The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 25, 2008
- Originally Released: 1965
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Richard Burton, Peter van Eyck, Oskar Werner & Claire Bloom | |
Performer: | Sam Wanamaker, George Vaskovec, Rupert Davies, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern, Robert Hardy & Bernard Lee | |
Directed by | Martin Ritt | |
Edited by | Anthony Harvey | |
Screenwriting by | Paul Dehn & Guy Trosper | |
Original story by | John le Carré | |
Composition by | Sol Kaplan | |
Produced by | Martin Ritt | |
Director of Photography: | Oswald Morris |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
The film makes you believe it could have happened. And that's the remarkable thing.
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New York Times
An excellent contemporary espionage drama of the Cold War which achieves solid impact via emphasis on human values, total absence of mechanical spy gimmickry, and perfectly controlled underplaying.
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Variety
What finally impresses, however, is the sheer seediness of so much of the film, with characters, buildings, and landscapes lent convincingly grubby life by Oswald Morris' excellent monochrome camera-work.
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Time Out
Grim, monotonous, and rather facile, though Richard Burton's aging agent has some honest poignancy.
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Chicago Reader
Where the Bond films are fairy tales for adults, Spy Who Came In From the Cold is a drama of human values, not without a moment or two of melodrama, but nonetheless one in which the emphasis is on realism.
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Cleveland Press
Rating: A --
Ritt helms one of the better spy dramas.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A brilliant screenplay crisp, muted, funny, never pushing its points, and acting of the unobtrusively perfect sort you aren't asked to notice. Goes a long way towards bolstering this excitement.
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The Spectator
Product 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.
Description by Image Entertainment / Criterion Collection:
John Le Carre's acclaimed bestselling novel, about a Cold War spy on one final, dangerous mission, is every bit as precise and ruthless onscreen in this adaptation directed by Martin Ritt. Richard Burton delivers one of his career-defining performances as Alec Leamas, whose hesitant but deeply felt relationship with a beautiful librarian (Claire Bloom) puts what he hopes will be his last assignment, in East Germany, in jeopardy. An intelligent, hard-edged, and even tragic thriller, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is etched with realism and suffused with genuine political and personal anxiety.
Keywords:
Adventure
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British
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Classic
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Spies
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Betrayal
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Deception
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Recommended
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Sixties
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Theatrical Release
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Espionage
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Spy
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Secret Agents
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1960s
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Cold War
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Based On A Novel
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 46,375
- UPC: 715515033121
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