The Looking Glass War (film)
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| The Looking Glass War | |
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| Directed by | Frank Pierson |
| Written by | Frank Pierson |
| Based on | The Looking Glass War by John le Carré |
| Produced by | John Box |
| Starring | Christopher Jones Pia Degermark Ralph Richardson |
| Cinematography | Austin Dempster |
| Edited by | Willy Kemplen |
| Music by | Angela Morley (as Wally Stott) |
| Color process | Eastmancolor |
Production company | Frankovich Productions |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Languages | English German |
The Looking Glass War is a 1970 British neo-noir action-thriller film directed by Frank Pierson based on the 1965 novel by John le Carré The Looking Glass War.
Plot[]
Polish defector Leiser is offered a chance of UK citizenship by MI6, but only if he agrees to undertake a highly dangerous espionage mission behind the "iron curtain" in East Germany. Leiser's role is to replace an MI6 agent who has already been murdered, and to gather photographic intelligence on a covert East German rocket system - in violation of international agreements. The mission goes wrong from the start when, shortly after arriving in East Germany, Leiser is forced to kill a young East German guard, and later murders a lorry driver who makes homosexual advances. Leiser's objective is further undermined when he falls in love with an East German woman looking for a way out of the country.
Cast[]
- Christopher Jones as Leiser
- Pia Degermark as The Girl
- Ralph Richardson as LeClerc
- Paul Rogers as Haldane
- Anthony Hopkins as John Avery
- Susan George as Susan
- Ray McAnally as Undersecretary of State
- Robert Urquhart as Johnson
- Anna Massey as Avery's Wife
- Vivian Pickles as Mrs. King
- Maxine Audley as Mrs. LeClerc
- Cyril Shaps as East German Detective
- Michael Robbins as Truck Driver
- Timothy West as Taylor
- Frederick Jaeger as The Pilot
- Peter Swanwick as Finnish Policeman
- Paul Maxwell as CIA Man
- Guy Deghy as Fritsche
- Ernest Walder as Radio Engineer
- Patrick Wright as East German Policeman (VoPo)
- Sylva Langova as East German Woman
- David Scheur as Russian Officer
- Allan McClelland as Doctor
- Angela Down as Chelsea Girl
- Robert Wilde as English Policeman
- Nicholas Stewart as German Boy
- Linda Hedger as Taylor's Child
- Russell Lewis as Avery's Child
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- 1970 films
- British films
- British spy films
- Cold War spy films
- Films based on works by John le Carré
- Films directed by Frank Pierson
- 1970s thriller drama films
- 1970s spy films
- 1970s action thriller films
- 1970s English-language films
- 1970s German-language films
- Films based on British novels
- British action thriller films
- British thriller drama films
- Films about the Secret Intelligence Service
- Columbia Pictures films
- 1970 drama films
- Action thriller film stubs
- Films set in East Germany
- Films about the KGB
- 1970s multilingual films
- British multilingual films