30/12/2009

1965: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

This unsentimental look at cold war espionage, chronicling the attempts of the British secret service to infiltrate their East German counterpart, suffers from being decidedly unfilmic - it's mostly conversations in boring-looking rooms. On the upside: the no-nonsense b/w cinematography and the screen presence that was Richard Burton. (6.5)

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