The Thief
NOT A WORD IS SPOKEN!
Directed by Russell Rouse
Produced by Harry Popkin Productions, United Artists
A tense, visually sophisticated Cold War noir told entirely without dialogue, following a physicist's paranoid descent as he evades capture for espionage.
A chance accident causes a nuclear physicist, who's selling top secret material to the Russians, to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run.
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