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Spies, Espionage, WAR (UK/US)
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Counter Espionage - 1942
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing
Quality: 9/10, US
Stars: Warren William, Eric Blore, Hillary Brooke
Count Five and Die - 1957
Forces combine to convince the Germans that the invasion will take place in The Netherlands and not France
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, AnneMarie Duringer, Nigel Patrick, David Kossoff
Danger Route - 1967
Cold War spies, double agents and lots of intrgue!
Quality: 710
Stars: Richard Johnson, Carol Lynley, Barbara Bouchet, Sylvia Syms, Diana Dors
The Endless Game - 1989
A British Agent comes back from retirement, after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events from his own past to determine who killed them, and why
Quality: 8.5/10, UK/Italy (the abridged 2 hour tv film version)
Stars: Albert Finney, George Segal, Monica Guerritore, Ian Holm, Kristin Scott Thomas
Game, Set & Match - 1988 (3 discs)
1. Game Set & Match - Berlin 1988, parts 1-5
2. Game Set & Match - Mexico 1988, parts 1-5
3. Game Set & Match - London, parts 1-3
Quality: 8/10, very good / x13 parts on x3 discs
Bernard Samson is an ageing British spy, who was once at the top of his game. He led his own spy team in East Germany from Berlin. Everything changed when he lost a team member and he's been blaming himself for it ever since. He now works behind the desk with a team of young highly educated spies, who've never seen a day of action. When evidence of a Russian mole within their ranks appear, he's asked once again to return to Berlin and use his experience and old contacts to help catch the traitor
Stars: Ian Holm, Michael Culver, Michael Degen, Anthony Bate, Amanda Donohoe, Gail Harrison, Frederick Treves
The Heat Of The Day - 1989
WWII spy drama about an intelligence agent using a girl, who's boyfriend is a spy, for his own devices
Quality: 7.5/10, UK tv
Stars: Michael Gambon, Patricia Hodge, Michael York, Imelda Staunton
Hotel Reserve - 1944
A refugee from what was formerly Austria, is now staying at a resort hotel on the French Riviera when he's picked up as a spy
Quality: 9/10
Stars: James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Herbert Lom, Raymond Lovell, Clare Hamilton
The Middle Course - 1961
A small town in France must adopt ingenious methods to cope with occupying German forces. A Canadian pilot crashes nearby and is helps the villagers fight their own private war
Quality: 7/10
Stars: Vincent Ball, Lisa Daniely, Peter Illing, Marne Maitland
Never Come Back - 1990
Shortly before World War II, a disillusioned journalist finds that the mystery woman he has been pursuing is a Nazi spy
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Nathaniel Parker, James Fox, Jonathan Coy
Night Train To Munich - 1940
An inventor and his daughter flee Nazi Germany to England with the Germans in hot pursuit
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne
Our Man In Havana - 1959
Vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his devious plans are going to get him into trouble.
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, Burl Ives
Permission To Kill - 1975
A Cold War thriller, reuniting Dirk Bogarde with Ava Gardner, in which British agents are tasked to stop a communist returning home from the West
Quality: 8/10, UK/Austria/US
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Timothy Dalton
Dir: Cyril Frankel
Sebastian - 1968
A very entertaining 60's time capsule spy-encrypting romantic drama
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Susannah York, Lili Palmer, John Gielgud, Janet Munro, Ronald Fraser
Secret Venture - 1955
An American visiting Britain comes into the possession of valuable documents that many other countries appear to be after
Quality: 6/10, poor print
Stars: Kent Taylor, Jane Hylton, Kathleen Byron, Michael Balfour, Michael Ripper
Spy Trap - 1972/1975 (3 discs)
Spy Trap was a BBC drama that ran from 1972 to 1975, set around a British counter-espionage organisation
Casts include: Paul Daneman, Julian Glover, Tom Adams, Prentis Hancock, Michael Gwynn, Pamela Brown, Gabrielle Blunt
Directors: Valerie Hanson, Julia Smith, Ken Hannam
Quality: 8/10, variable but very good
Episodes as listed below
Disc 1 / Series 3
To Kill A Unicorn; Truth Won't Out; April Sixty-Seven;
The Melioidosis Report; The Merrin Memoirs
Disc 2 / Series 3
Look For The Ugly; The Cornet and the Beast; A Nice Place To Live;
With Friends Like You; Distant Relations
Disc 3 / Part of Series 1
Check Point episodes 1-4
The Spy With A Cold Nose - 1966
A dog with a covert spying device is sent as a gift to the Russians. When the dog is sent to the Vets, a British spy must get to the dog first to retrieve the implant
Quality: 7/10
Stars: Laurence Harvey, Lionel Jeffries, Daliah Lavi, Eric Sykes, Eric Portman