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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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4hrs 50min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1979
Director:
John Irvin
Distributor:
Acorn Media
Starring:
Alec Guinness, Michael Aldridge, Bernard Hepton  ...more
Synopsis: Living a premature and somewhat humbling retirement, elderly British spy George Smiley (Alec Guinness) is abruptly resurrected by his former boss Lacon (Anthony Bate) with an ultra-secret mission: find the double agent in the ranks of the British Secret Service. Is it the pompous head of service, Percy Alleline (Michael Aldridge)? The blowsy Bland (Terence Rigby)? The shifty Toby Esterhase (Bernard Hepdon)? Or perhaps the urbane Bill Haydon (Ian Richardson)? Pushed into retirement by a scandal caused ... Full Synopsis
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Nick Sambides, Jr., AMG Review
Complex but compelling, this miniseries is based upon one of John Le Carré's greatest works and serves as a grand summing-up for the late Sir Alec Guinness, one of Britain's greatest actors. Guinness literally is Smiley: Le Carré said that Guinness served as a template for the character's cunning and mournful rectitude. In anyone else's hands, Smiley might have seemed a blank and lifeless character, ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Alec Guinness
George Smiley
Michael Aldridge
Percy Alleline
Bernard Hepton
Toby Esterhase
Ian Richardson
Bill Haydon
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