Tinker tailor soldier spy [videorecording] / a BBC Television production in association with Paramount ; producer, Jonathan Powell ; directed by John Irvin ; dramatized by Arthur Hopcraft.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: AMP-8691 | Acorn MediaLanguage: English Original language: English, Undetermined Subtitle language: English Publication details: Silver Spring, MD : Acorn Media, c2011.Description: 3 videodiscs (324 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet ([4] p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.)Content type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 1598286919
- 9781598286915
- Photography, Tony Pierce-Roberts; editor, Chris Wimble; music, Geoffrey Burton.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult DVD
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Main Library | DVD | DRAMA Tinker t | Available | 33111008269009 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Living a premature and somewhat humbling retirement, elderly British spy George Smiley (Alec Guinness) is abruptly resurrected by his former boss Lacon (Anthony Bate) with an ultra-secret mission: find the double agent in the ranks of the British Secret Service. Is it the pompous head of service, Percy Alleline (Michael Aldridge)? The blowsy Bland (Terence Rigby)? The shifty Toby Esterhase (Bernard Hepdon)? Or perhaps the urbane Bill Haydon (Ian Richardson)? Pushed into retirement by a scandal caused by the now-deceased head of service, Control (Alexander Knox), and because he suspected that there was a spy, Smiley journeys through the labyrinthine world of the British spy service layer by layer as he hunts the mole controlled by the mysterious Russian spymaster Karla (Patrick Stewart). Taken from a best-selling novel by internationally famed novelist John Le Carré, this nearly five-hour miniseries was first broadcast by the BBC. The story is loosely based on the infamous Kim Philby spy scandal of the early '60s. ~ Nick Sambides, Jr., Rovi
Based on Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy / by John Le CarreÌ.
Title from container.
Videodisc release of the television mini-series originally broadcast in 1979.
Disc 1. Episodes 1-2 -- disc 2. Episodes 3-4 -- disc 3. Episodes 5-6.
Photography, Tony Pierce-Roberts; editor, Chris Wimble; music, Geoffrey Burton.
Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston, Patrick Stewart, Sir Alec Guinness, Bernard Hepton.
"No doubt remains; a mole has infiltrated the highest level of the Circus, code name for British Secret Intelligence Service. Sidelined agent George Smiley is covertly tapped to root out the mole, a task that requires a painstaking dig through the labyrinths of Cold War-era espionage and his own past."--Container.
Rating: Not rated.
DVD, NTSC, Region 1; Dolby Digital.
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
In English; some Eastern European dialogue with English subtitles.