The real story of Moe Berg is fascinating, in and of itself. An extremely intelligent man from a modest background. Then he went on to do great things in the service of America. But this version strikes one loud, wrong note. There is no evidence that Moe Berg was gay. In his candid autobiography he never says a word. None. Yet this movie, hovering on PC, chooses to invent this fiction and give it prominence. A shame. What should have been emphasized more was that he was Jewish and suffered extreme prejudice in his early life, then well into adulthood. That he did talk about. The movie mostly glosses over that. As for whether he would have shot Werner Heisenberg, no one really knows. The best account is in Thomas Power's book, Heisenberg's War. Heisenberg was brilliant. And a patriotic German. Not a Nazi. But because so many of the other brilliant German physicists had been driven out of the country, Heisenberg had no team to work on an atomic bomb. He likely was a year or more from developing the bomb for Germany. By that time the Third Reich had been consigned to the trash heap of history.
Review of The Catcher Was a Spy
