Set at the end of of the sixties The Kremlin Letter tells the story of the highly skilled Naval officer Charles Rone (Patrick O’Neal), who is recruited by the CIA to track down a rather embarrassing letter that’s possibly fallen into the wrong hands.
The letter is, unsurprisingly perhaps, something of a macguffin and directer John Huston, who was also instrumental in penning the adaptation from the Noel Behn novel on which it is based, uses this somewhat fruitless quest as a way of spinning an elaborate and sordid spy tale that can absorb an audience, possibly confuse them and even occasionally disgust them.
It seems almost trite to point out but The Kremlin Letter is the antithesis of the bulk of the Bond series up to the point of the film’s release, with the exception perhaps of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service released shortly before it,...
The letter is, unsurprisingly perhaps, something of a macguffin and directer John Huston, who was also instrumental in penning the adaptation from the Noel Behn novel on which it is based, uses this somewhat fruitless quest as a way of spinning an elaborate and sordid spy tale that can absorb an audience, possibly confuse them and even occasionally disgust them.
It seems almost trite to point out but The Kremlin Letter is the antithesis of the bulk of the Bond series up to the point of the film’s release, with the exception perhaps of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service released shortly before it,...
- 7/14/2011
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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