could stand to learn.
Cloak and Dagger starred Henry Thomas. Y'know, the E.T. kid, who grew up to become the Suicide Kings dude and the Midnight Mass guy. He plays 11-year-old Davey, a lonely kid who retreats from his troubled life into an espionage video game called Cloak & Dagger. His father Hal is a military man who is gone for long stretches, and his mom is dead. So Davey is all alone most of the time. A true latchkey kid, his only real friend is his imaginary pal Jack Flack, an American spy who, like Davey's father, is played by the great comedian Dabney Coleman.
The decision to have Coleman pull double-duty on Cloak & Dagger was genius, for reasons that become clear later. The unkillable, unflappable Jack Flack manifests in the real world, which is convenient timing. Helping out a local video game dude, and look at this dude and what a stereotypical dork he resembles, Davey and his nosey neighbor friend Kim witness and FBI agent's murder. But before the guy dies, he hands them a Cloak & Dagger game with a secret microchip in it that others are willing to kill for. And kill they do, because people die all over the place in this grim grim adventure for kids. Starting with that poor video game dude, who was never given the chance to evolve past his stereotypical looks.
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I love CLOAK AND DAGGER. The old lady with the three fingers freaked me out as a kid.
That was gross 🤮
YEEESSSSSS!!! Me Too!
When the old lady takes her glove off in the car?? I loved this movie as a kid!
Maaaaaan this was the MOVIE growin up in the 80’s!! I watched it everytime it came on. Salute for dropping a vid about it!!
That movie had an edgy feel to it even for a kids movie
Saw this as a kid and loved it. Now that I live in San Antonio, I gotta watch it again!
One of my favorites because of all the AWESOME Atari references! Love that an Atari 5200 cartridge is the Mcguffin for the whole movie! ❤
Always enjoyed this as a double feature with ‘Gotcha!’
I love this film! My father took me to see it in the theater when I was ten years old. It was the summer of '84. The family rented a little cabin in Maine on Sabago Lake and on the weekend, my old man would take me into town to see a movie. That vacation not only did we see Cloak & Dagger, but Red Dawn, Tightrope and The Last Starfighter! Good times.
*The best times*
I was ten in the summer of '84 too. Friday nights at the drive in: Ghostbusters, Temple of Doom, Romancing the Stone, Dune, Buckaroo Bonsai. 40 years later I remember watching them. I remember what I was eating. I remember where I was in the car and whether my mom and little brother were asleep. Now I watch a movie and barely remember anything about it a few days later.
I remember seeing this at the cinema. I saw it twice.
I remember first watching this movie and over time feeling sad for the little boy because it starts making you think maybe he is crazy after all, the ending changes your mind and it becomes light hearted again
This was one of my childhood favorite movies. Haven't seen it for over 35 years.
The old lady scared the hell outta me as a kid. Will someone please pay my mortgage?
This movie is a underrated gem of the 1980s I'm glad this film is not been forgotten in time thanks to the Internet for re-introduce this film to a new audience and thanks boutique labels like Vinegar Syndrome for release this film on 4K and Blu ray
Cloak and Dagger is a underrated 80s classic i remember seeing a reference to the film in a Homestar Runner cartoon called The Show: Ween Edition when Bub is dressed as Jack Flack from the film this film really need more recognition to some people who never seen it before
I Highly Recommend to people who like video games films from the 1980s and Atari
Thank You Joblo for this video
I hope this video get more views of 1M because this film need to be rediscovered
You Guys Are Awesome
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Happy 40th anniversary to Cloak And Dagger
1984-2024
Make sure to bring back the walkie talkies.
One of my childhood favorites.
Thanks for showing "Cloak and Dagger" some love. I loved it when it first came out and the ending to this day still makes me cry like crazy.
"Mom, Dad Don't Leave me!!"
Brilliant thinking by Davey to get the Cop to stop the Russian agents.
I always loved this movie, shame that more people haven't heard of it. I also liked the double casting of Dabney Coleman as Jack Flack and Davey's dad, invoking "Peter Pan."
