The Defector (film)
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Director Raoul Levy Duration Country FranceWest Germany | 5.8/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Thriller Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date October 20, 1966 (1966-10-20) (Germany)November 16, 1966 (1966-11-16) (United States)November 24, 1967 (1967-11-24) (Sweden)May 17, 1968 (1968-05-17) (Finland) Cast (James Bower), (Frieda), (Ingrid), (Peter Heinzmann), (Agent Adam), (Orlovsky) Similar movies The Living Daylights , The Tunnel , The Lives of Others , The Comancheros , Laser Mission , Serena and the Ratts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Defector is a 1966 thriller film, starring Montgomery Clift, Roddy McDowall and Macha Meril. It was directed by Belgian director/producer Raoul Lévy and based on the 1965 novel L'espion by Paul Thomas.
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Plot
Professor Bower, an American physicist, is effectively blackmailed by a shady CIA agent named Adams to help the CIA obtain secret microfilm from a defecting Russian scientist. The reluctant Bower travels to East Germany undercover as an antiques collector where he encounters Heinzmann, an East German fellow physicist, who is also a secret agent. Heinzmann is aware of Bower's meeting with Adams and his intention to steal the microfilm, but their mutual respect for one another's tactics complicate the proceedings.
Cast
Actress Leslie Caron gave up her role in the film shortly before filming began in Munich in March 1966.
Critics' response
Critics were generally favorable to the film, but some were more specific, as Bosley Crowther of the New York Times said, "Mr. Clift is apt in this his last film — lonely, bewildered, courageous - it's just too bad it doesn't quite ring the bell."
References
The Defector (film) WikipediaThe Defector (film) IMDb The Defector (film) themoviedb.org