is the story of an English couple who, while on a tennis holiday, unwittingly find themselves embroiled in a complicated plot involving the Russian mob, politicians, and international bankers. InA Delicate Truth(2013) a young civil servant attempts to discern what actually occurred during the offic...
Ideology Spurred Spy Suspects to Carry on after Cold War: Couple, Man Met as 1970s Campus Radicals; Two Had Jobs at PentagonThe end of the Cold War put a lot of communist spies out of business. Three out-of-work agents...Gertz, Bill...
Gregory Peck stars in this suspenseful thriller as an American scientist recruited to retrieve valuable information about an agricultural breakthrough in communist China during the height of the Cold War. With intense action scenes and political intrigue driving its engrossing plot, this film remains a...
In Dark Cinema: American Film Noir in Cultural Perspective, Jon Tuska makes a couple of connections between espionage literature and film noir. First, in his chapter on the literary roots of film noir, the section that follows “Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction” is “Other Varieties of Romans ...
“The batter spoke French. The couple from church had French accents.” “They were from Quebec.” “So they said. But the batter’s French wasn’t Canadian. It was Parisian.” Shell twisted in her seat and checked on the children. She gave the baby’s foot a squeeze and turned back...
In a 2016 article for The Guardian,revealed fond memories of the shoot: "The director and I got along fine. I enjoyed an amiable relationship with the screenwriter [i.e.Paul Dehn], who as a former instructor in the black arts at a British spy school during World War II, turned out to...
Elizabeth (actually “Nadezhda”), raised in post-war, Communist Russia by a single mother, is a young KGB agent assigned to pose as part of a suburban couple in America with another KGB agent, husband “Phillip”. Elizabeth and Phillip only know each other by their American names as a ...
The movie was nominated for two Oscars, and won one for Best Visual Effects.Unfortunately, the film came out during the pandemic, and while it was a box office success, making $359 million, it still wasn't as big of an earner thanks to its $205 million budget. There are many people ...
Steven Spielberg’s “Bridge of Spies” tells the true story of an insurance lawyer, played by Tom Hanks, who becomes embroiled in a Cold War-era spy exchange. The film combines courtroom drama with espionage, showcasing the tension between superpowers during the era. ...
one of which ends with Armstrong and a farmer’s wife killing an enemy operative. Armstrong and Sherman later take refuge in a crowded theatre, and when the police arrive, Armstrong shouts, “Fire,” so that he and Sherman can escape in the ensuing panic. The couple ultimately hides in tr...