Saturday, July 21, 2018

The Catcher Was A Spy: Little-known hero

Here's what we know about Moe Berg.
He earned an undergraduate degree from Princeton and a law degree from Columbia. 
He was a Major League catcher in the 1930s and early '40s.
He was a World War II spy.
He spoke nearly a dozen languages.
He might have been gay.

Now, the Movie Slut wants to know which of the above you think is most interesting.
Some reviewers chose to discuss the last one. To which MS says, "Oh Puh-leeze."

In this baseball/spy biopic Paul Rudd is the enigmatic brainiac who enlists with the US Office of Strategic Services (the precursor to the CIA), which tasked him to discover how close the Nazis were to making an atomic bomb. And, of yes, to commit murder if necessary.

It's a heck of a story that could have made a fantastic flick. Instead, it's just good enough not to be missed.

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