A Compassionate Spy
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Teenage physicist Ted Hall joins the Manhattan Project and, fearing a post-war nuclear holocaust, secretly passes bomb secrets to the Soviet Union.
Why watch: The Oscar-nominated director of Hoop Dreams turns to Cold War espionage.
Cast
Theodore Hall as Self (archive footage)
Joan Hall as Self
Joseph Albright as Self
Marcia Kunstel as Self
Daniel Axelrod as Self
J. Michael Wright as Ted Hall
Lucy Zukaitis as Joan Hall
Nicolas Eastlund as Savy Sax
Mickey O'Sullivan as FBI Agent McQueen
Tom Goodwin as FBI Agent 3
Zach Twardowski as Ed Hall
Olivia Piper as Young Ruthie
Enzo Inalsingh as Sax baby
Kate Marie Smith as Susan Sax
Leslie Groves as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Crew
Steve James — Director
Steve James — Writer
Tom Bergmann — Director of Photography
Steve James — Editor
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