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My guest for this month is Jake Desaulniers, and he’s joined me to discuss the film I chose for him, the 1965 cold war spy thriller The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. You can follow the show on Twitter @cinemagadfly.

Show notes:

• My original review of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
• Although I say at the beginning that this is the second episode, it’s really the third
• The film stars Richard Burton, AKA Mr. Elizabeth Taylor
• It’s based on the book of the same name, by John le Carré, AKA David John Moore Cornwell
• MI6 is a real world British spy agency
• John le Carré didn’t like Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels
• Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy is another film based on a le Carré novel
• Dr. No, From Russia With Love, and Goldfinger, are very different in tone from this film
• Technically 1970 was halfway into the Cold War
• I remember when the Berlin Wall fell, I even brought a piece back for my mom
• The film opens at the infamous Checkpoint Charlie
• The British Communist Party also ended in 1991
• The film takes place nine years after the McCarthy Hearings
• I always notice when the title is in the film, ever since Family Guy
• British labour exchanges have existed since 1909
• The Criterion Blu-ray is the best way to watch this film
• My review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy from Letterboxd
• British cold war spy thriller television show The Game
• Jason Bourne is a superhero
• Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation definitely didn’t pretend to be about anything
• Apparently putting Scotch in your coffee is called Highland coffee
• The director who didn’t get along with Richard Burton was Martin Ritt

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