Academy Awards, USA 1953
| Nominee Oscar | Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Herschel Burke Gilbert |
United Artists
Directed by Russell Rouse
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Image Entertainment)
Ray Milland is a compromised nuclear physicist working in Washington DC. He snaps photos of top secret documents and passes them on to a foreign government via a complex series of public drops and hand-offs. When one of the couriers is killed in an accident, the photos are discovered and the FBI steps in to investigate his lab. He is ordered to hide out in New York City, but is tailed to the Empire State Building and has a memorable encounter at the very top of the building. Later, his conscience gets the most of him and he turns himself in to the FBI. Utilizes a gimmick of no dialogue, but still manages to be quite tense. Milland is fantastic.
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