‘The Catcher Was a Spy’ — Friday Night Feature at Darien Library

Darien Library presents The Catcher Was a Spy, in two showings as part of the library’s Friday Night Feature series, shown for free in the Community Room.

The movie is about a major league baseball catcher who becomes a spy during World War II and tries to stop Germany from making an atomic bomb. Based on a true story.

(2018) Starring Paul Rudd, Mark Strong, Sienna Miller, Jeff Daniels, Guy Pearce; Rated R for some sexuality, violence and language; 93 minutes; Presented with captions for the hearing impaired.

The movie will be shown in the Darien Library from 6:30 to 8:15 p.m. and from 8:30 to 10:15 p.m., Friday, Oct. 19. There’s never any charge for a Friday Night Feature at the library.

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See also:

• New York Times review: “‘The Catcher Was a Spy’ Carries a Peculiar History Lesson” (June 21)
• “Who Was Moe Berg? A Spy, a Big-League Catcher and an Enigma” (New York Times, June 21)
• New York Times review of Nicholas Dawidoff’s 1994 biography, “The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg”
• Currently there’s an exhibit about Moe Berg at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
• Plenty of short videos about Moe Berg on Youtube