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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.
- (12K)
- Biography, Drama, War
- Ben Lewin
- 2018-06-22
During World War II, professional baseball catcher Moe Berg is recruited for a daring mission to prevent Nazi Germany from building an atomic bomb. Watch trailers & learn more.
- Ben Lewin
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.
This stranger-than-fiction espionage thriller brings to life the true story of Moe Berg, a professional baseball player who became a WWII spy. A Jewish, Princeton-educated, multilingual catcher for the Boston Red Sox, the enigmatic Berg (Paul Rudd) was already a man of mystery when the US government's wartime intelligence agency enlisted him to ...
The Catcher Was a Spy. Paul Rudd stars in this true-life thriller about a Boston Red Sox catcher-turned-WWII spy tasked with assassinating a Nazi atomic scientist. With Jeff Daniels, Paul Giamatti.
- 94 min
Available on Prime Video, iTunes. This gripping, stranger-than-fiction espionage thriller brings to life the incredible true story of Moe Berg, the professional baseball player who became a World War II spy.
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The Catcher was a Spy. With an ensemble cast, this gripping, espionage thriller brings to life the true story of Moe Berg a World War II spy. His mission: go behind enemy lines in Europe to assassinate the Nazi's chief nuclear scientist before the Germans develop an atomic bomb.
