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Director Taylor Hackford’s 1985 movie White Nights is a daft but entertaining chase-dance drama, a peculiar hybrid of musical and thriller, giving good chances to players difficult to cast. Mikhail Baryshnikov charismatically plays a Russian […]
Director André De Toth’s 1960 Man on a String [Confessions of a Counterspy] stars Ernest Borgnine in a Hollywood-ised biography of Russian double agent/ counterspy Boris Morros. Borgnine plays him as Boris Mitrov, a character loosely […]
Director Rouben Mamoulian’s 1957 Silk Stockings is a smart and attractive musical remake of Greta Garbo’s 1939 comedy Ninotchka, this time with Fred Astaire at his effortless best in his last big MGM musical, and […]
Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier, the stars of the 1972 Sleuth, reunited for director Terence Young’s disastrously disappointing 1984 British double agent spy thriller The Jigsaw Man, which was afflicted by money problems and halted […]
Michael Caine returns for his second spy thriller in the Sixties Harry Palmer film trilogy, with Bond director Guy Hamilton at the helm, in 1966’s Funeral in Berlin. Michael Caine returns for his second spy […]
Angelina Jolie does her action heroine thing again as CIA agent Evelyn Salt, who goes on the run after a defecting Soviet spy accuses her of being a Russian agent about to kill the Russian […]
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