The Looking Glass War

The Looking Glass War

🎞️ Movie 108 min GB
โ˜… 5.8 /10 1970

"Why do we listen to them? Why do we fight their wars for them?"

During the Cold War, the British Intelligence receives a blurred photograph from East Germany taken from Hamburg and Director LeClerc believes they are missiles. Their agent, Taylor King, who receives a film which might clarify the detail from a pilot in Finland, is found dead on the road, and the police believe he was accidentally killed in a hit-and-run. LeClerc meets the Polish defector Fred Leiser, who jumped overboard from a ship expecting to have asylum and stay with his British girlfriend who is pregnant, and decides to recruit him to cross the border and spy on the Eat German facility to check on the missiles. In return, he would have salary, insurance and political asylum. Leiser is trained by the agent and family man John Avery,and soon he finds his girlfriend has had ended the pregnancy. When Leiser crosses the border, he meets up with Anna, a local, and they stay together in the beginning of a dangerous journey where he is just a pawn in a war game.

Cast

Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones
Leiser
Pia Degermark
Pia Degermark
The Girl
Ralph Richardson
Ralph Richardson
Leclerc
Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers
Haldane
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins
Avery
Susan George
Susan George
The Girl In London
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Ray McAnally
Under Secretary Of State
Robert Urquhart
Robert Urquhart
Johnson
Anna Massey
Anna Massey
Avery's Wife
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Vivian Pickles
Mrs. King
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Angela Morley
Composer
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Austin Dempster
Cinematographer