The Defector

This might have made a fair TV movie if it hadn't been so confused and mushy. However, the addition of Clift took it out of the TV market and put it upscale. It didn't help. Clift looks terrible in the film. (He died shortly after finishing the movie). Clift is an American scientist recruited by McDowall to spy for the CIA while on vacation in East Germany. Clift's job is to contact Messemer, a Jewish doctor, and bring back a piece of microfilm that has been smuggled out of Russia by a defecting Soviet scientist. Clift is soon uncovered by Kruger, an OGPU (now KGB) agent determined to stop Clift from getting the film across the border. Kruger also wants to "turn" C...