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The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk (1958) Plot Summary Explained

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1958 · 97 mins · English
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Directed by
Herbert Wilcox
Starring
Anthony Quayle, John Le Mesurier, John Welsh, Patrick Allen, Leonard Sachs, John Paul

American physicist Dr. Frank Smith is summoned to Britain to assist the CIA in debriefing a defecting scientist from the Eastern Bloc. His involvement provokes Soviet agents, who frame him for murder, plunging him into a deadly espionage trap as Cold War tensions rise.

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