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Frank Pierson’s 1970 British thriller film The Looking Glass War is a passable dour and downbeat espionage entertainment. Christopher Jones stars as a young Polish defector who is recruited as a spy by MI6. Writer-director […]
Director Warren Beatty won the Academy Award for Best Director for his fascinating, sometimes riveting 1981 film about the life of communist American -radical journalist John Reed from 1913 through his involvement in the 1917 […]
Jean Kent, Albert Lieven and Alan Wheatley star in the quirky and amusing 1948 British thriller film Sleeping Car to Trieste about spies, diary thieves, blackmailers and murderers aboard a trans-Europe express train. ‘A Thousand […]
‘THE IMPOSSIBLE CRIME. THRILLER OF THRILLERS.’ Ken Hughes’s 1955 British black and white crime film Little Red Monkey is a complex, nifty and enjoyable Cold War espionage thriller. Richard Conte and Rona Anderson star. Co-writer/ […]
Rebecca Ferguson, Sam Reid, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Charles Dance are all first rate in writer-director Shamim Sarif’s smart-looking, involving and intriguing old-style Cold War romantic spy thriller. The excellent Rebecca Ferguson stars as Fifties Moscow communist spy Katya, […]
Producer-writer-director Nunnally Johnson’s nimble and nifty 1954 Cold War suspense thriller Night People stars Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk, Rita Gam, Walter Abel and Buddy Ebsen, who greatly help to enliven the story about the […]
20th Century Fox’s complex, nail-biting, labyrinthine Cold War thriller about an American submarine’s mission up to the Arctic to put a spoke in the wheels of a Chinese conspiracy to start a war against America […]