Great Spy shows and films
 

We have done Police shows and now it's time to move in to the murky world of spy's, what were your favourite TV series and films?

For me there can only be two from TV.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and the sequel Smiley's People starring Alec Guinness as George Smiley, both these series were top notch and brilliant.

From the world of films I stick to John Le Carre again with the classic

The Spy who came in from the cold which even today is a great film and in my opinion the best performance from Richard Burton.

And not forgetting the other cold war classic Ice Station Zebra as we all know is a great film

TV? Get Smart :p and the original Mission Impossible series.

Movies? Spy Game with Robert Redford. But how can one not nominate that classic The Day of the Jakal!

I Spy with Robert Culp and Bill Cosby.

Concur with the above choices with a few additions:

The Secret Agent with David Suchet. From the Joseph Conrad Story

The Constant Gardner & The Little Drummer Girl by Le Carre'

The Bourne movies by Ludlum

Reilly, Ace of Spies. With Sam Neill as Sidney Reilly.

Three Days of the Condor, very prescient for these times. Favorite line:
"I don't remember yesteday. Today it rained."

The Package with Gene Hackman & Tommy Lee Jones

Our Man In Havana with Guiness & Noel Coward by Graham Greene

Syriana with George Clooney

And the all time classic, The Third Man with Orson Welles as Harry Lime.

I haven't seen the Ed Wilson biopic yet but it looks pretty good & close to what I already knew about Wilson.

The one movie I'd like to see made would be a bio of Markus Wolf of the Stasi, the template for the Karla character in the Le Carre' series.

The Ipcress File

Funeral In Berlin

I am glad you did not mention the third one.

Movies
No Way Out
Three Days of the Condor
The Boys from Brazil
The Sword of Guidian/Munich
The Conversation
The Manchurian Candidate
Casablanca
Breach
JFK
The Recruit
Seven Days in May

Books
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, Le Carre
A Small Town in Germany, Le Carre
The Honourable Schoolboy, Le Carre
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Le Carre
Smiley's People, Le Carre
The Russia House, Le Carre
The Little Drummer Girl, Le Carre
The Perfect Spy, Le Carre
The Night Manager, Le Carre
Taylor of Panama, Le Carre
Single & Single, Le Carre
The Oddessa File, Forsythe
The Dogs of War, Forsythe
Day of the Jackel, Forsythe
Shabumi, Trevanian
The Loo Sanction, Trevanian
The Eiger Sanction, Trevanian

Apparently there are even more (and likely worse):
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000323/

Look at numbers 29 and 31.

Favorites:
Our Man Flint
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
Blue Ice (Caine may or may not again be playing Palmer, but the name is Harry)

Hmm, no 007 movies:hmm:

Sean Connery and Roger Moore were always my favorite Movie spies.

For TV, Get Smart.

Though I never watched it, on a serious note, was "The Saint" with Bill Cosby a Spy show?

The Saint was Roger Moore. Cosby was in I Spy produced by Sheldon Leonard.

One other I forgot(or two actually)

Patrick McGoohan as Secret Agent/Danger Man & as #6 in the Prisoner

Thanks for the correction :yep: . Like I said, I never watched them but I heard "The Saint" was a good show and I new Cosby was in a Spy show.

That's why I like this Site, so much to learn here :up:

This one goes back a few years. All I remember is the spook and his gal are in a building using morse or a phone and the bad guys (DDR?) are searching for them by turning out the power (flipping the circuit breaker). Anyone know what this flick is?

Has anyone seen the movie based on GRU agent Viktor Suvorov's experiences (it was entitled "Akwarium" in German or Polish).

Paul Newman in "Torn Curtain" was pretty good.

Yours, Mike

The Lives Of Others is fantastic, unusual for a recent espionage flick

Man from U.N.C.L.E>

:)

Yep old MC did them three back in the late 80's early 90's no where near his first two.