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Posts Tagged "cold war"
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The Bedford Incident ***** (1965, Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Eric Portman, Wally Cox, Martin Balsam) – Classic Movie Review 7078
Producer-director James B Harris’s 1965 thriller The Bedford Incident stars Richard Widmark in one of his most satisfying roles as US Naval destroyer commander Captain Eric Finlander, skipper of the American destroyer USS Bedford, who […]
The Kremlin Letter ** (1970, George Sanders, Richard Boone, Orson Welles, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow, Patrick O’Neal, Ronald Radd, Dean Jagger, Nigel Green, Barbara Parkins, Lila Kedrova) – Classic Movie Review 6507
John Huston’s 1970 Cold War spy thriller film The Kremlin Letter is an endearing farrago of a film from a legendary top-quality film-maker who should have been able to sort this mess out. Co-writer/ co-producer/ […]
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ** (2011, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Kathy Burke, Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Graham, Mark Strong) – Classic Movie Review 6111
Director Tomas Alfredson’s cinema remake of the brilliant 1979 Alec Guinness TV mini-series is an adequate watch but plodding, clunky and rushed, with the pacing and atmosphere all wrong. It lacks the needed high level […]
Atomic Blonde *** (2017, Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Toby Jones, Bill Skarsgård, Eddie Marsan, Sofia Boutella) – Movie Review
Actor, stuntman, writer, producer, stunt coordinator and film director David Leitch was a stunt double for Brad Pitt five times and twice for Jean-Claude Van Damme. His breakthrough came directing some scenes in John Wick […]
The Whistle Blower *** (1986, Michael Caine, James Fox, Nigel Havers, John Gielgud, Felicity Dean, Barry Foster) – Classic Movie Review 5532
Director Simon Langton’s 1986 British thriller The Whistle Blower tells a reasonably engrossing, old-fashioned spy story. It is notable as the only major theatrical feature film featuring the British Intelligence agency GCHQ and for its location […]
The Quiller Memorandum **** (1966, George Segal, Max von Sydow, Alec Guinness, Senta Berger, George Sanders, Robert Helpmann) – Classic Movie Review 5129
Director Michael Anderson’s excellent, engrossing and exciting 1966 British espionage thriller The Quiller Memorandum stars George Segal as American spy Quiller, who is sent to West Berlin by the British Secret Service to investigate a […]
Scorpio **** (1972, Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, John Colicos, Gayle Hunnicutt, J D Cannon) – Classic Movie Review 5,061
The 1972 spy film Scorpio is a smoothly twisting Cold War spy game tale, starring Burt Lancaster as CIA agent Gerald Cross, who is suspected of double-dealing and is being hounded by the freelance […]