![]() From Kipling on, British writers like John Buchan, Graham Greene, John le Carré, and Ian Fleming, and directors like Hitchcock and Carol Reed have dominated spy fiction and inspired scores of imitations and spoofs around the world.īetween 19, when Greene was the movie critic for The Spectator and the short-lived weekly Night and Day, no spy film won higher praise from him than our series entry Knight Without Armour (1937), starring Robert Donat as a British agent and Marlene Dietrich as the Russian aristocrat he steers through the chaos of the Bolshevik Revolution. Rudyard Kipling dubbed super-power espionage “The Great Game” in his 1901 novel Kim, and the phrase has stuck because intelligence services continue to position operatives like chess pieces and turn countries into game boards. Spy films have juggled these exciting ingredients ever since Fritz Lang branded the genre in 1928 with Spies, and variations ranging from burlesque to tragedy permeate the nine films in our latest series, Spy Games. Jeopardy escalates second to second until our heroes and heroines escape by the skin of their teeth. Patriotic masterminds choreograph capers from secret headquarters while dashing secret agents execute their plans by the light of flashing blades and gunfire. ![]()
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