Author Frederick Forsyth Lists His Top Spy Moviesx
Upon the release of ‘Bridge of Spies,’ ‘The Day of the Jackal’ author Frederick Forsyth, 77 anni, whose new memoir ‘The Outsider’ details his own past as an MI-6 operative, reveals his favorite screen depictions of the world he knows very well.
Frederick Forsyth is the acclaimed author of such bestselling spy thrillers as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File and The Devil’s Alternative has just published The Outsider, a memoir about his life.
I have read them all.
It turns out Mr. Forsyth’s real-life story is as thrilling as his books.
He was the youngest pilot in the RAF, a celebrated journalist in such global hot spots as East Berlin, Nigeria during its civil war and Ireland, and an operative for British Intelligence.
Along the way, arms dealers in Germany threatened him, the Israelis sold him secrets and the British had him smuggling packages across the Iron Curtain.
In conjunction with the release of The Outsider and the opening of the new Steven Spielberg-Tom Hanks thriller Bridge of Spies, Mr. Forsyth picked his 5 favorite spy movies for his readers.
They are as follows:
1. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965)
“It was the first movie that said there is no glamour in espionage. It’s grubby, dishonorable people doing dishonorable things, with trickery and deception and lying through your teeth. And it’s got a magnificent performance by Richard Burton.”
2. The Ipcress File (1965)
“Back then, spy movies presumed that anybody who was a British spy would have a beautiful, posh accent, and suddenly here was this insolent cockney, Harry Palmer [Michael Caine], which was groundbreaking.”
3. Funeral in Berlin (1966)
“When I was a journalist, I was the only Western correspondent in East Berlin in the year after the Wall went up in 1961. Funeral in Berlin was about an agent (played by Caine) being pitted against the East German regime on the other side of the wall. It was memory lane for me to see familiar streets, Checkpoint Charlie and the wall.”
4. Three Days of the Condor (1975)
“I’d always watch [Robert] Redford. [And] the wonderful John Houseman plays the director of the CIA. Houseman is actually a Romanian refugee. Where he learned English, God knows, because he always spoke with this extraordinary accent straight out of Oxford University.”
5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
“The story was a ground breaker because one of the team of spies was a traitor. Which one? In real life, James Jesus Angleton, the CIA’s counterintelligence chief from 1954 to 1975, became convinced there was a high-ranking traitor inside the CIA. He went to his grave convinced.
Have some fun read his new book and see Steven Spielberg’s new thriller Bridge of Spies.
Have a terrific week.
HeffX-LTN
Paul Ebeling
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