christoph404

Had a look at this film which I hadn't seen in years, was quite surprised at the people who kept popping up in the cast! Mia Farrow plays a photographer and it looks like her London studio is the same interior used by Antonioni in the film "Blow Up". The glimpses of 1969 London and Berlin are quite fascinating worth watching for that alone though the storyline is bit turgid. Laurence Harvey reprsises his tortured performance from "The Manchurian Candidate" and I nearly fell off my chair to see Peter Cook in a significant serious role, I had forgotten he was in this, he's not bad at all as the public school MI5 agent with his nose constantly in a girlie mag. He has some good dramatic scenes with Harvey. Richard O'Sullivan has a small part as Mia Farrow's fey actor friend/companion. And Tom Courtney does his best to be menacing and scary as Harvey's co operative in Berlin. All in all a very odd film, Director Anthony Mann died during production and Harvey took over the directorial task to get the film finished. Its very downbeat, depressing almost, interesting to see it again though.

batman

I watched this again recently (after many many years) and found it fascinating. It reminded me of Montgomery Clift's last film The Defector with it's gloomy view of the twilight world of spies et al.

Bats.

"Do you know why fattries are called fattries .... it's because they are big and people make things in them."