The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 10, 2013
- Originally Released: 1965
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Richard Burton, Peter van Eyck, Oskar Werner & Claire Bloom | |
Performer: | Sam Wanamaker, George Vaskovec, Rupert Davies, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern, Robert Hardy & Bernard Lee | |
Directed by | Martin Ritt | |
Edited by | Anthony Harvey | |
Screenwriting by | Paul Dehn & Guy Trosper | |
Original story by | John le Carré | |
Composition by | Sol Kaplan | |
Produced by | Martin Ritt | |
Director of Photography: | Oswald Morris |
Entertainment Reviews:
Grim, monotonous, and rather facile, though Richard Burton's aging agent has some honest poignancy.
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Chicago Reader
Burton is terrific....Oskar Werner matches Burton's performance as an ambitious Jewish communist agent who is hungry to displace his ex-Nazi superior.
USA Today
Rating: 2/4 --
Self-consciously dour where the James Bond movies were insouciantly callous.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 5/5 --
Brilliant depiction of humanity's foibles
JWR
The drab cold war atmosphere is deftly evoked by Oswald Morris's elemental black-and-white photography and the cramped sets designed by Tambi Larsen and Hal Pereira.
New York Times
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Sad and chilly.
Filmcritic.com
An excellent contemporary espionage drama of the Cold War which achieves solid impact via emphasis on human values, total absence of mechanical spy gimmickry, and perfectly controlled underplaying.
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Variety
Product Description:
Martin Ritt's adaptation of the John Le Carre bestseller THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD stars Richard Burton as Alec Leamas, a burnt-out spy soon to retire from British Intelligence. For his final assignment, Alec must pose as a drunk who wants to defect to East Germany, where the chief of operations for the Communists, Hans-Dieter Mundt (Peter van Eyck), has captured several British spies. His acting works: Communists throw Alec into jail for public drunkenness and for having an affair with a young member of the local Communist party, Nan (Claire Bloom). In jail, he is approached by Mundt's agents and asked to defect. They take Alec to East Berlin where he is grilled by Mundt's top man, Fiedler (Oskar Werner), who believes that Mundt is actually a double agent. Shot in stark black and white in documentary style, Ritt's film is a realistic portrait of the grim life of a spy, revealing all of the profession's complexities in a style that is equally as thrilling as an elaborate action scene in a James Bond movie. At the heart of the film is Burton's bitter and world-weary Alec, and his performance here ranks among the best of his career.
Keywords:
Adventure
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British
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Classic
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Spies
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Betrayal
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Deception
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Recommended
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Sixties
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Theatrical Release
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Espionage
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Spy
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Secret Agents
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1960s
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Cold War
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Based On A Novel
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