Shining Through is a 1992 World War II film drama, directed and written by David Seltzer and starring Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith. Although based on the novel of the same name by Susan Isaacs, the film's plot is considerably different. The original music score was composed by Michael Kamen. The film's tagline is: "He needed to trust her with his secret. She had to trust him with her life."
In 1940, before the United States has entered th...
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Shining Through is a 1992 World War II film drama, directed and written by David Seltzer and starring Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith. Although based on the novel of the same name by Susan Isaacs, the film's plot is considerably different. The original music score was composed by Michael Kamen. The film's tagline is: "He needed to trust her with his secret. She had to trust him with her life."
In 1940, before the United States has entered the war, Linda Voss (Melanie Griffith), a young woman of Irish/German Jewish parentage living in Queens, New York, begins a new job as a secretary with a New York law firm. Because of her German language skills, she becomes a bilingual assistant and translator to Ed Leland (Michael Douglas), a humourless attorney at law.
Linda increasingly suspects that Ed's activity is more than standard legal work. She is proved right when, after America officially joins forces with the Allies, he emerges as an officer in the OSS with the rank of colonel. She...
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