THE KREMLIN LETTER (1970) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: John Huston
Patrick O'Neal, Richard Boone, Bibi Andersson,
Nigel Green, Barbara Parkins, Max von Sydow,
George Sanders, Orson Welles, Dean Jagger,
Lila Kedrova, Raf Vallone, John Huston
An important document has gone missing, and the Americans and the Russians both want it back. Orson Welles and Max von Sydow are on the Russian side, but they don't like each other very much. Playing for the Americans are a bunch of old-school agents, plus Barbara Parkins and Patrick O'Neal. An offbeat spy caper with a touch of perversion, a jaded sense of humor and some voiceover translation in the place of subtitles that's odd and doesn't quite work. It's not Graham Greene or John Le Carré, but with a cast like that, it's not hard to watch. If Richard Boone's not high up on your list of avuncular, cold-blooded bad guys, you probably haven't seen him in this.
Max von Sydow
(1929-2020)
