Check out all of the posts tagged with "espionage".
James Garner gives an engaging lightweight turn as the lead character William Beddoes, an American businessman abroad on a work trip in Portugal, who gets confused with a British spy on the trail of lost diamonds, […]
Director George Roy Hill’s disappointing 1984 thriller The Little Drummer Girl stars Diane Keaton, whose performance as a naive pro-Palestinian American actress called Charlie involved in spying in the Arab-Israel conflict just about saves a […]
Alan Bennett’s sharply witty screenplay for An Englishman Abroad (1983) is taken from the actress Coral Browne’s anecdote about how she met notorious spy traitor Guy Burgess in an Old Vic theatre exchange tour of […]
Co-writer/ director Frank Tashlin’s 1967 industrial espionage spy spoof comedy thriller Caprice is set in the cosmetics world and stars Doris Day as top industrial designer businesswoman Patricia Foster, who, with the help of suave […]
Anna Neagle shines in her producer-director husband Herbert Wilcox’s 1950 British wartime drama Odette. Based on the book by Jerrard Tickell, there is a sterling tale of Resistance heroics in Nazi-occupied France in this stirring […]
Director Ralph Thomas’s 1969 comedy action adventure thriller Some Girls Do is the mostly tedious sequel to Deadlier than the Male, in which Richard Johnson returns as Sapper’s spy hero character Hugh Bulldog Drummond, who […]
Director Dick Clement’s 1968 spy comedy Otley is an amiable and fairly funny, if a bit clumsy and broad, Ealing Studios-style Sixties spoof thriller, eager to please in sending up James Bondage and swinging London. […]