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A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
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2 April 1968 (USA) moreTagline:
A Double Agent in Double Danger!Plot:
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
may be pretentious but not boring moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Laurence Harvey | ... | Eberlin | |
| Tom Courtenay | ... | Gatiss | |
| Mia Farrow | ... | Caroline | |
| Harry Andrews | ... | Fraser | |
| Peter Cook | ... | Prentiss | |
| Lionel Stander | ... | Sobakevich | |
| Per Oscarsson | ... | Pavel | |
| Barbara Murray | ... | Miss Vogler | |
| John Bird | ... | Henderson | |
| Norman Bird | ... | Copperfield | |
| Geoffrey Bayldon | ... | Lake | |
| Calvin Lockhart | ... | Brogue | |
| James Cossins | ... | Heston-Stevas | |
| Michael Trubshawe | ... | Flowers | |
| Lockwood West | ... | Quince |
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West Germany:12 (re-rated) | West Germany:16 | UK:12 (video rating) (2007) | UK:A | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15Fun Stuff
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Dour spy film full of ambiance and interesting scenes, filmed on location in London and Berlin, in color, with an interesting story about a Russian spy who has been infiltrated into the British spying agency for eighteen years and wants to go back home. The twist is that he's done such a good job for the Russians, that the British want him killed. The added twist is that we're led to believe that they (the British) don't know about him (his true identity), and send him to Berlin to kill the Russian mole (himself). Who better to play the part than the intense Laurence Harvey? Combine him with Per Oscarsson as his Russian contact, the two of them both homesick and tired of the existential life of a spy, and both doomed, and you get a pretty brooding picture. Harvey's romance with Mia Farrow doesn't add much, but attempts to put him in some kind of human warmth out of the cold and danger of the spy world. If the film is pretentious, it's because of the Cold War world of espionage that it seeks to portray, Sartre existentialism with touches of Kafka, as well as swinging 60's jet set James Bond scenes, such as a great scene at the German Grand Prix, featuring Tom Courtenay with a rifle disguised as a cane, and the sophisticated and elegant opening theme written by Quincy Jones.