One major casualty of the Cold War were great spy movies. Somehow the world of spies worked better in the context of the US-USSR battle. Now spy movies are about terrorists and, quite frankly, terrorists don't make for great villains. They don't because they are of a one track mind, and quite frankly, not very interesting. With the Cold War you had moles, people double crossing each other, double agents and truly interesting characters.
I was reminded of that last night as I watched this excellent 1967 movie starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer. There is so much to enjoy here. The Cold War antics.
There's a Texan who's a religious fanatic and sees the world in terms of us against them and wants to start WWIII (hmmmm...)There are some nice action sequences, but it's all about intelligence, about outsmarting your opponent. Damn I miss this kind of movie.
Try catching this film playing on Showtime at odd hours.
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