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The Catcher Was a Spy is a 2018 American war film directed by Ben Lewin and written by Robert Rodat, based on the book of the same name by Nicholas Dawidoff. It stars Paul Rudd as Moe Berg, a former baseball player who joined the war effort during World War II and participated in espionage for the U.S. Government.
Jun 22, 2018 · This film from director Ben Lewin and writer Robert Rodat ("Saving Private Ryan") is biographical drama about Morris "Moe" Berg, an unremarkable major league catcher who went on to work for Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, during World War II.
Synopsis. Moe Berg (Paul Rudd), a 15-year baseball veteran, joins the war effort as a spy to beat Nazi Germany in the race to build the first atomic bomb. In 1938, Germans split the atom for the first time and the race for the bomb is on.
Jun 22, 2018 · The Catcher Was a Spy: Directed by Ben Lewin. With Paul Rudd, Pierfrancesco Favino, Tom Wilkinson, Connie Nielsen. Former Major League Baseball player Moe Berg goes undercover in World War II Europe for the Office of Strategic Services.
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- Biography, Drama, War
- Ben Lewin
- 2018-06-22
Jan 31, 2018 · In 1944, the U.S. government asked a multilingual Jewish baseball player to travel through enemy lines in Italy, make his way to Zurich and assassinate the head of Germany’s atomic-bomb program ...
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Jun 21, 2018 · This movie, directed by Ben Lewin from a Robert Rodat script (one adapted from Nicholas Dawidoff’s fascinating 1994 biography of Berg), relishes Berg’s compulsion to remain an enigma even to...
Major League Baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.
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