The Thief 1952 Screenplay by Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse and directed by Russell Rouse. A spy thriller with no dialog. It follows Ray Milland's decent into despair.
Ray Milland is a nuclear physicist who's selling secrets to some foreign agents. We spend a good bit of time with him as he goes about his spying duties. Ray grows more and more worried and apprehensive after an agent in the ring is killed and the microfilm recovered. He's moved to a safe house and given a ticket on a ship out of the country. He kills an FBI agent while collecting some money and a fake passport. Life isn't going good for Ray, he should have left the spying to professionals.
It's kind of interesting and you can infer most of what's going on by everyone's actions. Occasionally some info is passed on via some gimmick, like a telegram. Ray works his face a lot, watching that helps pass some of the time but it is a bit pokey. It looks and sounds good and it wasn't hard to get through. Nice interesting change.
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