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DVD

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Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy

Call Number

  • DVD DRAMA (EAS, WSQ)

Languages

Closed-captioned.

Performers

Alec Guinness, Ian Richardson, Michael Aldridge, Joss Ackland, Ian Bannen, Bernard Hepton, Terence Rigby, Michael Jayston, Hywel Bennett, Anthony Bate.

Publication Information

Silver Spring, MD : Acorn Media, [2011]

Physical Description

3 videodiscs (ca. 324 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

No doubt remains: a mole has infiltrated the Circus, code name for the British Secret Intelligence Service. It can only be one of four men operating at the very highest level. Sidelined agent George Smiley is covertly tapped to root out the mole, a task that requires a painstaking dig through the double-blind world of Cold War-era espionage and his own past.

Notes

Based on the book by John Le Carré.

Originally broadcast as a television mini-series in 1979.

Bonus features: interview with John le Carré (28 min.) ; production notes ; cast filmographies ; Le Carré biography and booklist.

Contents

  • Disc 1. Episodes 1-2
  • Disc 2. Episodes 3-4
  • Disc 3. Episodes 5-6.

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