Alfred L. Werker | 1hr. 38min. | 1952
The screenplay was inspired by a May 1952 Reader’s Digest article by J. Edgar Hoover entitled “The Crime of the Century: The Case of the A-Bomb Spies.” The article covers the case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for treason. Federal agent Belden (George Murphy) is assigned to locate the communist mastermind behind the leak, and to trace all avenues of informational access utilized by the Communists. Professor Albert Kafer (Finlay Currie) a scientist who is being blackmailed by the Reds into cooperating with them, while Alexi Laschenkov (Karel Stepanek) is the top Eastern-Bloc spy.