The Thief (1952 film)

The Thief is a 1952 American blackandwhite Cold War film noir spy film, directed by Russell Rouse and starring Ray Milland. Its the third in a series of six classic film noir productions scripted by Rouse and his writing partner Clarence Greene. The film is unusual because there is no principal actor dialogue spoken.

Ray Milland plays Dr. Allan Fields, a nuclear physicist who works for the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington, D.C.. But Fields is also a spy working for an unnamed foreign power.Through an elaborate series of plans and devices, tradecraft, Fields, as ordered by his case officer, takes sets of photos of topsecret documents, using a Minox camera, and passes these through a vast network of foreignpower couriers to New York City, and thereafter overseas to an enemy country implied by the final couriers planes destination of Cairo, certainly a thinlyveiled reference to the East, without actually naming the Soviet Union. The latest canister of microfilm which Fields sends out is intercepted by authorities after a courier is killed in a freak traffic accident in Manhattan, with the undeveloped microfilm canister in his hand. The FBI develops the microfilm, analyzes its contents and constructs a list of probable suspects within the AEC, one of whom is the custodian of the subject document, and who is initially interrogated. ........

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