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Director:
Anthony Mann
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Writer:
Derek Marlowe (novel)
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Release Date:
2 kwiecieñ 1968 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
A Double Agent in Double Danger!
Plot:
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Laurence Harvey ... Eberlin
Tom Courtenay ... Gatiss

Mia Farrow ... Caroline
Harry Andrews ... Fraser
Peter Cook ... Prentiss
Lionel Stander ... Sobakevich
Per Oscarsson ... Pavel
Barbara Murray ... Miss Vogler
John Bird ... Henderson
Norman Bird ... Copperfield
Geoffrey Bayldon ... Lake
Calvin Lockhart ... Brogue
James Cossins ... Heston-Stevas
Michael Trubshawe ... Flowers
Lockwood West ... Quince
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:107 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
West Germany:12 (re-rated) | West Germany:16 | UK:12 (video rating) (2007) | UK:A | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Director Anthony Mann died during production and was replaced by Laurence Harvey. more
Quotes:
Caroline: I'm an existentialist.
Eberlin: Uh - you're a what?
Caroline: I'm an ext - isn't that the right word?
Eberlin: I would say "exhibitionist" is more to the point.
Caroline: What's an existentialist, then?
Eberlin: Well, it's slightly more complex than romping around naked.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Greetings (1968) more

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6 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
WHAT is this movie about???, 28 pa¼dziernik 2001
Author: pljewkes from Boston, MA

It's difficult to watch the cold war thriller A DANDY IN ASPIC and not scratch your head wondering what is going on. Laurence Harvey is a double agent chosen by British intelligence to track down a double agent who is working for the Russians. The double agent turns out to be himself...and we know that early on so you spend the rest of the movie wondering who's who and what side are they on. Nevertheless, the game of cat-and-mouse played between Harvey and nasty British spy Tom Courtney (a great actor) is fairly involving.

A DANDY IN ASPIC is not a bad movie, it just that the plot is thicker than Laurence Harvey's out of control pompadour. Mia Farrow is a swinging London photographer who gets involved with Harvey and Lionel Stander plays a witty Russian mole.

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