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THE DEFECTOR is, overall, an intelligent - if not showy - film, and although not terribly remarkable otherwise, definitely worthwhile for any Montgomery Clift devotee. 11 out of 11 found this helpful.
The Defector is a 1966 thriller film starring Montgomery Clift, Hardy Krüger, Roddy McDowall and Macha Méril. It was directed and co-written by Belgian director/producer Raoul Lévy and based on the 1965 novel L'espion ( The Spy ) by Paul Thomas.
A U.S. scientist (Montgomery Clift) spies for a CIA agent (Roddy McDowall) in East Germany; a Soviet agent (Hardy Kruger) tries to get him to defect.
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- Raoul Lévy
- Mystery & Thriller
- Montgomery Clift
With Montgomery Clift, Hardy Krüger, Macha Méril, David Opatoshu. An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Raoul Lévy
- 1966-11-16
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Ruth Batchelor Los Angeles Free Press. The film may be outdated now, but it's worth seeing Clift at the end of his career. Full Review | Dec 6, 2019....
An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.
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Defector, The (1966) -- (Movie Ciip) You Will Tell Me American scientist Bower (Montgomery Clift), recruited for a CIA mission, in Leipzig, in his first meeting with his canny East German antagonist Heinzmann (Hardy Kruger), denying plans to meet a defecting Russian scientist, in The Defector, 1966.
