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The honourable schoolboy john le carré6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() In between Star Wars films, Alec Guinness’s interpretation of MI6 spymaster George Smiley created another character whose influence lingers (Stephen Rea’s jaded spook in BBC2’s The Honourable Woman was, in effect, Smiley redux). Its dour feel saturates both a soot-fogged London and nocturnal East Berlin, where the poisonous triple-bluff effected by the British Secret Service, with Alec Lemas (played by a splendidly ranty Richard Burton) as its unknowing pawn, moves inexorably towards its inevitable conclusion. The rights to The Spy Who Came in from the Cold were snapped up Paramount before the book had even been printed. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (film, 1965) ![]()
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