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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.
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Jun 22, 2018 · A biographical drama about Moe Berg, a former baseball player who became a spy for the US government during World War II. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Ben Lewin
- 2018-06-22
Jun 22, 2018 · A biographical drama about Morris Berg, a baseball player turned spy who was tasked with assassinating a German physicist during World War II. The film explores Berg's mysterious personality and his espionage missions, but fails to capture his complexity and charisma.
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A biographical thriller about Moe Berg, a baseball player and a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Critics and audiences are divided on the film's quality, with mixed ratings and reviews.
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- Paul Rudd
The Catcher Was a Spy. The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg is a 1994 biography written by Nicholas Dawidoff about a major league baseball player who also worked for the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. [1] Moe Berg, the subject of the book, was an enigmatic person who hid much ...
- Nicholas Dawidoff
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- 1994
- 1994
Paul Rudd stars as Moe Berg, a baseball player who becomes a spy during World War II. He tries to stop Nazi Germany from developing an atomic bomb in this thriller based on a true story.
Jun 21, 2018 · “The Catcher Was a Spy” is a character drama and an espionage thriller with a premise so peculiar that a fiction writer would be hard pressed to contrive it. As it happens, the story line is ...
