Catcher Morris “Moe” Berg (Paul Rudd) played 15 years of professional baseball, winding up his career with the Boston Red Sox in 1939. A man of many mysteries, the journeyman athlete was a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School, read up to ten newspapers in a day, spo...
Strong speaks German throughout the entire film. In real life, he is fluent in German; his mother was an Austrian immigrant, and he studied at university in Munich. The entire third act of The Catcher Was a Spy is a intellectual game of cat and mouse between Rudd‘s Berg and Strong‘...
1.A third-string catcher became a first-rate spy This 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. A Jewish, a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School, he spoke ...
when done remarkably well — with the right precision of pathos and truth — such melodramas can resonate and overcome their soapy constraints. Director/co-writer Jake Scott (“Welcome to the Rileys”) oversees such a one withAmerican Woman, an authentic...
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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The Catcher Was a Spyis based upon the true story of Moe Berg (Paul Rudd), an unremarkable Major League Baseball player who had a second career as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA. While few would compare this movie to Christopher Nolan’sOppenheimer,...
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