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Fay Grim is, on its face, a tale of espionage and intrigue told with a nod and a wink.
The Story should not be spoiled by ill informed description but suffice it to say it relates to a young mans slow but inexorable destruction and descent into espionage and treason.
Fay Grim (played brilliantly by the iconic Parker Posey) tries to track down her missing husband's notebooks, and finds herself amid conspiracies and espionage.
The plot of this enjoyable MGM musical is contrived and only occasionally amusing, dealing with espionage and romance but the focus of the film is properly pointed upon the tuneful interludes showcasing the enormously talented and athletic tap dancing Eleanor Powell, abetted by Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra, featuring Ziggy Elman, Buddy Rich and Frank Sinatra.
Plus, surprisingly enough for the time it was made, the film focuses more on crime than espionage and "Commies".
With all the on-going debate about the morality (or lack thereof) of warfare, and interest in espionage (consider the multiple Jack Ryan, Bourne, XXX, and "Mission: Impossible" productions, this would seem to be an obvious choice for release on DVD.
Forty-three years later, however, it becomes the center of worldwide attention and international espionage when valuable cobalt deposits are discovered there, and Her Majesty sends the bumbling Carlton-Browne of the Foreign Office to take charge.
"Cypher" is a cleverly conceived story about industrial espionage set in America in the not too distant future.
Directed by Samuel Fuller, who also wrote the screenplay, Pickup on South Street is a tough, brutal, well made film about a pickpocket (Richard Widmark) who inadvertently aquires top-secret microfilm and becomes a target for espionage agents.
Though it starts out intriguingly, in the end this espionage film is rather much ado about nothing.
It hurts to give any film with Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre less than "5" on a scale of "1" to "10", but BACKGROUND TO DANGER (despite their presence) is not a good World War II espionage piece.
"Double Agent 73" is an amateurish and inept movie, yet there is an honesty about its amateurishness and ineptness: you get the feeling that the people involved didn't want to cheat you, they really did try to make an espionage / action movie, they just lacked the talent and budget required.
She would definitely have been all but forgotten today, had she not been shot for espionage.
There is also the fact that the movie is deeply insecure; one feels that it would like to be a cold-war style espionage picture but does not have the courage of its convictions so tacks a cheesy and implausible action sequence onto the end.
He plays a young man, Vadassy, whose camera is used to photograph a military installation, which is the crime of espionage.
In the series, it is a provincial town where Deputy Chief Superintendent Foyle tries to solve local crimes of theft and murder, while dealing with wartime problems of black markets, sabotage and espionage.
Covers an area of espionage seldom seen in spy movies: cryptography and cryptoanalysis.
The film never creates the tense, doom-laden atmosphere of William Gibson's short story about corporate espionage in a grim near-future setting, leaving the viewer to spend a numbing hour and half with unheroic and uninteresting characters doing not much of anything.
The protagonist of the film is the very attractive Wong Chia Chi (Wei Tang) because of awkward circumstances up a resistances involved in dangerous espionage.
Fortunately, De Palma's hyperbolic, visually compelling, science fiction occult espionage thriller moves so fast that the ludicrous dialog, indifferent performances, and Swiss cheese plot don't spoil the fun.
Lee combines espionage with erotic love scenes, it's not the common pair in films nowadays but it works out for the best.
The film manages to find new ways to thrill and narrate the story; and that when the espionage thriller field has already been saturated with Hollywood super-productions; so for a French movie to succeed with half the budget and with a European sensibility is great going.
I have often imagined how the film of William Gibson's brilliant cyberpunk short story of corporate espionage and betrayal could be made.
Normally, I would not be interested in a film that is summarized as a "complex... thriller about computers and cryptography, government and espionage."
A brilliant espionage operation convinced Captain Hans Langsdorff that 1/2 the British navy was waiting for him, so he scuttled the ship in the harbor and subsequently shot himself.
A good character study (excellent rendition by Don Cheadle), a well crafted story, an action thriller film mingled with ingenious espionage and conspiracies.
Literally millions of returning Soviet émigrés and soldiers were either executed outright or sent to the gulags on various trumped-up charges like 'actions detrimental to the State' and espionage.
Nevertheless, the Japanese are portrayed as vicious, omniscient antagonists with the Nazis running a close second in this tale about pr-Pearl Harbor espionage.
"Robot Pilot" starts out like it might be positioning itself as an espionage thriller, but unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your disposition), never even comes close.
Mason is poorly miscast as a Austrian medical student accused of espionage while on vacation at a resort hotel in the south of France.
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