The Little Drummer Girl- My Kind of Spy Film

Klaus Kinski as a wide-eyed, energetic spymaster. Sami Frey as the equally dedicated but dead-eyed terrorist bomber. In between both is New York actress Diane Keaton smuggled in by love to act as a spy for Israeli agents and find the elusive bomber. All of this is shaded through the cold, detached world of a John LeCarre novel that exemplifies my type of spy film. There's a ton of exposition..... acts of kidnapping and play-acting that aren't immediately explained,,, and lengthy scenes of bodies tailing one another, looking on from heights and parked cars. Even though Keaton feels a bit miscast at times, "The Little Drummer Girl" excels as a low-key thriller because the ensemble is so good and the machinations of spy craft continually surprise. Partly due to director George Roy Hill's pleasure of con and LeCarre's always subdued procession of duplicity, the film stands as one of the best spy films of the 80's.So why isn't this film more readily available? Despite the pedigree of…

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