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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2 Disc Set) (1979)

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Director:

John Irvin

Starring:

Alec Guinness, Joss Ackland, Ian Bannen

Genres:

Television, Thriller, Mystery-Suspense, Espionage

Origin:

United Kingdom

Certificate:

PG

Running Time:

350 min

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2 Disc Set)

synopsis


Who can spy on the spies? Some say George Smiley is in innocent retirement. Others say he was sacked after a Czech scandal. But all agree that nobody ever leaves the "circus" without some unfinished business. Brought out of retirement to trace an enemy infiltrator in the department where he was once the prize employee, the shy and retiring master of espionage moves forwards to investigate and finds himself going backwards over very old ground. Sir Alec Guiness is the definitive Smiley in this superb BBC adaptation of John le Carre's gripping novel.

member reviews

 
Classic spy series

23 May 2009
member rating

Having just re-read the book, this series is authentic to its theme, plot and tone. Alec Guinness is perfect in the role of George Smiley: understated, underneath the 'vulnerable' exterior a sharp and unrelenting mind. This series comes from the days when viewers were respected as intellectually able to follow a plot. It also is a 'time capsule' of basic production values - and yet it still works. If you enjoy old school spy stories, I recommend this.


 
Should not be tinkered with
Sally Meats
03 June 2012
member rating

Why remake this classic? The production is brilliant but this version was made so long ago that it did not have to struggle to be true to the plot, the society and the times. It was a television series, and is shown as such in separate episodes with a bit of recapping at the start of each. But it could have been easily joined up seamlessly into a full length film. The old world is brought to life by an author who saw it first hand and the espionage business at closer range than most of us. If you like your spies from private schools and Oxbridge, silly names and all, this is the stuff for you. We shall never see their like again (we can only hope).


 
 

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