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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 4223314, member: 1414"] [B]The Spy Who Came in From the Cold[/B]. 1965 black and white. Somewhat to [USER=974]@Palatine[/USER]'s point, with the Cold War fresh in mind now, my wife and I chose to watch this. Stars Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and some others who you'd recognize. This is based on a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_le_Carr%C3%A9']John LeCarre[/URL] novel, and I believe predated "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy". The story is interesting, but in the exact opposite of modern movies, vast amounts of character development are omitted. Burton meets Bloom's character Nan and boom, they are lovers. What? Burton is an Mi6 man, who ran the Berlin station. They've been having their spies caught and killed. Control uses him to trap and infiltrate the East German intelligence community to put an end to it. As is typical of LeCarre, there are lots of twists and turns and you're not quite sure who is pulling what strings until the end. Smiley, the main guy in Tinker, Tailor, has a small role here. It's ok. If you like these things, both the longer 1979 BBC Tinker, Tailor Soldier Spy and the newer 2011 movie with Gary Oldham are much better. The long format unfolding in the 1979 BBC version just highlights how much detail was omitted in [I]The Spy Who Came in From the Cold[/I]. Alec Guinness is just extraordinary in it. [/QUOTE]