I couldn't even guess how many times I watched this movie as kid. When friends stayed over they always wanted to watch it. Absolute classic
Thankyou JoBlo for covering this fantastic kids film, brought back a lot of great memories as this was a favourite film for me as a kid, & as a kid I was a big fan of Henry Thomas after watching ET, & I watched every Henry Thomas film I could find in my local video rental store. Still a big Henry Thomas fan TBH! & I never realised until I had watched C&D a few times that Jack Flack & Daveys Father were played by the same actor!
This was one of my favorites as a kid! And it has held up really well.
Cloak and Dagger is such a great movie! great story with a great cast!
A great 80s classic. I showed Cloak & Dagger to my girlfriend recently, which I had on DVD (bundled with 'The Wizard'), since she never saw it before. She really liked it.
I love this movie, such a forgotten classic and so well made
Loved this movie as a kid, Classic 80's Kid Action Movie.........I'm surprised also this movie hasn't been remade yet.
Loved this movie as a kid!!! My mom rented it for me when I had the chicken pox and I watched it over and over and over. Good stuff, big guy😁
I saw this movie in theaters when I was a kid. I liked it.
Saw this with my dad.❤
Watched this in my 6th grade English class back in 1995
No idea why she had us watch this, but me and my classmates all loved it
Dabney Coleman was everywhere in the '80s. I first noticed him in 9to5
Can’t tell u how much I loved this back as a little kid.. so much that a decade ago when I was in San Antonio I had to visit the film location like the boardwalk and Alamo
I have absolutely been waiting for this one. This movie was on cable over and over again and for those of us with daddy issues it found a very special place. Jack Flack always escapes!
Watched this movie too many times on my VHS, still a good
Thanks to an excellent 4K Blu-ray edition I got to see this gem. A thriller for kids? Nothing like this could be made now. So good and so tense despite being geared at 10 year olds.
LOVE this movie. So good.
I watched this many times when I was a kid.
OUTSTANDING WORK my friend and Thank You!!!!
As a kid I remember this was on HBO all the time in the 80s. I definitely love this movie
I remember that movie. Pretty violent for a kid's movie, and I loved it!
I loved this movie as a kid and yes, the scariest part was when Davey finds out the truth regarding the kindly old couple at the Alamo.
I was literally trying to remember this movie like two weeks ago. Weird. Thanks!
I love this film so much. Dabny is the best.
I love "Cloak & Dagger".
This movie is a classic and was filmed in San Antonio
This classic needs a Blu Ray release
Vinegar Syndrome has a two-disc UHD/BluRay release of it. You can't get the BluRay alone, though.
My dad took me to see this when I was a kid
I would love to see a sequel of this with an adult Hery Thomas. With the advances in technology I would love to see where this kid ends up.
I have this movie on DVD and I loved it as a kid. 👍
A deceptively deep & smart kids flick. If Louis Mallé had made the exact same film, it would be in the Criterion collection. _Cloak & Dagger_ is among the best films about coming of age from fantasy to maturity ever made. I remember it being a huge cult favorite as a kid when released.
I'm not sure how I'd feel about this film as an adult but as a kid, I always walked away feeling uneasy. "Do I want to be depressed today? Let me load up Cloak & Dagger."
Dabney Coleman was also in one of my fave forgotten Dan Aykroyd movies, Dragnet. Along with the guy from Superman 2.
I was an 80s kid but never saw this one. Interesting.
This was one of those movies that would be on all the time when we would get a free month of cable. I always liked it and watched it several times, but it always made me feel this weird existential dread, kind of like Time Bandits, which also was weirdly unsettling.
When I was a kid we had this movie on VHS. We recorded a lot of great movies off of Showtime and HBO. We had a great collection of the 190 min blank tapes. Labeled with like three movies on each. This movie was actually pretty violent as a child. It wasn't a children's movie definitely. But we loved it and watched the shit out of it. What a damn fun movie. Classic!! Was that William Forsyth BTW as that video game geek who definitely gets smoked quickly.
It's him. Great character actor as well.
