Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy / a BBC Television production in association with Paramount ; Paramount Television ; produced by Jonathan Powell ; directed by John Irvin ; dramatized by Arthur Hopcraft.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

3 videodiscs (approximately 348 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

"No doubt remains, a mole has infiltrated the Circus, code name for the British Secret Intelligence Service. It can only be one of four men operating at the very highest level. Sidelined agent George Smiley is covertly tapped to root out the mole, a task that requires a painstaking dig through the double-blind world of Cold War espionage and his own past"--Container.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Le Carré, John, 1931-2020. -- Television adaptations.

Smiley, George (Fictitious character) -- Drama.

Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- Drama.

Espionage -- Drama.

Cold War -- Drama.

Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Spy television programs.

Other Author:

Powell, Jonathan, 1947-

Irvin, John.

Hopcraft, Arthur.

Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000.

Richardson, Ian, 1934-2007.

Aldridge, Michael.

Bannen, Ian, 1928-1999.

Hepton, Bernard.

Rigby, Terence.

Jayston, Michael, 1935-2024

Bennett, Hywel, 1944-2017.

Bate, Anthony.

Le Carré, John, 1931-2020. Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy.

British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.

Paramount Pictures Corporation.

Paramount Television.

Acorn Media (Firm)

Other Title:

Title on container: John le Carré's Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy

Notes:

Based on the novel by John Le Carré.

Originally produced for television in 1979.

Photography, Tony Pierce-Roberts ; film editor, Chris Wimble ; script editor, Betty Willingdale ; music, Geoffrey Burgon.

Alec Guinness (George Smiley), Ian Richardson, Michael Aldridge, Ian Bannen, Bernard Hepton, Terence Rigby, Michael Jayston, Hywel Bennett, and Anthony Bate.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; Dolby digital ; 1.33:1 aspect ratio.

English audio; English closed-captions for the hearing impaired.

Contents:

disc 1. Episodes 1-2 -- disc. 2. Episodes 3-4 -- disc. 3. Episodes 5-6.

ISBN:

1569385262

9781569385265

9781598286915

1598286919

9781598286915

1598286919

Publisher Number:

AMP-5262

Other Number:

50729065

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

712610

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD TV Tinker t