Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
by John le Carréliterary work· published 1974
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George Smiley is assigned to uncover the identity of the double agent operating in the highest levels of British Intelligence.
Adaptations (2)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has been adapted 2 times, across miniseries and film, from 1979 to 2011.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy1979 · miniseries · 290 min · IMDb ↗IMDb8.4Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a seven-part BBC2 spy drama written by Arthur Hopcraft, adapted from John le Carré's eponymous 1974 novel. The serial, which stars Alec Guinness, Alexander Knox, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston, Bernard Hepton, Anthony Bate, Ian Bannen, George Sewell and Michael Aldridge, was broadcast from 10 September to 22 October 1979. George Smiley, the ageing master spy of the Cold War and once heir-apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy2011 · film · 127 min · dir. Tomas Alfredson · IMDb ↗George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
