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Jun 5, 2015 · Check out the 12 things to know about Steven Spielberg's Cold War epic Bridge of Spies, the Coen Brothers scripted historical drama starring Tom Hanks.
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
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John LeCarré was the Tom Clancy of his day and his 1963 novel "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" was a runaway bestseller made into a highly anticipated 1965 movie starring Richard Burton as a downtrodden British spy seemingly recruited by the East Germans as a potential defector. In fact, he's there to spread disinformation on behalf on Western i...
Kevin Costner plays Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Farrell, accused of being a Soviet spy after he starts working at the Pentagon as an aide for the Secretary of Defense David Brice (Marine vet Gene Hackman). As Farrell races to find a way to prove his innocence, he uncovers a murder conspiracy and coverup led by Brice's general counsel Scott Pritch...
Michael Caine's Harry Palmer character was conceived as the antidote to James Bond: a gritty, working-class, rough-around-the-edges British spy who does the scut work protecting Western democracy from the communist threat. Based on a novel by Len Deighton, the movie has a convoluted plot about an audio tape that's brainwashing top scientists. There...
Robert DeNiro directed this sprawling epic about the origins of the CIA that climaxes with the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. Matt Damon plays Edward Wilson, a character loosely based on James Jesus Angleton, legendary head of CIA counterintelligence. Alec Baldwin is the FBI agent who recruits a young Wilson to fight the Nazis in 1939, DeNiro plays a...
Alfred Hitchcock couldn't get Cary Grant (who was retiring from acting) and Eva Marie-Saint to reprise their "North By Northwest" chemistry for this spy thriller and had to make do with Paul Newman and Julie Andrews, who happened to be the two biggest movie stars on the planet. Newman plays an American physicist who pretends to defect to East Germa...
Yul Brynner plays Dan Slater, a CIA agent who travels to the Austrian Alps to investigate his son's death and stumbles into a Soviet plot to replace him with a lookalike agent called Calmar. Future Bond girl Britt Ekland is still struggling with her English but it's not too noticeable in scenes opposite Brynner's own outrageous accent. Director Fra...
No one really thought we needed a movie version of John LeCarré's classic spy novel after the seven-part 1979 BBC TV series starring Alec Guinness at the height of his Obi-Wan Kenobi fame in one of the best series ever. Somehow, Swedish director Tomas Alfredson condensed the intricate tale of moles in British intelligence and Gary Oldman gave a per...
The great Don Siegel ("Dirty Harry" and "Hell is for Heroes") directs Charles Bronson as a Soviet major sent to the U.S. to stop forgotten sleeper agents who are being activated by a rogue KGB clerk and committing acts of terror. Bronson must stop the attacks before the American public figures out what's going on. There's a double agent played by L...
Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn play boyhood friends who spy for the Soviet Union in the 1970s in a movie based on actual events. Hutton plays Christopher Boyce (the "Falcon"), a civilian defense contractor who gets frustrated by the secret dealings of his own government and decides to repay the betrayal by selling secrets to the USSR. He enlists his ...
The great John Huston (who narrates his own trailer in the above video) brings his noir directing sensibility ("The Maltese Falcon," "Treasure of the Sierra Madre") to an intricately plotted tale of a Naval intelligence officer (Patrick O'Neal) whose commission is revoked so he can be recruited into a secret mission to retrieve an unauthorized lett...
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May 31, 2024 · The CNN Original Series “Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game” examines the tenuous global geopolitics during the Cold War through the lens of two notorious double agents: Oleg Gordievsky and ...
Step into the clandestine world of Cold War espionage, where spies shaped the course of history from the shadows. In a time of global tension, these secret a...
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Bridge of Spies is a Cold War thriller from director Steven Spielberg. Based on a true story, it stars Tom Hanks as James Donovan, a lawyer brought in to represent Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy being put on trial in the United States in 1957.
