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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ***** (1979, Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate, George Sewell, Beryl Reid) – Classic Movie Review 9606
Director John Irvin’s 1979 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the beautifully acted, meticulously organised TV version of the John le Carré novel about retired espionage agent George Smiley’s search for a mole at the heart of […]
Innocent Bystanders ** (1972, Stanley Baker, Geraldine Chaplin, Donald Pleasence, Dana Andrews, Sue Lloyd, Derren Nesbitt) – Classic Movie Review 8501
Donald Pleasence and Dana Andrews play the heads of British and US intelligence, and Stanley Baker plays the top British spy-in-action, in director Peter Collinson’s 1972 Innocent Bystanders, a rather feeble secret agent thriller about […]
Dark Journey **** (1937, Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner, Anthony Bushell, Ursula Jeans, Eliot Makeham, Austin Trevor) – Classic Movie Review 7806
Sparkling performances from the sleek and sexy team of Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt light up producer-director Victor Saville’s 1937 thriller Dark Journey [The Anxious Years], an involvingly dark and complex British espionage movie set […]
The High Bright Sun [McGuire, Go Home!] ** (1965, Dirk Bogarde, George Chakiris, Susan Strasberg) – Classic Movie Review 6807
Dirk Bogarde is on commanding form in director Ralph Thomas’s otherwise ordinary 1965 adventure movie as Major McGuire, an intelligence officer in the British Army occupying Cyprus in the Fifties (it is 1957) during Cyprus’s war […]
Betrayed ** (1954, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature, Louis Calhern, O E Hasse) – Classic Movie Review 6,665
MGM’s creakily old-fashioned 1954 romantic spy drama film Betrayed stars Clark Gable as a wartime Dutch spy boss who recruits Carla Van Oven (Lana Turner) to liaise with dashing Resistance leader The Scarf (Victor Mature). […]
The Russia House **½ (1990, Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 6662
Director Fred Schepisi’s 1990 The Russia House stars Sean Connery, who is back in the USSR as Barley Blair, romancing Russian woman Katya (an unlikely Michelle Pfeiffer), in this intriguing, picturesque and well-acted if clunky and […]
The MacKintosh Man *** (1973, Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Ian Bannen, Nigel Patrick, Michael Hordern, Peter Vaughan, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 6,037
Paul Newman stars as an undercover government agent hired to trap a spying British Member of Parliament (James Mason), in director John Huston’s quick-paced 1973 Cold War spy thriller film The MacKintosh Man. Paul Newman […]