In the Alan Ladd movie OSS It stands for Office Strategic Service.
In this movie it stands for O Seven Seven, How come ?
The way I understood this was that the Team was on Mission # 77 and that is why they were known as "O" Seven Seven, but I would have to see it again to make sure. If you are correct, and the OSS was known by that name, it would put whole new spin on James Bond having the 007 prefix.
shareThis film, along with the Alan Ladd movie, and Gary Cooper in CLOAK AND DAGGER formed a trio of immediate postwar pictures that dramatized and celebrated the work of the OSS during WW2. It seemed to be an emerging genre all its own, but then -- suddenly no more, and these type of pictures died a-borning.
The reason -- when the wartime OSS became the postwar CIA and the Cold War began, the file drawers were slammed shut on actual cases, and governmental cooperation extended to Hollywood ceased. We were not about to give away our secret operations to friendly public or unfriendly enemy alike.
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In 1957 there was a TV series called "O.S.S", starring Ron Randell, which only ran for one season (further details elsewhere on this site). How accurate the stories were isn't clear, but one of the executive producers, William Elisal, was ex OSS. The British equivalent, by the way, was the SOE, Special Operations Executive.
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I think they're still keeping things from us going back to the Civil War
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They use Operation 77 as the makers of the film were not allowed to mention OSS as the film was made just after the war
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