Spy Who Came from the Cold [WS] [Criterion Collection]
Director: Martin Ritt Cast: Richard Burton , Claire Bloom , Oskar Werner , Cyril Cusack , Peter Van Eyck
DVD
(Special Edition / Wide Screen / B&W)
- Release Date: 11/25/2008
- UPC: 0715515033121
- Original Release: 1965
- Source: CRITERION COLLECTION
- Region Code: 1
- Presentation: [B&W, Wide Screen]
- Sound: [Dolby Digital Stereo]
- Language: English
- Runtime: 6720
- Sales rank: 5,046
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Trailer
Disc #2 -- Spy Who Came In From the Cold - The Supplements
John Le Carr?
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The Secret Centre: John Le Carr?
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Index
"The Secret Path"
Switzerland
"The Call"
The Berlin Wall
Smiley
"Endless Standoff"
Martin Ritt
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Early Career
Present and Past
Progressive Artistry
Oswald Morris
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Index
Opening Scenes
Leamas And Nan
Strip Club
Tribunal
Ending
Set Designs
Acting In The 60's: Richard Burton
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Index
Introduction
Leading Man
Hamlet
Film
Elizabeth Taylor
Live Audience
Based on the novel by John Le Carre, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold stars Richard Burton as a dispirited, end-of-tether British secret agent. He comes in from "the cold" (meaning he is pulled out of field operations) to act as a undercover man behind the Iron Curtain. To make his staged defection seem genuine, Burton goes on an alcoholic toot and is imprisoned and publicly humiliated. Once he has been accepted into East German espionage circles, Burton discovers that what he thought was his mission was a mere subterfuge--and that he's been set up as a pawn for an entirely different operation. Though Ireland and England "stand in" for East Berlin, Spy Who Came In From the Cold has the air of authenticity throughout, thanks in great part to the bleak black and white photography by Oswald Morris. The film was condemned as incomprehensible by those filmgoers accustomed to the simplistic melodramatics of James Bond; seen today, the double-crosses and double-double crosses seem all too clear and credible.
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