February 22, 2011 (XXII:6) Martin Ritt, THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD (1965, 112 min) Directed by Martin Ritt Written by Paul Dehn, Guy Trosper, John le Carré (novel) Produced by Martin Ritt Cinematography by Oswald Morris Edited by Anthony Harvey Richard Burton...Alec Leamas Claire Bloom...Nan Perry Oskar Werner...Fiedler Sam Wanamaker...Peters George Voskovec... East German Defense Attorney Rupert Davies... George Smiley Cyril Cusack... Control Peter van Eyck...Hans-Dieter Mundt MARTIN RITT (March 2, 1914, New York City, New York – December 8, 1990, Santa Monica, California) directed 28 films and: 1989 Stanley & Iris, 1987 Nuts, 1985 Murphy's Romance, 1983 Cross Creek, 1981 Back Roads, 1979 Norma Rae, 1978 Casey's Shadow, 1976 The Front, 1974 Conrack, 1972 Pete 'n' Tillie, 1972 Sounder, 1970 The Great White Hope, 1970 The Molly Maguires, 1968 The Brotherhood, 1967 Hombre, 1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1964 The Outrage, 1963 which are 1982 The Dark Crystal, 1981 The Great Muppet Hud, 1962 Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, 1961 Caper, 1980 Just Tell Me What You Want, 1978 The Wiz, 1977 Paris Blues, 1960 5 Branded Women, 1959 The Sound and the Equus, 1976 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, 1975 The Man Who Fury, 1958 The Black Orchid, 1958 The Long, Hot Summer, Would Be King, 1974 The Man with the Golden Gun, 1974 The 1957 No Down Payment, 1957 Edge of the City,and The Split Odessa File, 1974 “Bram Stoker's Dracula,” 1973 The Second (1953). MacKintosh Man, 1972 Sleuth, 1972 Lady Caroline Lamb, 1971 Fiddler on the Roof, 1970 Scrooge, 1968 Oliver!, 1967 The JOHN LE CARRÉ (David Cornwell, October 19, 1931, Poole, Winter's Tale, 1967 The Taming of the Shrew, 1966 Stop the Dorset, England, UK) is a former member of the British Foreign World: I Want to Get Off, 1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Service who started writing novels in 1961. He has published 21 Cold, 1965 Life at the Top, 1965 The Hill, 1965 The Battle of the of them, and most have been done as films or television Villa Fiorita, 1964 Of Human Bondage, 1962 Lolita, 1961 The miniseries: 2011 “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,”, 2005 The Guns of Navarone , 1960 The Entertainer, 1959 Our Man in Constant Gardener, , 2001 The Tailor of Panama, 1991 “A Havana , 1959 Look Back in Anger, 1958 The Roots of Heaven, Murder of Quality,” 1990 The Russia House, 1987 “A Perfect 1957 A Farewell to Arms, 1957 Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, Spy” 1984 The Little Drummer Girl, 1982 “Smiley's People,” 1956 Moby Dick, 1956 The Man Who Never Was, 1953 Beat the 1979 “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, 1973 “Endstation”, 1969 Devil, 1952 Moulin Rouge, 1950 Cairo Road, and 1950 Golden The Looking Glass War, 1966 The Deadly Affair, and 1965 The Salamander. Spy Who Came in from the Cold. RICHARD BURTON...Alec Leamas (10 November 1925, OSWALD MORRIS (November 22, 1915, Hillingdon, Middlesex, Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK—5 August 1984, Céligny, Geneva, England, UK) won a Best Cinematography Oscar in 1972 for Switzerland) appeared in 69 films and TV programs, some of Fiddler on the Roof. He has photographed 57 films, some of which were "Ellis Island" 1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984, Ritt—THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD—2 "Wagner" 1983, Circle of Two 1980, The Wild Geese 1978, The Longest Day, 1961 The World in My Pocket, 1959 The Rest Is Medusa Touch 1978, Equus 1977, Exorcist II: The Heretic 1977, Silence, 1959 Rommel ruft Kairo, 1956 Attack, 1955 Mr. The Klansman 1974, Massacre in Rome / Rappresaglia 1973, Arkadin, 1953 The Wages of Fear, 1950 Furioso,1943 Hitler's Bluebeard 1972, The Assassination of Trotsky 1972, Under Milk Madman, 1943 Action in the North Atlantic, 1943 Five Graves to Wood 1972, Anne of the Thousand Days 1969, Candy 1968, Cairo, Lt. Schwegler, and 1943 Hitler's Children. Where Eagles Dare 1968, Boom! 1968, The Comedians 1967, Doctor Faustus 1967, The Taming of the Shrew 1967, Who's “Martin Ritt”, from World Film Directors, Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966, The Spy Who Came in from the Vol. II. Ed. John Wakeman. The H.W. Cold 1965, The Sandpiper 1965, What's New Pussycat 1965, Wilson Co., NY, 1988. Hamlet 1964, The Night of the Iguana 1964, Becket 1964, Zulu American film, theatre, and television 1964, The V.I.P.s 1963, Cleopatra 1963, The Longest Day 1962, director, actor and producer, born in New Ice Palace 1960, Look Back in Anger 1959, "The James Mason York City, the son of Morris and Rose Ritt. Show" 1956, “Performer” 1956, Alexander the Great 1956, The His father was a Russian Jew, educated in Rains of Ranchipur 1955, Prince