Master Spy

Murray is a Russian scientist who defects to England and is assigned a top-secret job with a government nuclear-research lab. He's actually a Russian agent, however, and passes information to Wheatley, a wealthy landowner who sends the goods to Moscow. Lab assistant Thorburn catches on, but it turns out that Murray is really a British spy passing phony information to traitor Wheatley. Murray goes through the motions of a trial so that he can be sent back to Moscow, where he will be a mole for the British. All this maneuvering leaves the audience with a nagging question: if Murray was an Englishman working as a spy in Russia in the first place, why the elaborate pla...