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The Looking Glass War (film)

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'The Looking Glass War' is a 1970 British neo-noir action-thriller film directed by Frank Pierson based on the 1965 novel by John le Carr 'The Looking Glass War'.

Plot



Polish defector Leiser is offered a chance of UK citizenship by MI6, but only if he agrees to undertake a highly dangerous espionage mission behind the "iron curtain" in East Germany. Leiser's role is to replace an MI6 agent who has already been murdered, and to gather photographic intelligence on a covert East German rocket system - in violation of international agreements. The mission goes wrong from the start when, shortly after arriving in East Germany, Leiser is forced to kill a young East German guard, and later murders a lorry driver who makes homosexual advances. Leiser's objective is further undermined when he falls in love with an East German woman looking for a way out of the country.

Cast



*Christopher Jones as Leiser

*Pia Degermark as The Girl

*Ralph Richardson as LeClerc

*Paul Rogers as Haldane

*Anthony Hopkins as John Avery

*Susan George as Susan

*Ray McAnally as Undersecretary of State

*Robert Urquhart as Johnson

*Anna Massey as Avery's Wife

*Vivian Pickles as Mrs. King

*Maxine Audley as Mrs. LeClerc

*Cyril Shaps as East German Detective

*Michael Robbins as Truck Driver

*Timothy West as Taylor

*Frederick Jaeger as The Pilot

*Peter Swanwick as Finnish Policeman

*Paul Maxwell as CIA Man

*Guy Deghy as Fritsche

*Ernest Walder as Radio Engineer

*Patrick Wright as East German Policeman (VoPo)

*Sylva Langova as East German Woman

*David Scheur as Russian Officer

*Allan McClelland as Doctor

*Angela Down as Chelsea Girl

*Robert Wilde as English Policeman

*Nicholas Stewart as German Boy

*Linda Hedger as Taylor's Child

*Russell Lewis as Avery's Child

See also



* List of British films of 1970


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