Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy2011

Director: Tomas Alfredson
Stars: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 128 minutes

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 film set in the bleak days of the Cold War, where espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6. more »



Connie:
[In response to Smiley's questioning.] What does it matter, anyway? Old circus is gone, anyway. [Indicates some old photos.] Here we are: the nursery in our day. Jim Prideaux and Bill Haydon, of course - the inseparables. There's Control himself. All my boys, all my lovely boys. That was a good time, George.

Smiley:
It was the war, Connie.

Connie:
A real war. Englishman could be proud, then. [Long pause.] So I was right, then; about Polyokov. There is a mole... [Smiley gets up to leave.] If it's bad, don't come back; I want to remember you all as you were.

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    This is a 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'moment! Connie knows what loyalty and love of one's country means. She is eloquent in her expression of this.
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