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The best spy film of all time according to spies themselves
Express ^ | Sun, Aug 10, 2025 | Maria Leticia Gomes

Posted on 08/10/2025 3:30:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway
Somewhere out there there is a worse writer then David John Moore Cornwell and with more daddy issues.

But I have not read any of that person's work. Thankfully.

61 posted on 08/10/2025 4:35:43 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: doorgunner69

I liked all the Austin Powers movies.


62 posted on 08/10/2025 4:39:42 PM PDT by central_va (The I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: edwinland

“He didn’t know Lapin meant rabbit in French. “ Ireena


63 posted on 08/10/2025 4:40:55 PM PDT by Track9 (Make haste slowly. )
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To: nickcarraway
Not Hudson Hawk?

Oh, the Pope warned me never to trust the CIA!

64 posted on 08/10/2025 4:49:49 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (I refuse to call the left "progressive" because I do not see slavery to the government as progress.)
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To: Billthedrill

The reality of the Lotus Esprit was pretty funny. I saw the above water version of that at a Brit car event in Norcross (N ATL suburb) about 10 years ago. Basically a Esprit body over a John boat with maybe a 25 hp motor to move it around. The underwater stuff I think was all plastic models.


65 posted on 08/10/2025 4:53:23 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: nickcarraway

Goldfinger and the other Connery Bond flicks.


66 posted on 08/10/2025 4:55:00 PM PDT by Trump_Triumphant (“They recognized Him in the breaking of the Bread”)
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To: nickcarraway

To this I’ll add “The Man Outside”, starring Van Heflin.


67 posted on 08/10/2025 4:57:40 PM PDT by VAarea
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To: edwinland

I like “Tinker, Tailor” as well. Excellent casting, and the performances really worked well.

I have to go back and review the list, but I also thought “The Lives of Others” was a spectacularly powerful film.


68 posted on 08/10/2025 5:03:10 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: nickcarraway

Ok. So the article is a paid plug for A Most Wanted Man.

Fine. Maybe on my list, maybe not after this pathetic article by ‘entertainment reporter’ Maria Gomes.

I’d like to know the other 14 films.

“FAIL,” Maria.


69 posted on 08/10/2025 5:03:39 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: edwinland

My wife and I both really liked “Slow Horses” (Apple TV) with Gary Oldman as the lead! I very much enjoyed that series...and I hear they are doing another season.


70 posted on 08/10/2025 5:06:51 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: dfwgator

Oh yes. To me, one of the most powerful scenes in that movie is the woman looking through her keyhole at the activity in the hall.


71 posted on 08/10/2025 5:08:45 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: logi_cal869

Hahahahahah I had the exact same response! Where are all the others?


72 posted on 08/10/2025 5:09:20 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: dfwgator; DesertRhino; Dr. Sivana

Gene Hackman was mentioned, who pretty much played the same guy in “The Conversation” (1974) and “Enemy of the State” (1994). The way he left us was tragic and odd, too.

Then we have the fictional threat of “Hail HYDRA” in so many Marvel movies. Good thing we don’t really have a secret government within the government; right?

Hold on; the dog is barking at the door...


73 posted on 08/10/2025 5:10:59 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (be American or Be Gone)
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To: edwinland

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74 posted on 08/10/2025 5:11:05 PM PDT by Taffini ( Mr. Pippen and Mr. Waffles do not approve and neither do I)
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To: central_va

Never seen one of those, whatever they are


75 posted on 08/10/2025 5:12:39 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: rlmorel

The Honecker joke scene, where the officer laughs with the joke, and then asks, “Name?”


76 posted on 08/10/2025 5:13:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Carry_Okie

...and it makes a great ring tone!


77 posted on 08/10/2025 5:15:31 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: doorgunner69

You got to see the Spy Who Shagged Me.


78 posted on 08/10/2025 5:17:58 PM PDT by central_va (The I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: nickcarraway

I imagined “The Counterfeit Traitor” to be realistic — it involves lying and not much glamour.


79 posted on 08/10/2025 5:19:40 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: dfwgator

Very powerful movie. Several weeks ago, I visited the army museum in Fort Belvoir in Washington DC and spoke with one of the docent there for about an hour. He had served in Germany during the 60s as an intelligence officer, and he thought that was one of the most powerful movies out there as well.


80 posted on 08/10/2025 5:23:05 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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