Tinker,Taillor, Soldier, Spy (1979) - Alec Guinness - Toby's Questioning

In 1979, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was adapted to television as a seven-part series for the BBC, featuring Alec Guinness as George Smiley, of the SIS.
George Smiley — Alec Guinness
Toby Esterhase — Bernard Hepton

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Film & Animation

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• Tinker
• Tailor
• Soldier
• Spy
• Alec
• Guinness
• George
• Smiley

[TheDukeSpirit71]

Just saw the movie this afternoon and Im still trying to figure a couple things out...can someone please explain to me who or what is "Karla"? And which one was Alleline?

[VindobonaNorikum2]

@TheDukeSpirit71, Karla is a fictional character in several novels by John le Carré. A Soviet Intelligence officer, he most often appears as a distant antagonist of George Smiley. His real name is never revealed; instead he takes his codename, a woman's, from that of the first network he recruited.

[VindobonaNorikum2]

@TheDukeSpirit71, Sir Percy Alleline is a fictional character in British novelist John le Carré's work. He is the Chief of the "Circus", Le Carré's fictionalised version of MI6/SIS, in the novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974).

[arbinka999]

@TheDukeSpirit71 In the 1979 Tinker Tailor and in Smiley'sPeople he is played by Patrick Stewart, bald as the Captain of the Enterprise.

[drumgol]

I've been enjoying the BBC Radio Dramatisations of TTSS and the rest of the trilogy (as well as the other Smiley books, Call for the Dead, Murder of Quality, Secret Pilgrim, etc) and I must say that I would rather have Smiley on a case than Bond any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

[canfor5]

Just reread the novel the other day..and forgot how good this BBC version was. The cat is out of the bag in this wonderful scene! Thanks!

[Straussian]

This is surely one of the greatest scenes ever created for television. Spectacular. "The art of being Gerald is being one of a crowd." "My hat, Toby. A dangerous job like that deserves a whole chest full of medals." "Gerald, of course, is a Russian mole, and he's pulled the Circus inside out." "'But Witchcraft material isn't chickenfeed. It's the best.' 'It was good at first.'"

[1kozmicfrog]

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