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Film Description

Le Carre's classic spy thriller adapted into an absolutely enthralling piece of television drama. George Smiley is brought out of retirement to find the enemy agent who has infiltrated the British Secret Service. He quietly and assiduously goes to work in a world where spies spy on spies and nothing is quite as it seems.

 

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Director John Irvin
Starring Alec Guinness, Hywel Bennett, Ian Bannen, Bernard Hepton, Sian Phillips, Beryl Reid, Patrick Stewart

 

Genre Television

 

Country UK Language English   Year 1980

 

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2 discs. The Secret Centre (edited documentary)

 

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Certificate PG   Length 315 mins   Label BBC-DD
Cat No BBCDVD1180   Format DVD   Colour
Region2+4   Aspect 4:3
Subtitles English HoH.

 

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Review by Denis Sullivan on 15th August 2000

This 3-part series, produced for BBC television,
starred (among others) Alec Guinness as George
Smiley, Bernard Hepton as Toby Esterhase, Ian
Bannen as Jim Prideaux and Patrick Stewart as
Karla. It was totally faithful to the book, and
superbly acted and filmed. What was probably most
remarkable about this production (and its sequel,
"Smiley's People") was that Guinness' portrayal
of Smiley establishes the ageing spymaster's persona
in the visual sense every bit as well as LeCarre
established it in the literary sense. It is no
coincidence, then, that Guinness' face appeared
on the covers of paperback editions of both works.
In all, a masterful adaptation of an excellent
book.

 

 

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