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Director:
Terence Young
Writers:
Dorothea Bennett (novel)
Jo Eisinger (screenplay)
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Release Date:
7 September 1984 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Thriller more
Plot:
An MI6 defector has his appearance altered by the KGB and is sent back to Britain to retrieve top-secret documents. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
Wobbling its way to cult status more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Michael Caine ... Philip Kimberly / Sergei Kuzminsky

Laurence Olivier ... Adm. Sir Gerald Scaith
Susan George ... Penelope Kimberley
Robert Powell ... Jamie Fraser
Charles Gray ... Sir James Chorley
Morteza Kazerouni ... Boris Medvachian
Michael Medwin ... Milroy
Eric Sevareid ... Himself
Sabine Sun ... Dr. Zilenka

David Kelly ... Cameron
Patrick Dawson ... Ginger
Vladek Sheybal ... Gen. Zorin

Peter Burton ... Douglas Ransom
Maggie Rennie ... Mrs. Ransom
Richard Aylen ... Older Kimberley
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Additional Details

Runtime:
94 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Helsinki, Finland more
Company:
Evangrove more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Last feature film of Bill Shine. more
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Kimberly is listening to the news broadcast of his "death", the newscaster refers to the Manhattan Project spy Ethel Rosenberg as Esther Rosenberg. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Jude Law/Ashlee Simpson (#30.3)" (2004) more
Soundtrack:
Only You And I more

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Wobbling its way to cult status, 5 January 2009
3/10
Author: Mac-148 from Beijing

Made after some of the best spy drama movies, including the TV adaptation of Le Carre's Smiley's People, you have to wonder how they got it so wrong. And with Michael Caine, Olivier and Charles Gray! And with the director of the grittiest early Bond movies! It was totally ridiculous as a story and as a film, but also hugely endearing to a Brit who has lived in Asia for over 25 years. I got the same pleasure watching this as I did in seeing the sets wobble in "The Builders" episode of Fawlty Towers. The whole thing wobbled, especially the acting. Oliver's mention of the leather chair to Michael Medwin was the only finely delivered line.

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