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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1974 spy novel by the author and former spy John le Carré. It follows the endeavours of the taciturn, ageing spymaster George Smiley to uncover a Soviet mole in the British Secret Intelligence Service.
Mar 19, 2021 · In Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, retired intelligence officer George Smiley (Gary Oldman) has been brought in by a government minister to investigate warnings of a mole at the top of the...
The film stars an ensemble cast including Gary Oldman as George Smiley, with Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciarán Hinds, David Dencik and Kathy Burke. It is set in London in the early 1970s and follows the hunt for a Soviet double agent at the top of the British secret service.
In his initial appearance in 1961's Call for the Dead, Smiley is somewhere around 55 years of age; changes to his birth year in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, set between 1973 and 1974, make him about 58 during the events of that story.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Directed by Tomas Alfredson. With Mark Strong, John Hurt, Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Kálloy Molnár. In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: With Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate, George Sewell. In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced out of semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.
5 days ago · George Smiley is at once an unlikely hero of spy fiction and, to borrow le Carré’s epithet for a later creation, a perfect spy. A veteran of the intelligence operations of World War II and ...