The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) |
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| Director(s) | Martin Ritt |
| Producer(s) | Martin Ritt |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation |
| Top Topics | Cold War, Spies |
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Richard Burton(as Alec Leamas)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Released
1965
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Released
1965
Richard Burton
(as Alec Leamas)
Claire Bloom(as Nan Perry)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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1965
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Released
1965
Claire Bloom
(as Nan Perry)
Oskar Werner(as Fiedler)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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1965
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Released
1965
Oskar Werner
(as Fiedler)
George Voskovec(as East German Defense Attorney)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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1965
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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1965
George Voskovec
(as East German Defense At...)
Cyril Cusack(as Control)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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1965
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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1965
Cyril Cusack
(as Control)
Michael Hordern(as Ashe)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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1965
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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1965
Michael Hordern
(as Ashe)
Bernard Lee(as Patmore)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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1965
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Released
1965
Bernard Lee
(as Patmore)
Esmond Knight(as Old Judge)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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1965
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Released
1965
Esmond Knight
(as Old Judge)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Overview:
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) was a Drama - Film Adaptation Film directed by Martin Ritt and produced by Martin Ritt.
Academy Awards 1965 --- Ceremony Number 38 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Actor | Richard Burton | Nominated |
| Best Art Direction | Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Edward Marshall; Set Decoration: Josie MacAvin | Nominated |
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold Directed by Martin Ritt Written by Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper from the novel by John Le Carre 1965/UK Salem Films Limited Repeat viewing/Netflix rental Possibly the saddest spy movie ever made. Also one of the best. Alec Leamas (Richard Burton) has been head of Bri... Read full article
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965)
Adapted from the John le Carré novel, this is a black & white spy thriller that personifies cold war paranoia in ways that Bond never could. Richard Burton is an operative working in Berlin before being demoted to a librarian job. It looks like our narrative is heading in a direction hardly f... Read full article
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965)
Adapted from the John le Carré novel, this is a black & white spy thriller that personifies cold war paranoia in ways that Bond never could. Richard Burton is an operative working in Berlin before being demoted to a librarian job. It looks like our narrative is heading in a direction hardly f... Read full article
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Quotes:
Alec Leamas:
Before, he was evil and my enemy; now, he is evil and my friend.
Alec Leamas:
Mundt was a Nazi, wasn't he?
Fiedler: He was a member of the Hitler Youth... as a boy.
Alec Leamas: Now he's a grown-up Communist. He was what I would call... available.
Fiedler: Like you!... Shall we begin? Let me start by asking you an amusing question.
Alec Leamas: Let me start by asking you one! Make you laugh your head off! Where's my money? When can I go whatever... whatever home is? And Carleton's gone home! Peters has gone home! What about me?
Fiedler: The agreement was...
Alec Leamas: Agreement!... You've broken the bloody agreement and barring miracles my bloody neck too! The agreememnt was that I should be interrogated for two weeks in Holland, paid, and allowed to slip quietly back to England without anyone knowing. I'd have been away and nobody would have known if you haven't broken the story.
Fiedler: Just who the hell do you think you are? How dare you come sniffing in here like Napoleon ordering me about? You are a traitor! Does it occur to you? A wanted, spent, dishonest man, the lowest currency of the Cold War? We buy you - we sell you - we lose you - we even can shoot you! Not a bird would stir in the trees outside. Not even a single pheasant would turn his head to see what fell.
Fiedler: He was a member of the Hitler Youth... as a boy.
Alec Leamas: Now he's a grown-up Communist. He was what I would call... available.
Fiedler: Like you!... Shall we begin? Let me start by asking you an amusing question.
Alec Leamas: Let me start by asking you one! Make you laugh your head off! Where's my money? When can I go whatever... whatever home is? And Carleton's gone home! Peters has gone home! What about me?
Fiedler: The agreement was...
Alec Leamas: Agreement!... You've broken the bloody agreement and barring miracles my bloody neck too! The agreememnt was that I should be interrogated for two weeks in Holland, paid, and allowed to slip quietly back to England without anyone knowing. I'd have been away and nobody would have known if you haven't broken the story.
Fiedler: Just who the hell do you think you are? How dare you come sniffing in here like Napoleon ordering me about? You are a traitor! Does it occur to you? A wanted, spent, dishonest man, the lowest currency of the Cold War? We buy you - we sell you - we lose you - we even can shoot you! Not a bird would stir in the trees outside. Not even a single pheasant would turn his head to see what fell.
Control:
We have to live without sympathy, don't we? We can't do that forever. One can't stay out of doors all the time. One needs to come in from the cold.
Alec Leamas: I'm an operator, Control, just an operator.
Control: There's a vacancy in Banking Section which might suit you.
Alec Leamas: Sorry, I'm an operational man. I'll take my pension. I don't want a desk job.
Control: You don't know what's on the desk.
Alec Leamas: Paper!
Control: [after taking a long sip from his tea cup] I want you to stay, uh, out in the cold... a little longer.
Alec Leamas: I'm an operator, Control, just an operator.
Control: There's a vacancy in Banking Section which might suit you.
Alec Leamas: Sorry, I'm an operational man. I'll take my pension. I don't want a desk job.
Control: You don't know what's on the desk.
Alec Leamas: Paper!
Control: [after taking a long sip from his tea cup] I want you to stay, uh, out in the cold... a little longer.
Alec Leamas:
What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, hen-pecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?
Control:
A shark can smell blood a mile off when he's hungry, and Mundt is hungry for our blood.
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David Lodge says in his memoirs he had disastrous interview with Martin Ritt for the part of Patmore.
The phrase "Number 11 bus", which is heard a few times, is British slang for walking; your two legs look like the number 11.
Burt Lancaster was originally attached to play Alec Leamas.
Richard Burton and co-star Warren Mitchell were Royal Air Force cadets together at Oxford in 1944, where they knew one another and became friends. From 1944-47, when both were demobilized, they were stationed together at times in Canada and back in England.
In the room in East Germany where Leamas is interrogated by Fiedler, the wallpaper is of English design ("Marigold" by William Morris).