Montgomery Cliff (in his last role) plays James Bower, an American physicist visiting West Germany who's recruited by a shady CIA agent, named Adam, to help them with the defection of a Russian scientist. But an East German secret agent, named Peter Heinzeman, learns of Bower's meeting with Adam and threatens Bower to mind his own business, while Bower learns of a back story to all this involving stolen microfilm that each side wants.... (Full plot summary below)
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Montgomery Cliff (in his last role) plays James Bower, an American physicist visiting West Germany who's recruited by a shady CIA agent, named Adam, to help them with the defection of a Russian scientist. But an East German secret agent, named Peter Heinzeman, learns of Bower's meeting with Adam and threatens Bower to mind his own business, while Bower learns of a back story to all this involving stolen microfilm that each side wants.
Leave your thoughts about The Defector.
| Cleveland PressTony MastroianniThere is more than one twist at the end of this movie and one particularly subtle and surprising one at the very end. Watch for it. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThe last film from the pale looking Montgomery Clift. |
| User ReviewJames CA must see for Montgomery Clift fans. It was his final movie! |
| User ReviewRoger JGood plot, good scenery, but oddly disconnected production. |
| User ReviewPanayiota KThis should be a good film, but it lacks any verve until the final few scenes and the major theme of the political side of being a spy just doesn't cut it as a storyline. |
