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‘The most extraordinary venture a man ever faced… the most suspenseful story ever filmed – because it is REAL!’ Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1937 Lancer Spy is a sharp and entertaining World War One spy thriller, […]
Michael Caine returns as Len Deighton’s fictional spy Harry Palmer in the enjoyable 1995 made-for-TV action thriller Bullet to Beijing, following his Sixties hits The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain. Refreshing […]
George Smiley (Denholm Elliott) is asked by his wartime intelligence colleague, Ailsa Brimley (Glenda Jackson), to investigate a letter from a junior master’s wife at an English boys’ school, saying her husband is planning to […]
Sidney Lumet’s 1966 spy thriller film The Deadly Affair, adapted from John le Carré’s Call for the Dead, is chilling and riveting. James Mason plays le Carré’s famous British secret agent George Smiley, here called […]
Martin Ritt’s scintillating 1965 British spy film The Spy Who Came In from the Cold is based on the 1963 novel by John le Carré, and stars Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Oskar Werner. Director Martin Ritt’s scintillating 1965 […]
‘Meet James Bond. His new incredible women. His new incredible enemies. His new incredible adventures.’ Following the huge success of Dr No in 1962, the second 007 spy film From Russia with Love is more […]
British Secret Service agent 007 makes his epoch-making debut in Dr No in 1962. A fresh-faced, youngish-looking, lean and lithe Sean Connery (aged 32) makes his spy début confidently and charismatically in the role he will always […]
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