Classic Film Club: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (12A)

This adaptation of the John le Carré novel is the definitive anti-Bond spy movie. Starring Richard Burton and showing on would have been Burton's 100th birthday.

At the height of the Cold War, British spy Alec Leamas (Burton) is nearly ready to retire, But first he has to take on one last dangerous assignment. Going deep undercover, he poses as a drunken, disgraced former MI5 agent in East Germany in order to gain information about colleagues who have been captured. When he is thrown in jail and interrogated, he finds himself caught in a sinister labyrinth of plots and counterplots unlike anything in his long career.