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The 1957 British film The Man in the Road, starring Derek Farr, Ella Raines, Donald Wolfit, is a typical 1950s ‘red menace’ Cold War espionage thriller. Director Lance Comfort’s 1957 British black and white thriller […]
Director John Schlesinger’s 1993 German/ UK co-production drama film The Innocent has a good cast and an interesting story to tell, but it is a fumbled Cold War thriller with an unconvincing screenplay by Ian […]
‘Terror! Vice! Violence! He stopped at nothing!’ James Mason stars as the mystery man in the middle of Carol Reed’s atmospheric Fifties Cold War film noir espionage thriller/ crime drama The Man Between (1953), based […]
Director Delbert Mann’s involving, timely 1963 military adventure drama A Gathering of Eagles stars Rock Hudson as US Air Force Colonel Jim Caldwell, the man the flying boys love to hate when he attempts to […]
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 […]
Director John Badham‘s 1983 thriller WarGames is a bang on target sci-fi fantasy adventure starring Matthew Broderick as teenage wiz kid David Lightman, who unwittingly taps his home computer into a top secret United States military super-computer […]
Director Julien Duvivier’s 1953 French-Italian comedy film The Return of Don Camillo [Il ritorno di Don Camillo] [Le retour de Don Camillo] brings back Fernandel and Gino Cervi happily to the screen. Following the 1952 […]