The Thief (1952 film)
The Thief is a 1952 American Cold War film noir spy film, directed by Russell Rouse and starring Ray Milland. It's the third in a series of six classic film noir productions scripted by Rouse and his writing partner Clarence Greene. The film is unusual because there is no principal actor dialogue spoken.
The principal characters are not "fleshed-out", as they might be in a more conventional film, as this film is more about "trade-craft", not as much about the principal characters and their respective personalities. Not withstanding that observation, the film certainly depends upon the exceptionally strong dramatic performance by Ray Milland, and the equally strong music performance by composer/conductor Herschel Burke Gilbert. The film is nearly fully orchestrated by Gilbert.
Plot
Ray Milland plays Dr. Allan Fields, a nuclear physicist who works for the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington, D.C.. But Fields is also a spy working for an unnamed foreign power.
Through an elaborate series of plans and devices, "tradecraft", Fields, as ordered by his "case officer", takes sets of photos of top-secret documents, using a Minox camera, and passes these through a vast network of foreign-power "couriers" to New York City, and thereafter overseas to an enemy country (implied by the final courier's plane's destination of "Cairo", certainly a thinly-veiled reference to "the East", without actually naming the Soviet Union). The latest canister of microfilm which Fields sends out is intercepted by authorities after a courier is killed in a freak traffic accident in Manhattan, with the undeveloped microfilm canister in his hand. The FBI develops the microfilm, analyzes its contents and constructs a list of probable suspects within the AEC, one of whom is the "custodian" of the subject document, and who is initially interrogated.
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by: The BeltonesI stole a kiss from the prettiest girl in town
I stole a kiss from the prettiest girl in town
Said she was waiting on her old man
And I probably shouldn€™t hang around
But I stole a kiss from the prettiest girl in town
I see her face nearly every place I go
See her pretty sweet lips no matter where I go
I thought my heart was made of stone cold granite
But I guess it just goes to show
I see her face nearly every place I go
I got a feeling that she€™s gonna lose that man
Got a sneaky feeling that she€™s gonna drop that man
If I could get her to make some time
I€™d give her all the love I can
I got a feeling that she€™s gonna lose that man
I got a date with the prettiest girl in town
I got a date with the prettiest girl in town
I know someday she€™ll break my heart
And I€™ll be wearing the losers crown
But I got a date with the prettiest girl in town
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