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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Again the hero is a nice man caught up in a nasty business, a middle-aged British agent (James Mason) assigned to check out an official (Robert Flemyng) in the Foreign Office who has been anonymously denounced as a Russian spy. Same day investigation starts, subject is found dead. Police report suicide, Mason suspects murder. Suspicion leads down a corpse-strewn trail of betrayal that ends at the hero's own door. The dead man has been betrayed by his wife (Simone Signoret), a Russian agent. The wife in turn is betrayed by the spymaster (Maximilian Schell) who employs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Living Lies | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

Scenarist Paul Dehn, who also wrote the script for Spy, this time too often jumps the main track of the tale to lollygag along a branch line, and Director Sidney Lumet (The Group) has either miscast or misdirected some of his principals. Mason and Signoret, however, are pathetically impressive as a couple of mice wandering in a maze designed for rats. And as a whole, the film convincingly elucidates in a modern instance why Dante consigned traitors to the very pit of hell. Le Carre similarly perceives treason as a spiritual attitude underlying the political act. His traitors are liars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Living Lies | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...round the clock; a single naked light bulb glared endlessly over his cot. He could not tell night from day. He devoured all the newspapers he could get, eagerly sifting every line of print to find his name. He did crossword puzzles and browsed through dozens of books (Perry Mason mysteries, sexy novels, the Warren Report, an abstruse volume of erotica titled Virginity-Pre-Nuptial Rites and Rituals). He played gin rummy indefatigably with his jailers, who claimed he cheated. He did situps, pushups, and stood on his head for exercise. He seemed out of his mind much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Assassination: A Nonentity for History | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...Mason Young converted John Ritchie's pass to put Princeton on the score-board with a little more than a minute left in the second period...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Skaters Tie for Ivy Lead By Trouncing Tigers, 6-2 | 1/9/1967 | See Source »

TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9 p.m. to conclusion). A poverty-stricken British naval commander (James Mason) concocts an ingenious plot to have the newspapers call him a traitor so he can sue for libel in A Touch of Larceny (1960), co-starring George Sanders and Vera Miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 30, 1966 | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

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