WHEN A SPY-DOESN'T KNOW HE'S OUT IN THE COLD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300290010-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 14, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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"AGENT 8i'i' aiid "UNDER- Bo garde, is blissfully unaware while porters, waiters, hotel Sylva Koscina makes a defect-
~.' 11'QIULD INFORMERS" that he is a spy in the first clerks, factory workers, and able, lithe,-figured spy.- and ro-
c:? iplace. Through the chicanery Czech secret police cast fur- mantic interest for Bogarde,+,
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^A,,ant 81A." A screenplay by Lukas, of British Intelligence ellief tive, suspicious glances his. for, one-but the full potentlal
'; Hrller, directed by Ralph Thomas, Robert Morley (and Morley 1s way. of the film isn't realized.,
nrotlu by Berry E. Box, a Wor But it 11 at this point- that "Agent 8%" never quite ba-i
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. ? he's.workii g as a glass-goods the light-hearted, amusing ..comes 9. ; t
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utcs.? With the following cast, Salesman. - - - flavor is -abruptly dissipated,
? Dick Bogarde Nicolas Whistler
Svlvo Koscina Viosto Simenova "To be.. sure.: he's slightly., and once 83/4 finds out he's The associate feature, "Un-1
~?' Rnbrri Morley -colonel eunufte puzzled '.at. Morleys' , peculiar actually a you-can-get-killed derworld Informers," looks at
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McKern iL"Underworldinformers Ascreen. instruotions..Bogarde is to fly; agent, with everybody playing'. Britain's "snouts," those gri-
~play by Alun Falconer, based on the to
navel "Death of a Snout" by Douglas Czechoslovakia for the for keeps, things take on a my characters who sell infor- a
Warner, directed by Ken Annakin, firm,.. and, for openers, he's% quasi-serious turn, for the motion to the police. One such 1
wolter Reade-sreli,Inc. Release. told to . use an . identifying worse, even though comedy is snout gets "shopped," done in,
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Chief Inspector Johnnoe. Nigel Patrick'
Maw Johnnoo,.;,Can,erine. Woodville Its funny. when most of the:: be relished: there is Robert; after the mob, but finds him
Malsle ............... M Whiting people he app> oaches merely.. Morley's all-too-brief straight- self beautifully framed and
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Barrie Hoyle Darfen Nesbnt shrug their smoulders or, act faced frolicking (he has thrown off the squad, I
Leon sale.... .. Fronk Finlay -bewildered. merely to stand there with The plot and the charac
Bostwick '...Harry Andrews
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By Robert Salmaggi '.tact., in Czechoslovakia has his to prompt laughter); Leo direction lags, but the acting
fr In "Agent 83/4," British been instructed to' slip the McKern's tight-lipped dress- Is first-rate. Nigel Patrick ", is
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