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...from the cynicism and out of the grey rain and cold, there emerges Burton's own narrow, rather seedy humanity. He shows his distaste for Control, for London. He loves, in his homely way, Nan (Claire Bloom). He predictably shows his contempt for Mundt and Fiedler, the two Communist spies, and takes satisfaction in playing the one off against the other. He shows no regret when he beats up a grocer, and only irritation at Fiedler's fate. And finally, Leamas is forced to define his relationship to senseless, inhuman intrigues of Control and Mundt...
Martin Ritt, who both produced and directed, deserves credit for his cast. Oskar Werner as Fiedler and Peter Van Eyck as Mundt are good in the court room scene, though in general Werner is rather over-done and Van Eyck wooden. Claire Bloom elicits just the right amount of love from Burton. And Burton, when he sits waiting to be interviewed for a job, when he makes contact with the Communist agent, and when he looks down from the Berlin wall at Smiley, is superb. All he has to do is whisper, "I have to go early in the morning...
...give Burton sturdy opposition, Oskar Werner, as Mundt's itchy second-in-command, makes that "clever little Jew" a prismatic study of ambition thwarted. Claire Bloom, though too prettily cast as the leftist English librarian who befriends Leamas, nonetheless plays innocence abroad with life-or-death urgency. In Spy's superblend of suspense and philosophical despair, the girl is the last to know that her lover was already a cold-war casualty when she met him. The anonymous men who live by violence, Leamas tells her savagely, "are a bunch of seedy squalid bastards, henpecked husbands, sadists, queers...
NEVER TOO LATE. Unplanned parenthood creates problems for Maureen O'Sullivan and Paul Ford, who repeat their Broadway roles as if the jokes about middle-aged love in bloom were...
...land passionately devoted to free enterprise, the U.S. has always been the best place for a man to make his million. Throughout its history-from the days of the earliest Virginia planters to the postwar bloom of electronics millionaires-the drive for fortune has been a shaping influence and a productive force. The fabled 19th century millionaires-John D. Rockefeller, Edward H. Harriman and Andrew Carnegie-all began poor. Despite their often controversial actions, they, like most American millionaires, basically enriched themselves by enriching a growing nation...