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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: Directed by Martin Ritt. With Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker. Instead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British agent, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer.
Box office. $7,600,000. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold is a 1965 British spy film based on the 1963 novel of the same name by John le Carré. The film stars Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Oskar Werner. It was directed by Martin Ritt, and the screenplay was written by Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper.
Aug 31, 2023 · While Le Carré did this over an astonishing 50-year career and more than two dozen novels, it's his third novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold that cemented this vision effectively, resulting ...
At the height of the Cold War, British spy Alec Leamas (Richard Burton) is nearly ready to retire, but first he has to take on one last dangerous assignment. Going deep undercover, he poses as...
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. The West Berlin office of the Circus is under the command of Station Head Alec Leamas, who served as an SOE (Special Operations Executive) operative during World War II, and fought in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands and Norway. ...
In West Berlin in the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, Alec Leamas is a spy in charge of British Intelligence operations in the city. However, his operatives have been hunted down and killed by Mundt, the head of East German counter-espionage.