I completely forgot about this movie
Love this movie
this was one of my favorites as a kid. i still remember having nightmares about hiding on the floor of a car that was being driven by a bad guy. and we i don't think anyone gets the credit they're due on this movie: both Davey and his partner Kim were great and William Forsythe was so good as the 'Nerd' killed just for helping out some silly kids that he knew.
Im glad everyone has the same fond memories of this movie that I do. I hope you enjoyed the video!
Loved it 💋
Definitely an under-rated movie from tbe 80s.
I wore out the VHS tape as a kid. Had a friend who always mispronounced the name of the movie calling it Black and Decker. Now every time I see a Black and Decker tool I think of the movie.
😂
😁I didn't pick up on Jack looking like Davey's dad, as a kid.
Great movie and it's really well written that adults can enjoy it too, it must have had a very limited theatrical release because I never saw it until VHS and then I recorded it off The Movie Channel along with another underrated classic Dreamscape.
Very good video. Dabney Colman excels! 🙂
Great movie!
This was the first movie ever recorded on our brand new VCR, and I watched it too many times to count!
I remember this movie, I probably saw it on tape. can't remember.
This is one of the most severely underrated '80s flicks, i've ever come across!! It's WAY overdue for a special edition blu ray release!!! Luckily, i have it on dvd. No special features, of course.
Vinegar Syndrome released a 4K special edition, check out their website
They already released a great 4k. You can get it right now.
Cloak and Dagger was a great film.
Hell yeah.
Vinegar Syndrome's UHD release of this made my year... 🤣
William Forsythe was the computer geek!
I agree with you.
"Awful good cereal flakes, Ms.McDunnough!"
Lol! I forgot Mr Magoo was in it too!!
Hey now that "Nerd" was William Forsythe as Morris
I believe that no remake can be done, until the game also gets a remake; done properly.
Holds up. This was one of my faves as a kid. Jack Flack is so clearly not a role model and I love how they make it clear while still reminding you why a kid would get that mixed up
Us tale end Gen X and early '80s Babies got some awesome 'kid with an imaginary friend/spirit' films & TV, such as *_Drop Dead Fred, Sidekicks, The Last Electric Knight/Sidekicks, Cloak & Dagger._*
*_And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird_* was a good one too, but the dad's spirit was actually in the robot and many folks knew.
2:05: The one and only William Forsyth
Crazy he didn’t mention that
I´ve got a motherfucking spaceship...
Jack Flack always escapes
I like that you used an Inside of You clip for Tom Holland
Great film!
But nope! As an eleven year old myself when I first saw it on VHS, I was angry David hesitated to kill Rice.
I stand by it because I felt that way still in my 20s, 30s and today at age 49!
There’s zero value in learning to NOT ferociously defend yourself!
A super cool espionage companion to The Last Starfighter.
Ahhh….to go back again! 🙂
Now you got to cover DYARL, Flight of the Navigator and Last Starfighter
Taika Waititi I see your inspiration!😮👀👀
I was SOOOO disappointed that an ATARI port of the actual video game never happened
That "nerd" is William Forsythe.
The “childhood endangerment” genre was dead for a while, but yeah, it’s prime for a remake now!
I love Dabney Coleman. Cloak and Dagger was good but him in 9 to 5 was the funniest thing ever.
Cloak & Dagger (1984) Rulez✊🏻!
I thought I saw this in a fever dream cause I remembered the movie but not the name
yes 13th! finally!
Whatabout "Frog Dreaming"?
I always wanted a Jack Flack action figure.
Loved this movie when i was a kid.
I dont think it would work today, mainly b/c what character would they create that wasn't as bad ass as the characters we have now? Master Chief, Solid Snake, Marcus Fenix to name a few. Unless they juat randomly made up somebody from COD.
Dabney Coleman at his best!
Is this… David… G… Osborne?
GOOD.
Do Gotcha! Next?
Flight of the navigator is 💯...wait a better same looking kid
Dollarhyde is in this for crying out loud
Was anyone else completely bummed out when they announced a "Cloak & Dagger" series, and it turned out to be about some super heroes? Because I was
KC RULES #1
oh ya the girl was hilarious
Kimmy? She was adorable and hilarious all at once.