Movie # 2

Numer Two is The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, with Richard Burton.  Made in 1965, it is a trip down memory lane for me as I was beginning my working life in London at that same time.  In black and white, it is extremely emotive of the age and the type of realistic spying that must have gone on against our mortal foes the Soviets.  In this case they were the East Germans.  Burton plays Leamus, a seedy, somewhat defrocked master spy who is out in the cold.  He is worn and tired and a drunk.  But he can still perform one last feat for the Circus (the name of Britain's most secret organisers.)  Even he doesn't really understand the full extent of the plot and the final scene is perhaps his effort to finally come in from the cold and join the warmth of a human relationship. The music by Sol Kaplan is a wonderful accompaniment to this rather grim, but riveting film. This is one of those movies that can be watched over and over again, and I have certainly done that.  This is the official trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QxILURQbgs