Spies on Film
The files below offer unique resources and reviews of movie spies
brought to you by the author of Beyond Bond: Spies in Film and
Fiction and Onscreen and Undercover: The Ultimate Book
of Movie Espionage
Check out the interviews with film producers, directors, and actors.
Here, you’ll find reviews of the best and rarest of spy
films and “Spy-ographies” of some of the best in the
business. Here, you’ll not only learn about the best from the
past but what’s coming to a theatre near you.
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Spy Movie Resources and Reviews ~
► A Spy Movie Without
Pictures – Inside the Instrumental Soundscape of Black
Tie Spy
► Music Review –
Alberto Iglesias – Tinker, Tailor,
Soldier, Spy – Posted at
BlogCritics
► A Decade in Review – The Best Spy Films, Part
1 (2000-2004), by Craig Arthur, Wesley Britton, David E. Foster,
Anders Frejdh, Amanda Ohlke, Paul Rowlands – PDF file
► A Decade in Review – The Best Spy Films,
Part 2 (2004-2009), by Craig Arthur, Wesley Britton, David E.
Foster, Anders Frejdh, Amanda Ohlke, Paul Rowlands – PDF
file
► The Movie Spy’s Bookshelf – A Selective
Bibliography – Posted at
Spy
Wise Blog
► The Indispensables – The Best 30 Spy
Films of All Time –
Posted at Spy
Wise Blog
► Very Honorable Mentions – More Spy Film
Recommendations –
Posted at Spy
Wise Blog
► Neglected Nuggets and Obscure Classics –
Collecting Rare Spy Films –
Posted at Spy
Wise Blog
► Killers, Traitors, and 007 – The Influence on and
Failures of Alfred Hitchcock –
Posted at Spy
Wise Blog
► The Sixty-Minute 007 – On the Trail of Bulldog
Drummond –
Posted at Spy
Wise Blog
► Charles McGraw, Biography of a Film Noir Tough
Guy – Posted at CinemaRetro
► Ice Station
Zebra – a tale of spies, scientists, and a submarine,
by Roger Langley
Spy-ographies ~
► Snarling and Skulking – A Spy-ography of
Donald Sutherland –
Posted at Spy
Wise Blog
► From Harry Palmer to Austin Powers –
A Spy-ography of Michael Caine –
Posted at Spy
Wise Blog
► The Rogue Director – A Spy-ography of
Fritz Lang –
Posted at Spy
Wise Blog
► From Madman to Icon
– A Spy-ography of Peter Lorre
The Ronald Payne Hollywood Files ~
► Sex, Scotch, and
Wild Geese – A Few Drinks with Richard
Burton, by Ronald Payne
► Tying Spies to the
Railroad Tracks – Marion Davies and William Randolph
Hearst, by Ronald Payne
► In the Kitchen with
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, and Cybil Shepherd – A Hollywood
Cook Shares Some Secrets, by Ronald Payne
► The John Wayne Movie
That Never Was – John Ford, James Ellsworth, and
Marine, by Ronald Payne
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