The Kremlin Letter (1970)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

John Huston

Writers:

Noel Behn (novel)
Gladys Hill (writer)

Release Date:

1 February 1970 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller

Tagline:

Don't trust anyone in THE KREMLIN LETTER

Plot:

A network of older spies from the West recruits a young intelligence officer with a photographic memory to accompany them on a mission inside Russia...

Plot Keywords:

Espionage | China | Spy | Photographic Memory | San Francisco California

Cast

Bibi Andersson	...	Erika Kosnov
Richard Boone	...	Ward
Nigel Green	...	The Whore
Dean Jagger	...	Highwayman
Lila Kedrova	...	Madam Sophie
Micheál MacLiammóir	...	Sweet Alice
Patrick O'Neal	...	Charles Rone
Barbara Parkins	...	B.A.
Ronald Radd	...	Captain Potkin
George Sanders	...	Warlock
Raf Vallone	...	Puppet Maker
Max von Sydow	...	Colonel Kosnov
Orson Welles	...	Bresnavitch
Sandor Elès	...	Lt. Grodin (as Sandor Eles)
Niall MacGinnis	...	Erector Set

Runtime:

120 min

Country:

USA

Language:

Russian | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Iceland:16 | West Germany:18 (nf) | Finland:K-16 | Spain:18 | USA:M

Filming Locations:

Helsinki, Finland

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

Lila Kedrova worked three days.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Finnish actress Saara Ranin is credited as Saara Rannin.

Quotes:

Bresnavitch: [Colonel Kosnov's wife has fled the room] Don't worry Colonel, she'll be all right. After all, a wife has a right to know exactly what her husband contributes to society.

Soundtrack:

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Best spy flick ever

Best spy film of the genre. It has an exceptionally high caliber of actors who, portray the coldness, ruthlessness and reality of espionage, particularly during the cold war. The premise of the film is complex in that things are not what they seem. The reality of what spies do is never depicted more coldly and as a result more negatively in what it entails and the cost it has to one's humanity. If one is interested in a movie that, even by today's standards, would not be made, because there are no 'heroes', see the best spy movie Ever.