The Kremlin Letter (1970)
When an unauthorized letter is sent to Moscow alleging the U.S. government's willingness to help Russia attack China, former naval officer Charles Rone and his team are sent to retrieve it. They go undercover, successfully reaching out to Erika Kosnov, the wife of a former agent, now married to the head of Russia's secret police. Their plans are interrupted, however, when their Moscow hideout is raided by a cunning politician.
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Such a frustrating disappointment
Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
Not terrible, this film has a number of twists, a complex plot and looks good even today.However, it is also burdened with a rather dull narrative of long in the tooth spies, doing things their way, in a free enterprise rootin tootin western in russia. Plus it has patrick oneill in some rather implausible love scenes with much younger women. It seems to exist in a world the director wishes to live in rather than a believable one.The ending is the best part. Devastatingly bleak
Don't know why, but this so-called espionage thriller is one of the worst films in this genre. Lot of A-list had beens, but the dramatically staging bland, loosely knitted screenplay almost killed all of them. The early Barbara Parkins didn't show any acting talent, she looked like a robot, was so terrible to watch. The opponent side of the Russian intelligence guys looked more like working for the British or American, they all acted and more likely living in the West, except the snowy winter scenes tried to give you how Russian's winter was so bitterly cold, all these guys didn't give any realistic feeling as Russians. The Americans in this so-called thriller, all looked like having a dinner party, waltzed through the whole film by just delivering the deadbeat, poorly pre-arranged theater-like dialog, making this film so impatiently to watch along. If the Cold War spies vs spies battles were like what we saw in this film, then they were just made-up jokes.
We are dealing with a few sacred monsters, starting with director John Huston (who casted himself in a small role in the film), then Orson Welles and George Sanders. Nigel Green, Richard Boone, Patrick O'Neal, are not sacred monsters, but they do their job well, are good actors. Barbara Parkins (the beauty from "Puppet on a Chain", "Bear Island" and "Valley of the Dolls") is a sexy innocence. Bibi Andersson(a favorite of Ingmar Bergman) makes a great role. Max von Sydow (another favorite of Ingmar Bergman) is brilliant too, as usual. And the great actress Lila Kedrova (Madame Hortense in "Zorba the Greek") has a role too small for her huge talent. A very special film about the sacrifices that spies have to make for their own homelands... or others homelands.
Just read some dunderhead's review with spoilers posted back in October 08. That person rated this movie one of the worst ever with an all star cast. Well, I am sure you are satisfied with Steven Seagal or Chuck Norris fare because you wouldn't know grit or realism if it bit you on the tool. The contents of the letter was a declaration of war by the US in conjunction with the USSR against China. Shows you how much you watched. I am sure George Sanders didn't commit suicide because he appeared in drag. Otherwise Dustin Hoffman, Eric Idle Robbie Coltrane, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon etc wouldn't have had substantial careers after they appeared in drag. My guess is that you think Tom Cruise's MI films are Citizen Kane! Or you don't know what Citizen Kane is.