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Right director to helm Cold War film
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... to discover which of his former colleagues was a Russian spy. A mini-series was made back in 1979, starring Alec Guinness who shot the project between his work on Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back . Peter Morgan has worked on the script. He is ... Comment?
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Le Carre Lets Tomas Alfredson In To Direct 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'
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... and the second time the novel has been brought to the screen.A The first was for a BBC mini-series starring Alec Guinness. The story is about an aging, retired spy named George Smiley who's brought back to active duty to help identify a possible ... Comment?
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July 9, 2009 - John le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy , which was turned into the classic BBC miniseries of the same name in 1979 starring Alec Guinness , is headed for the screen again -- only this time it'll be the big screen, and it'll have Let the Right One In helmer Tomas Alfredson behind the camera. Comment?
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Let the Right One In Director to Adapt John Le Carre Novel
... cousins'. Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy has been adapted twice before: by the BBC for television in 1979 with Alec Guinness starring as George Smiley, and then by BBC Radio 4 in 1988. A 1982 BBC mini-series later adapted Smiley's People (again with ... Comment?
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Tomas Alfredson Set to Direct 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'
... of the British Secret Intelligence Service. In the 1970s, it was adapted into a British TV series that starred Alec Guinness as retired intelligence officer George Smiley. "Tomas is one of the most hotly sought-after and gifted directors in the ... Comment?
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy film remake
John Le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was made into a television series in 1979 starring the cinematic great Alec Guinness, yes he did do films other than Star Wars. Comment?
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Tomas Alfredson to Direct Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
... the highest echelons of the British Secret Intelligence Service. A 1970s British television series starred Alec Guinness as George Smiley the retired former British intelligence officer called in to track down the double agent within the spy agency. ... Comment?
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Alfredson to direct 'Tinker' for WT
... to discover which of his former colleagues is a Russian spy. The BBC made it into a TV miniseries, starring Alec Guinness, in 1979. It aired Stateside as part of PBS' "Great Performances" series in 1980. Pic will mark Alfredson's English-language ... Comment?
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Kind Hearts and Coronets: 60th anniversary of a classic
Kind Hearts and Coronets, starring Alec Guinness, was the masterwork of alcoholic maverick Robert Hamer. Comment?
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Dan Atkinson: Pay attention to bank regulation - there'll be questions later
... lobbying is simple but effective, and recalls the rotating photograph frame in the ship's cabin in the 1953 Alec Guinness comedy The Captain's Paradise. With two different women in two different ports, Guinness is able to switch the picture round to ... Comment?
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Lamborghini Murci lago LP 670-4 SV
... seen The Bridge on the River Kwai hundreds of times, which means I'm also sure you remember the box in which Alec Guinness was made to live. Well, imagine being in there, on a sweaty day, while doing a full SAS workout, at 170mph. That's what it was ... Comment?
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Boy and his dragon pleasantly familiar, but too weak
... was acting up." "Well, Bob, a tablespoon of Galbatorix ought to fix that right up.") Jeremy Irons holds the Alec Guinness spot as the crusty outsider who mentors the young hero. Irons gives dependable crust here, but as his character pines for a ... Comment?
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... perhaps stems from the fact that, although the film is from the same period that gave us all the best-known Alec Guinness movies from Ealing Films, it was made by the less-legendary Associated British Picture Corporation. It's also only partly a ... Comment?
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Cops and guns are best part of a Public Enemiesa
There's a great gag in the comedy "Murder by Death," where blind butler Alec Guinness takes an empty tureen out to the dinner table; when he returns to the kitchen, he excoriates the cook for sending him out with "a bowl of HOT NOTHING!" "Hot nothing" is what director and co-writer Michael Mann is dishing out to audiences with the much-anticipated ... Comment?
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... career. In 1957, "The Bridge on the River KWAI" won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. It featured Alec Guinness before he became a Jedi Knight. That same year, the comedy-Western television series "Maverick" made its debut starring James ... Comment?
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Myles Strasser column: Hollywood war classics provoke
... resurrect themselves. 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957): The Academy Award winner for Best Actor went to Alec Guinness, who played a captured British officer obsessed with building a bridge for the Japanese that would display the superiority of ... Comment?
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As graduate-school alumni and several Nobel-nominated professors have noted, Alec Guinness and Queen Latifah don't look anything alike and, as performers, they are polar opposites. Comment?
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Wirral youths use vending machines to get around smoking ban
... it without being challenged by a member of staff. Latest Wirral News Wirral prisoner of war immortalised by Alec Guinness in Bridge On The River Kwai honoured in new exhibition A PRISONER of War whose life was celebrated in the famous movie The ... Comment?
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Wirral health service's pledge to stop elderly abuse
... to financially, physically and psychologically. Latest Wirral News Wirral prisoner of war immortalised by Alec Guinness in Bridge On The River Kwai honoured in new exhibition A PRISONER of War whose life was celebrated in the famous movie The Bridge ... Comment?
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Wirral prisoner of war immortalised by Alec Guinness in Bridge On The ...
... railway and was awarded the OBE for his conduct as a PoW. His spell in the PoW camp was immortalised by actor Alec Guinness in the Oscar-winning film about the dreadful conditions endured by prisoners forced to build the bridge. Lt Col Toosey is one ... Comment?
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