of Players 1955, The Robe Switzerland, who was serving as a second 1953, The Desert Rats 1953, My Cousin Rachel 1952, mate with the Hamburg-American line when Waterfront Women 1950, and Women of Dolwyn 1949. he emigrated to America. His mother was a theatrical agent and an uncle was a gypsy dancer “good enough CLAIRE BLOOM...Nan Perry (February 15, 1931, London, to play the palace in New York.” Martin Ritt grew up in New England, UK) has appeared in 113 films and TV programs and York on the Lower East Side and distinguished himself at Dewitt series, most recently as Queen Mary in The King's Speech, 2010. Clinton High School more as an all-round athlete than in the Some of the others were , 2009-2010 “Doctor Who, 2006 “The classroom. According to Jean Harmetz he was “a jock—a barrel- Chatterley Affair,” 2004 Daniel and the Superdogs, 2004 “Law chested, tough battering ram with bruised knuckles whose goal, & Order: Criminal Intent,” 1995 Mighty Aphrodite, 1995 Mad if he had one, was to coach football when he was too old to play Dogs and Englishmen, 1993-1995 “As the World Turns,” 1989 it.” After a stint at Rhodes Preparatory School in New York, he Crimes and Misdemeanors, 1985 Déjà Vu, 1982 “Cymbeline,” went on with an athletic scholarship to Elon College in 1981 “Brideshead Revisited,” Julia (1981), 1979 “Oresteia,” Burlington, North Carolina, where he was a boxer and a good 1977 Islands in the Stream, 1969 The Illustrated Man, 1968 halfback. Charly, 1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1961 “Anna No longer content with success as an athlete, Ritt left Karenina”, Through a Dark Glass (1961), 1959 Look Back in Elon ambitious for a career in law and enrolled at St. John’s Anger, 1958 The Brothers Karamazov, Beauty and the Beast University, then in Brooklyn. He made his stage debut one (1958), Romeo and Juliet (1957), 1952 Limelight, and 1948 The summer vacation as Crown in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and at Blind Goddess. about this time met Elia Kazan, a decisive influence. Ritt joined Kazan as a member of Lee Strasberg’s Group Theatre and that OSKAR WERNER...Fiedler (November 13, 1922, Vienna, Austria socialist and Stanislavskyan institution converted him from a law – October 23, 1984, Marburg an der Lahn, Germany) appeared in student into an actor “overdosed on the class struggle.” His first 28 films and TVepisodes, the last of which was 1976 Voyage of assignment for the Group was to coach Luther Adler for his role the Damned. Some of the others were 1975 “Columbo,” 1968 as a boxer in Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy, in which Ritt had a The Shoes of the Fisherman, 1966 Fahrenheit 451, 1965 The Spy walk-on part himself….After serving for a time as understudy to Who Came in from the Cold, 1965 Ship of Fools, 1955 The Life John Garfield, he appeared in a number of Group productions and Loves of Mozart, 1955 The Last Ten Days, 1949 Eroica, including Planet of the Sun (1938), The Gentle People (1939), 1939 Hotel Sacher, and 1938 Geld fällt vom Himmel. and Two on an Island (1939). Ritt served in World War II in the US Army Air Force CYRIL CUSACK...Control (November 26, 1910, Durban, Natal, but continued to act. He appeared in The Eve of St. Mark (1942) South Africa – October 7, 1993, London, England, UK) appeared and in Moss Hart’s tribute to the Air Force, Winged Victory in 126 titles, some of which were 1993 “The Young Indiana (1943), repeating his performance in George Cukor’s film Jones Chronicles,” 1989 My Left Foot, The Tenth Man (1988), version of the latter. This was Ritt’s first involvement in the 1988 Little Dorrit, The Inheritance (1986), 1983 The World of cinema and at about the same time he made his debut as a theatre Don Camillo, 1981 True Confessions, Passage to India (1965), , director with an Air Force production of the 1934 warhorse 1973 The Day of the Jackal, 1971 Harold and Maude, 1971 Yellow Jack, with an all-soldier cast including such nascent stars Sacco & Vanzetti, 1971 King Lear, 1966 Fahrenheit 451, 1965 as John Forsythe. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1959 Shake Hands with After the war Ritt returned to the theatre as a director, the Devil, 1956 The Man Who Never Was, 1951 Soldiers Three, his credits including Mr. Peebles and Mr. Hooker (1940), a 1947 Odd Man Out, and 1918 Knocknagow. successful revival on Broadway of Yellow Jack (1947), and Dorothy Heywood’s drama about a slave rebellion, Set My PETER VAN EYCK...Hans-Dieter Mundt (July 16, 1911, People Free (1948). In 1947, meanwhile, Ritt had branched out Steinwehr, Pomerania, Germany [now Kamienny Jaz, Poland] – into television, then in its “golden age” and an exhilarating July 15, 1969, Zurich, Switzerland) appeared in 91 films, some medium for a talented and versatile young man.