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| Richard Burton | ... | Alec Leamas | |
| Claire Bloom | ... | Nan Perry | |
| Oskar Werner | ... | Fiedler | |
| Sam Wanamaker | ... | Peters | |
| George Voskovec | ... | East German Defense Attorney | |
| Rupert Davies | ... | George Smiley | |
| Cyril Cusack | ... | Control | |
| Peter van Eyck | ... | Hans-Dieter Mundt (as Peter Van Eyck) | |
| Michael Hordern | ... | Ashe | |
| Robert Hardy | ... | Dick Carlton | |
| Bernard Lee | ... | Patmore | |
| Beatrix Lehmann | ... | Tribunal President | |
| Esmond Knight | ... | Old Judge | |
| Tom Stern | ... | CIA Agent | |
| Niall MacGinnis | ... | German Checkpoint Guard | |
| Scott Finch | ... | German Guide (as Scot Finch) | |
| Anne Blake | ... | Miss Crail | |
| George Mikell | ... | German Checkpoint Guard | |
| Richard Marner | ... | Vopo Captain | |
| Warren Mitchell | ... | Mr. Zanfrello | |
| Steve Plytas | ... | East German Judge | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Richard Caldicot | ... | Mr. Pitt | |
| Michael Ripper | ... | Lofthouse | |
| Graham Armitage | ... | Pawson (uncredited) | |
| David Bauer | ... | Young Judge (uncredited) | |
| Marianne Deeming | ... | Frau Floerdke (uncredited) | |
| Walter Gotell | ... | Holten (uncredited) | |
| Edward Harvey | ... | Man in the Shop (uncredited) | |
| Katherine Keeton | ... | Stripper at the Pussywillow club (uncredited) | |
| Philip Madoc | ... | Young German Officer (uncredited) | |
| Henk Molenberg | ... | Dutch customs officer (uncredited) | |
| Nancy Nevinson | ... | Mrs. Zanfrello (uncredited) | |
| Michael Rittermann | ... | Security Officer (uncredited) | |
Directed by | |||
| Martin Ritt | |||
Writing credits | ||
| John le Carré | (novel "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold") | |
| Paul Dehn | (screenplay) and | |
| Guy Trosper | (screenplay) | |
Produced by | |||
| Martin Ritt | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Sol Kaplan | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Oswald Morris | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Anthony Harvey | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Tambi Larsen | |||
| Hal Pereira | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Ted Marshall | (as Edward Marshall) | ||
Set Decoration by | |||
| Josie MacAvin | (uncredited) | ||
Costume Design by | |||
| Sophie Devine | (as Motley) | ||
Makeup Department | |||
| Eric Allwright | .... | makeup artist | |
| George Frost | .... | makeup supervisor | |
| Joan Smallwood | .... | hair stylist | |
Production Management | |||
| James H. Ware | .... | production supervisor (as James Ware) | |
| Wim Lindner | .... | production manager: Netherlands (uncredited) | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Colin M. Brewer | .... | assistant director (as Colin Brewer) | |
Art Department | |||
| Stan Gale | .... | construction manager | |
| Josie MacAvin | .... | set dresser | |
| Peter Melrose | .... | scenic artist | |
Sound Department | |||
| John Cox | .... | sound recordist | |
| Gordon Daniel | .... | dubbing editor | |
| John W. Mitchell | .... | sound recordist | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Maurice Gillett | .... | supervising electrician | |
| Brian West | .... | camera operator | |
| Bob Penn | .... | still photographer (uncredited) | |
Casting Department | |||
| Sally Nicholl | .... | casting supervisor | |
Costume and Wardrobe Department | |||
| Sophie Devine | .... | costumes (as Motley) | |
| Barbara Gillett | .... | wardrober | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Denis Whitehouse | .... | assistant editor | |
Music Department | |||
| Sol Kaplan | .... | conductor | |
Transportation Department | |||
| Arthur Dunne | .... | transportation captain | |
Other crew | |||
| Angela Martelli | .... | continuity | |
| Richard McWhorter | .... | assistant to producer | |
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Back during the Cold War, people actually bought into the bleak misery that was brinkmanship & actors actually took chances, & their agents let them.
Richard Burton is Alec Laemmas, John Le Carre's reluctant spy, whose disillusionment is turned against him to save one last informant: hard to believe that Mr. Burton was then still in the throes of his public romance with Liz Taylor. Grim's the word here: from the opening Checkpoint Charlie Berlin scene to the Dutch shores to the East German countryside--the Cold War's done nobody any favors. Moreover, this harsh treatment of spies & their back-stabbing, double-dealing ways was made just after Ian Fleming's suave James Bond had become a pop movie icon (Bond's "M," Bernard Lee, as a grocer here ["T'get a proper credit, y'need a banker's reference."], gets the crap pummeled outta him by Burton).
Anyway, "Spy" is movie stripped of glamor: everyone gets usurped by people with power. Burton's Laemmas is sent to salvage the good guys' chief informant, a senior GDR official; Claire Bloom's Commie idealist Nancy is called to East Germany under the ruse of cultural exchange, to aid in the hoax. Oscar Werner is mesmerizing ("Were you present for ziss...Sanksgiving?") as the no. 2 man in the Abteilung, on the trail of no. 1, Peter van Eyck, until Laemmas shows up to thwart his plans.
If old cold warriors were only half as conniving as they appear here, whither did they go after the fall of the Soviet Union? Something to which nobody with nanogram of sense has paid much attention.