A Compassionate Spy
Steve James2022-08-31
He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it.
6.6
102 min
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he learns the true nature of the weapon being designed, he fears the post-war risk of a nuclear holocaust and begins to pass significant information to the Soviet Union.
Cast
| Name | Character | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Theodore Hall | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Joan Hall | Self | Unowned |
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Joseph Albright | Self | Unowned |
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Marcia Kunstel | Self | Unowned |
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Daniel Axelrod | Self | Unowned |
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J. Michael Wright | Ted Hall | Unowned |
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Lucy Zukaitis | Joan Hall | Unowned |
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Nicolas Eastlund | Savy Sax | Unowned |
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Mickey O'Sullivan | FBI Agent McQueen | Unowned |
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Tom Goodwin | FBI Agent 3 | Unowned |
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Zach Twardowski | Ed Hall | Unowned |
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Olivia Piper | Young Ruthie | Unowned |
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Enzo Inalsingh | Sax baby | Unowned |
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Kate Marie Smith | Susan Sax | Unowned |
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Leslie Groves | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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J. Robert Oppenheimer | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Joseph E. Davies | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Walter Huston | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Ann Harding | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Manart Kippen | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Harry S. Truman | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Henry L. Stimson | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Joseph Stalin | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Paul Tibbets | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Julius Rosenberg | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Ethel Rosenberg | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |