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...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. The grey nether world of espionage, in a masterly re-creation by Director Martin Ritt (Hud) with Richard Burton as the disillusioned British agent on a cruelly subtle mission behind the Wall. Oskar Werner is his East German quarry...
...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. This strong, stark adaptation of John le Carre's novel has Richard Burton giving his best screen performance as a burnt-out British agent sent to set a diabolical trap for a tireless foe (Oskar Werner) in East Germany...
Richard Burton, at his very best, gets sturdy opposition from Oskar Werner in a skillful version of the John le Carré thriller about a British Intelligence man who poses as a defector to East Germany...
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...
Some Hollywood movies tried for foreign forms; for example, Sidney Lumet's The Pawnbroker, self-conscious despite Rod Steiger's virtuoso performance. Ship of Fools, by the overrated Stanley Kramer, was saved by the performances of three foreign stars, Simone Signoret, Vivien Leigh and Oskar Werner. Nothing But a Man, on the other hand, was persuasively unpretentious: it took a stronger, warmer, more objective look at contemporary Negro life in the U.S. than any other film to date...