Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within Movie Review 1998

Hutton stars as Aldrich Ames, a longtime, second-rate CIA employee with an expensive Colombian-born second wife, Rosario (Pena), and a lot of debts. So Ames turns weasel and begins to sell secrets to the Russians in the mid-'80s, which resulted in the deaths of at least 10 agents. Plowright is the CIA analyst in charge of plugging the leak. Both Ames' were arrested and sent to prison in 1994; Rosario was released in 1999 and returned to Bogota.

Distribution

Paramount Home Video, 5555 Melrose Ave., 5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038, Phone: (323)956-5000, URL: http://www.paramount.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS
Running time 97 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

True Stories, Cold War Spies, CIA/NSA

Screenplay

Michael Burton

Cast

Timothy Hutton, Joan Plowright, Elizabeth Pena, Eugene Lipinski, C. David Johnson

Cinematography

Walter McGill

Director

John MacKenzie

Producer

Showtime Networks