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Actors: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Spy Who Came In From the Cold |
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After the death of all his agents in Berlin, former Bristish spy Alec Leamas is on his own. After falling in love with a liberian named Nan Perry, he beats up a local grocer and is thrown in jail. He is then recruited and taken to East Germany, all part of a plan to kill off the head of East Geman Counter-Intelligence. Leamas meets with the Deputy-Head of East Geman Counter-Intelligence and gives information incriminating the head, this leads to a trail where the Head is charged with treason. During the trail, Nan is brought in and reveals that Leamas is still working for British Intelligence. Leamas admits that his job was to give false information to incriminate the head of East Geman Counter-Intelligence. It is then revealed that the man he was sent to set up is a British agent, it was his deputy that was the target of the trail. The film ends tragiclly with both Leamas and Nan being killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall.
--Matthew W. Kresal, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Spy Who Came In From the Cold |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- spy
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- average (woman)
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- spy
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Germany
- England/UK
Misc setting
- prison
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
Kind of violence:
- mission to destroy something
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Check here if B&W
Yes
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Broadway musical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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