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The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (VHS, 1988)

Leading Role: Peter Van Eyck
Director: Martin Ritt
Rating: Not Rated
Release Date: Oct 1988
Format: VHS
UPC: 097360650938
Product ID: EPID3130364
Description: Martin Ritt's adaptation of the John Le Carre bestseller THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD stars Richard Burton as Alec Leamas, a burnt-out spy soon to retire from British Intelligence. For his final assignment, Alec must pose as a drunk...
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Movie Description
Martin Ritt's adaptation of the John Le Carre bestseller THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD stars Richard Burton as Alec Leamas, a burnt-out spy soon to retire from British Intelligence. For his final assignment, Alec must pose as a drunk who wants to defect to East Germany, where the chief of operations for the Communists, Hans-Dieter Mundt (Peter van Eyck), has captured several British spies. His acting works: Communists throw Alec into jail for public drunkenness and for having an affair with a young member of the local Communist party, Nan (Claire Bloom). In jail, he is approached by Mundt's agents and asked to defect. They take Alec to East Berlin where he is grilled by Mundt's top man, Fiedler (Oskar Werner), who believes that Mundt is actually a double agent. Shot in stark black and white in documentary style, Ritt's film is a realistic portrait of the grim life of a spy, revealing all of the profession's complexities in a style that is equally as thrilling as an elaborate action scene in a James Bond movie. At the heart of the film is Burton's bitter and world-weary Alec, and his performance here ranks among the best of his career.

Credits
Writer:Paul Dehn
Producer:Martin Ritt
Cast:Bernard Lee, Cyril Cusack, George Vaskovec, Michael Hordern, Peter Van Eyck, Sam Wanamaker

Details
Sound:Stereo Sound

Notes
Originally released theatrically on December 16, 1965.

Filmed at Ireland's Ardmore Studios and England's Shepperton Studios.

John Le Carré actually worked as a spy for the British Intelligence Agency in Berlin when the Berlin Wall was going up. He drew upon those experiences to write THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD.

Additional cast: Scot Finch (German Guide) and Anne Blake (Miss Crail).

Editorial Reviews
"Burton is terrific....Oskar Werner matches Burton's performance as an ambitious Jewish communist agent who is hungry to displace his ex-Nazi superior."
USA Today - Mike Clark (09/13/2005)

"Burton is sexily morose....[The actors] pull you into a fascinatingly crabbed, paranoid world." -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly - Ken Tucker (12/05/2008)

"The drab cold war atmosphere is deftly evoked by Oswald Morris's elemental black-and-white photography and the cramped sets designed by Tambi Larsen and Hal Pereira."
New York Times - Dave Kehr (11/24/2008)

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