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The story of their case was told in Robert Lindsey's best-selling 1979 book The Falcon and the Snowman. This book was turned into a film of the same title in 1985 by director John Schlesinger starring Timothy Hutton as Boyce and Sean Penn as Lee.
Mar 15, 2003 · Christopher Boyce, the Cold War traitor whose spying for the Russians was chronicled in the film "The Falcon and the Snowman," is free after spending almost half his life in federal...
Mar 6, 2014 · The falcons and the snowman. Wearing a sweatshirt in the sub-freezing weather, Boyce is the spy who'd just as soon come in from the cold. Nearly 40 years after he was caught selling...
Feb 8, 1985 · The Falcon and the Snowman: Directed by John Schlesinger. With Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle, Joyce Van Patten. The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- John Schlesinger
- 1985-02-08
Christopher Boyce, an expert in the sport of falconry and the son of a former FBI special agent, gets a job as a civilian defense contractor working in the so-called "Black Vault," a secure communication facility through which flows information on some of the most classified US operations in the world.
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The publicity surrounding the trial of Boyce and Lee was worldwide and resulted in a bestselling book about the exploits of "The Falcon and The Snowman." Boyce hid in this cramped drainage hole for over three hours prior to his escape.
Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton), a young seminarian, leaves his religious studies and returns to his family home in Rancho Palos Verdes, an affluent peninsula in southern California. He reunites with his friend from childhood, Daulton Lee (Sean Penn).
