The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
In cinemas
January 21, 1966
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May 17, 2021
Director
Starring
Anne Blake, Beatrix Lehmann, Bernard Lee, Claire Bloom, Cyril Cusack, David Bauer, Edward Harvey, Esmond Knight, George Mikell, George Voskovec, Henk Molenberg, Marianne Deeming, Michael Hordern, Michael Ripper, Michael Rittermann, Nancy Nevinson, Niall MacGinnis, Oskar Werner, Peter van Eyck, Richard Burton, Richard Caldicot, Richard Marner, Robert Hardy, Rupert Davies, Sam Wanamaker, Scott Finch, Steve Plytas, Tom Stern, Walter Gotell & Warren Mitchell
Contains mild violence, language and sex references
The acclaimed, best-selling novel by John le Carré, about a Cold War spy on one final dangerous mission in East Germany, is transmuted by director Martin Ritt into a film every bit as precise and ruthless as the book. Richard Burton is superb as Alec Leamas, whose relationship with the beautiful librarian Nan, played by Claire Bloom, puts his assignment in jeopardy. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a hard-edged and tragic thriller, suffused with the political and social consciousness that defined Ritt’s career.
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