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Overview
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Writers:
Dorothea Bennett (novel)
Jo Eisinger (screenplay)
Release Date:
7 September 1984 (Sweden) 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
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poor Cold War thriller marred by bad acting and accents more (15 total)
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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94 min
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Iceland:14 | Australia:M | Norway:16 (1985) | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:PG
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Windsor Safari Park where the action scenes were filmed closed its gates in 1992, and became a Legoland theme park since 1996. more
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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
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Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Jude Law/Ashlee Simpson (#30.3)" (2004) more
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Only You And I more
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A very dull film is the only way of describing this tale of spies and defectors, plastic surgery and double dealing, during the Cold War. Michael Caine plays the rejuvenated spy who returns to his homeland, and his former friend and sparring partner, head of M15 (a truly appalling Laurence Olivier), at the same time reviving his relationship with his pouting daughter Penny (Susan George) who is having a fling with a secret service man (Robert Powell), who is surviving attempts to kill him by ... well, who knows?
With fruity support from Charles Gray and Michael Medwin and an awful script delivered in poor accents (Caine's Russian has to be heard to be believed) 'The Jigsaw Man' becomes a bit of a joke.
It is watchable, but is really a load of old rubbish dressed up in London locations and with some semblance of a plot.