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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (TV Miniseries)

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

1979

John Irvin

Alec Guinness, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston, Ian Bannen ...

7.5

488

TV Series. Mystery. Thriller George Smiley has been retired for about a year when he finds a friend from the circus, his old outfit in British Intelligence sitting in his living room. He is taken to the home of an advisor to the Prime Minister on intelligence matters where he finds evidence that one of the men in the senior ranks of his old agency is a Russian spy. Smiley is asked to find him, without official access to any of the files in the Circus or letting on ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Mike Hale The New York Times	"The director John Irvin and the screenwriter Arthur Hopcraft did a lot of compressing and reordering (...) Guinness’s performance is a landmark in TV history"	POS
United Kingdom	Toby Manning The Guardian	"A riveting commie conspiracy from start to finish (...) The BBC's 1979 adaptation of John le Carré's thriller is still unmatched in its evocation of the chilly, cynical cold war era."	POS
United States	Dennis Lim Los Angeles Times	"There is something captivating about this fully imagined and inhabited world"	POS
United States	June Thomas Slate	"It’s worth sitting through the whole six hours just to see how effectively Guinness can express annoyance and dismay in a momentary glance."	POS
United States	Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"Alec Guinness, in a performance (...) Buddha-like, in its opaque yet disarming sagacity (...) [It] has lost none of its grip"	POS
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"A fine adaptation of the novel (...) Guinness embodies what 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' is really about"	POS
United States	Paul Mazursky Vanity Fair	"A brilliant TV mini-series"	POS

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