The best spy film of all time according to spies themselves

Express ^ | Sun, Aug 10, 2025 | Maria Leticia Gomes

[packrat35]

It’s my favorite with the most beautiful Bond Girl ever Danielle Bianchi.

[skepsel]

Most definitely,shame they couldn’t include “The Honorable Schoolboy” volume of the quest for Karla trilogy TV adaptation that Guiness starred in, it was brilliant.

The problem was all the remote locations, Hong Kong, Italy.

My favorite LeCarre, a close second would be “A Perfect Spy”, some what autobiographical, Pym’s childhood mirroring LeCarre’s in some respects.

There is a movie version, but I haven’t seen it.

[jerod]

Well... Graham Greene the author of 'Our Man in Havana' written in 1958 and the book that movie was based on was a spy during World War 2... So his experiences likely worked their way into his writing.

From Wiki... Throughout his life, Greene travelled to what he called the world's wild and remote places. In 1941, the travels led to his being recruited into MI6 by his sister, Elisabeth, who worked for the agency. Accordingly, he was posted to Sierra Leone during the Second World War. Kim Philby, who would later be revealed as a Soviet agent, was Greene's supervisor and friend at MI6. Greene resigned from MI6 in 1944. He later wrote an introduction to Philby's 1968 memoir, 'My Silent War'. Greene also corresponded with intelligence officer and spy, John Cairncross, for forty years and that correspondence is held by the John J. Burns Library, at Boston College.

[Vaduz]

Thanks for data good information.

[skepsel]

Spy movie spoofs are fun too; James Coburn’s Our Man Flint, Dean Marin’s Matt Helm and Rod Taylor in The Liquidator were all fun.

Q’s gadgetry in the Connery Bond movies and a crush on Moneypenny were the best things going for this little kid, dragged along by the parents to save baby sitter costs.

[jerod]

Kim Philby pulled wool over the eyes of MI6 and the CIA for decades before he was exposed as a Communist sympathizer... They let the Russians have him in a spy exchange because of their embarrassment, but they truly should’ve shot Philby for his treachery.