A Compassionate Spy (2022)

6.2/10 102 min Documentary

Overview

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

Theodore Hall

Self (archive footage)

Mickey O'Sullivan

FBI Agent McQueen

Leslie Groves

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Walter Huston

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ann Harding

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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