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Leiser crosses the border into East Germany under cover of night, while the MI6 agents monitor for his radio messages from a West German cabin. On the way in, Leiser cuts his hand badly on the barbed wire fence and is forced to kill a young East German border guard who sees him. In the morning, the dead border guard is discovered and becomes a ...
Feb 8, 1970 · The Looking Glass War: Directed by Frank Pierson. With Christopher Jones, Pia Degermark, Ralph Richardson, Paul Rogers. From the John le Carré novel about a British spy who sends a Polish defector to East Germany to verify missile sites.
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- Frank Pierson
- 1970-02-08
The Looking Glass War. PG Released Jan 28, 1970 1h 48m Mystery & Thriller. No score yet. Reviews. Rotten audience score. 49% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings. A British spy (Ralph Richardson) sends a ...
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- Frank Pierson
- PG
- Christopher Jones
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A film of the novel was released in 1969, starring Christopher Jones as Leiser, Ralph Richardson as LeClerc (sic), and Anthony Hopkins as Avery. It was directed by Frank Pierson. As part of a series of dramatisation of Le Carré's work, the "Complete Smiley" series, BBC Radio produced a radio play of The Looking Glass War in 2009.
- John le Carré
- 1965
The Looking Glass War. From the John le Carre novel about a British spy who sends a Polish defector to East Germany to verify missile sites. 176 IMDb 5.8 1 h 47 min ...
The 1969 feature The Looking Glass War, based on John le Carré's fourth novel (which was published the same year that the film version of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold [1965] was released to great acclaim), was the third Le Carré adaption in as many years. It follows the same unglamorous portrait of intelligence gathering in the real ...
Their agent, Taylor King (Timothy West), who receives a film which might clarify the detail from a pilot in Finland, is found dead on the road, and the Police believe he was accidentally killed in a hit-and-run. LeClerc meets the Polish defector Fred Leiser (Christopher Jones), who jumped overboard from a ship expecting to have asylum and stay ...
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