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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)

Fri, Feb 03, 2012./noise/movies | Link

The predecessor to Smiley's People. (Apparently Le Carre wrote a less filmable middle child, The Honorable Schoolboy.) It is a quite similar made-for-TV BBC production, again featuring Alec Guinness in the lead with able support from other British actors. If you see it, go in cold.