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Non-Bond Spy/Thriller Flicks that are Great (or merely interesting)
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I saw one years & years ago that was fascinating- Code Name: Heraclitus. It had the strangest editing style I ever came across, cutting abruptly front to side & back. I'd love to see it again.
Then there was this strange little one starring Kate Capshaw called Code Name: Dancer. Another one I haven't seen since the 90's. I remember it being interesting.
Some actual great ones are Parallax View, Marathon Man, Ice Station Zebra, North By Northwest, Charade (man I love this one), The Conversation, Ronin, Patriot Games, Clear & Present Danger, Hunt For Red October, Tailor Of Panama....
When I was a wee laddie I saw Puppet On A Chain & When Eight Bells Toll at drive-ins. I so don't remember them. I think I need to fix that.
Got some good ones I missed?
Then there was this strange little one starring Kate Capshaw called Code Name: Dancer. Another one I haven't seen since the 90's. I remember it being interesting.
Some actual great ones are Parallax View, Marathon Man, Ice Station Zebra, North By Northwest, Charade (man I love this one), The Conversation, Ronin, Patriot Games, Clear & Present Danger, Hunt For Red October, Tailor Of Panama....
When I was a wee laddie I saw Puppet On A Chain & When Eight Bells Toll at drive-ins. I so don't remember them. I think I need to fix that.
Got some good ones I missed?
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My honorary Bond film.
:P
Oddly enough this is the only spy series I could see doing a crossover with Bond. Plus it would have been really cool to see Connery and Caine in the same movie.
They played together in 'The Man Who Would Be King', didn't they?
No it isn't. Jim Phelps (at least the Jim Phelps I know from watching him in two series over the years) would never have done that !
One of my favourite is "Telefon", by Don Siegel, starring Charles Bronson and Lee Remick as KGB operatives on the hunt for a Soviet hardliner (played by Bond alumni Donald Pleasance) creating chaos in the US using brainwashed operatives.
Foreign correspondent
the 39 steps
The Man Who Knew Too Much
secret agent
The Lady vanishes [one of my favorites]
I never really saw Voight's Phelps as the same person as Graves' Phelps. Just someone with the same name.
#-o
Maybe they should have called him Dan Briggs. ;)
Love these films too @Murdock. I regularly listen to the Ipcress File soundtrack.
On a more serious front with less action there is THE CONTENDER, SYRIANA (very topical given current Islamic issues), & MICHAEL CLAYTON
There's also the BOURNE IDENTITY TV mini series from the 80's starring Richard Chamberlain & Jaclyn Smith (80's so it has cheese but it was good).
As cited in the introductory comment, this 1974 conspiracy/paranoia film is a gem.
A great performance by Warren Beatty. The backdrop is Seattle and the assassination of a political figure at the Space Needle. Informed by the conspiracy theories that hung over the Kennedy assassination, this is a sparse, tense, and chilling film. Very unsettling.
So far two people have been assassinated, a child has been kidnapped, MI6 and "C" have gotten involved, a body guard has been shot, and I'm only halfway through episode two. It has a very intelligent, modern, honest, and verrry espionage-like touch to it that I currently find very exciting.
Check it out.
:D
A stylish Hitchcock film that anticipates the Bond films by a couple of years. Worth carefully watching how the main character accidentally gets mistaken for a government agent.
I forgot to mention that in The Honorable Woman, the actor who played Mitchel from Quantum of Solace has a large role. Considering he was Craig's stuntman who supposedly got the Bond role in the chaos of production, he's an excellent actor in this series.
Awesome list! =D>
Thanks! Yours too! I have seen, loved, and own most of those (with the exception of Tailor of Panama and Parallax View and that is only because I haven't seen them yet). Oh, and since you have a John Lecarre adaptation on the list, I will add "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold" with Richard Burton (and a bit part by Bernard Lee), and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy with Gary Oldman :)
Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others, 2006 Germany)
Nikita (La Femme Nikita, 1990 France)
Funeral in Berlin (1966)
Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
The Tailor of Panama (2001)
The Fourth Protocol (1987)
The Odessa File (1974)
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
The Jackal (1997)
Ronin (1998)
Operation: Daybreak (1975)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Patriot Games (1992)
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
Die Hard (1988)
Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990)
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
Die Hard 4.0 (2007)
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
Croupier (1998)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
The Spy in Black (1939)
The Riddle of the Sands (1979)
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935)
Yellow Canary (1943)
The French Connection (1971)
French Connection II (1975)
The Parallax View (1974)
The Conversation (1974)
The Devil's Own (1997)
The Krays (1990)
Farewell, My Lovely (1944)
Hanna (2011)
Our Man in Havana (1959)
The Third Man (1949)
Odd Man Out (1947)
The Getaway (1972)
Bullitt (1968)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Get Carter (1971)
The Human Factor (1979)