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Release Date: 13 July, 2004 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $11.24 You SAVE: $3.75! Cast: Complete Cast (5 total) |
Spy Who Came in From the Cold (Ws Sub) Reviews
A Cold World of Gray in the Psychedelic Sixties
In another review here (a good one, too), I found out that Richard Burton lost the Best Actor Oscar to Lee Marvin in CAT BALLOU, thus solidifying my opinion that the Academy Awards operate at the level of a high school popularity contest.
(I believe Burton and fellow hellraiser Peter O'Toole share the record for most nominations without a win: 8 apiece).
Shot in a stark black and white, THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD is definitely closer to the down and dirty business of Cold War spying than James Bond.
There are no exotic locales or a parade of bikini-clad babes, but there is plenty of intrigue and double-crossing as a cynical, broken Richard Burton descends further into the spider's web of the Cold War. More thought-provoking than thrilling, SPY remains as a cold reminder that the Cold War wasn't just fodder for the swingin' Sixties culture.
I never thought I'd live to see the Berlin War fall, such was the climate of fear that the, to quote Ronald Reagan, "empire of evil" maintained in my lifetime. It fell in 1989. This film is a reminder of what a powerful and scary symbol that wall used to be.
A Surreal, Gloomy Treasure
What a wonderful movie. This is the real world of cold war espionage folks, not the Bond nonsense. I was an intelligence officer in Germany during the cold war and this film is so realistic it's scary. Anyone who wants to know what East Germany or the DDR looked like, watch this film. Pinewood Studios reproduced Checkpoint Charlie down to the exact detail. Richard Burton is excellent as usual in the role of Alec Leamas. Claire Bloom, whom I consider one of the most beautiful women on the screen, does a masterful acting job as a naive, British communist. Watch this one and remember that the cold war was no cakewalk!
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