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Smiley's People
Smiley's People
Smiley's People
1982
Drama, Mystery
TV Mini-Series
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. (imdb)

Directed by:

Simon Langton
Simon-Langton
13 total credits
Simon Langton has 13 credits at Criticker, including: Pride and Prejudice, Smiley's People, The Whistle Blower, Supernatural and Laguna Heat

Writers:

John Hopkins
John-Hopkins
11 total credits
John Hopkins has 11 credits at Criticker, including: The Offence, Smiley's People, Hilda and the Mountain King, The Pool and Faster
,
John Le Carré
John-Le-Carr
18 total credits
John Le Carré has 18 credits at Criticker, including: The Constant Gardener, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, A Most Wanted Man, The Tailor of Panama and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Starring:

Eileen Atkins
Eileen-Atkins
38 total credits
Eileen Atkins has 38 credits at Criticker, including: The Avengers, Magic in the Moonlight, What a Girl Wants, Wild Target and Vanity Fair
,
Michael Gough
Michael-Gough
88 total credits
Michael Gough has 88 credits at Criticker, including: Batman, Batman Returns, Sleepy Hollow, Batman & Robin and Corpse Bride
,
Michael Byrne
Michael-Byrne
33 total credits
Michael Byrne has 33 credits at Criticker, including: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Sum of All Fears, Battlefield Earth, The Saint and Beyond the Sea
,
Alan Rickman
Alan-Rickman
58 total credits
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born 21 February 1946) is an English actor and theatre director. He is a renowned stage actor in modern and classical productions and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Rickman is known for his film performances as Hans Gruber in Die Hard, Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series, Eamon de Valera in Michael Collins, and Metatron in Dogma...(Wikipedia)
,
Patrick Stewart
Patrick-Stewart
99 total credits
Sir Patrick Hewes Stewart, OBE is an English film, television and stage actor as well as a university Chancellor. He has had a distinguished career in theatre and television for around half a century. He is most widely known for his television and film roles, as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series, and as the voice of Avery Bullock in American Dad. (Wikipedia)
,
Bill Paterson
Bill-Paterson
44 total credits
Bill Paterson has 44 credits at Criticker, including: Fleabag, The Witches, The Killing Fields, Miss Potter and Outlander
,
Alec Guinness
Alec-Guinness
59 total credits
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (2 April 1914 - 5 August 2000) was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. His most prominent role in his later career was as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy...(Wikipedia)
,
Ingrid Pitt
Ingrid-Pitt
12 total credits
Ingrid Pitt has 12 credits at Criticker, including: The Wicker Man, Where Eagles Dare, The Vampire Lovers, The House That Dripped Blood and Countess Dracula
,
Curd Jürgens
Curd-Jrgens
65 total credits
Curd Jürgens has 65 credits at Criticker, including: The Spy Who Loved Me, And God Created Woman, Battle of Britain, The Enemy Below and Bitter Victory
,
Siân Phillips
Sin-Phillips
27 total credits
Siân Phillips has 27 credits at Criticker, including: Clash of the Titans, Becket, Valmont, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
,
Beryl Reid
Beryl-Reid
16 total credits
Beryl Reid has 16 credits at Criticker, including: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Psychomania, Smiley's People, The Killing of Sister George and The Belles of St. Trinian's
,
Vladek Sheybal
Vladek-Sheybal
25 total credits
Vladek Sheybal has 25 credits at Criticker, including: From Russia with Love, Kanal, Women in Love, Shogun and The Wind and the Lion

Genres:

Drama, Mystery

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Smiley's People

1982
Drama, Mystery
TV Mini-Series
Avg Percentile 75.77% from 77 total ratings

Ratings & Reviews

(77)
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Rated 24 Oct 2015
89
96th
Alec Guiness goes on a European tour. This is the rather more down-to-Earth and, in my esteem, superior follow-up to Tinker, Tailor. Great actors, effective location shooting, and a strong script with some brutally incisive lines of dialogue. Some of the plot elements were still a little too outlandish for my liking, but that's only a small niggle.
Rated 07 Oct 2023
95
80th
It starts a little slow, and some of the acting gets a little too hysterical, but Guinness is a master class and Smiley's a bastard. The anti-climax of this Cold War tale (Smiley trilogy) that shows the true futility and human cost behind it all. Wish they'd been able to do The Honorable Schoolboy, probably the best book of the three, even better than Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

Cast & Info

Directed by:

Simon Langton
Simon-Langton
13 total credits
Simon Langton has 13 credits at Criticker, including: Pride and Prejudice, Smiley's People, The Whistle Blower, Supernatural and Laguna Heat

Writers:

John Hopkins
John-Hopkins
11 total credits
John Hopkins has 11 credits at Criticker, including: The Offence, Smiley's People, Hilda and the Mountain King, The Pool and Faster
,
John Le Carré
John-Le-Carr
18 total credits
John Le Carré has 18 credits at Criticker, including: The Constant Gardener, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, A Most Wanted Man, The Tailor of Panama and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Starring:

Eileen Atkins
Eileen-Atkins
38 total credits
Eileen Atkins has 38 credits at Criticker, including: The Avengers, Magic in the Moonlight, What a Girl Wants, Wild Target and Vanity Fair
,
Michael Gough
Michael-Gough
88 total credits
Michael Gough has 88 credits at Criticker, including: Batman, Batman Returns, Sleepy Hollow, Batman & Robin and Corpse Bride
,
Michael Byrne
Michael-Byrne
33 total credits
Michael Byrne has 33 credits at Criticker, including: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Sum of All Fears, Battlefield Earth, The Saint and Beyond the Sea
,
Alan Rickman
Alan-Rickman
58 total credits
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born 21 February 1946) is an English actor and theatre director. He is a renowned stage actor in modern and classical productions and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Rickman is known for his film performances as Hans Gruber in Die Hard, Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series, Eamon de Valera in Michael Collins, and Metatron in Dogma...(Wikipedia)
,
Patrick Stewart
Patrick-Stewart
99 total credits
Sir Patrick Hewes Stewart, OBE is an English film, television and stage actor as well as a university Chancellor. He has had a distinguished career in theatre and television for around half a century. He is most widely known for his television and film roles, as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series, and as the voice of Avery Bullock in American Dad. (Wikipedia)
,
Bill Paterson
Bill-Paterson
44 total credits
Bill Paterson has 44 credits at Criticker, including: Fleabag, The Witches, The Killing Fields, Miss Potter and Outlander
,
Alec Guinness
Alec-Guinness
59 total credits
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (2 April 1914 - 5 August 2000) was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. His most prominent role in his later career was as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy...(Wikipedia)
,
Ingrid Pitt
Ingrid-Pitt
12 total credits
Ingrid Pitt has 12 credits at Criticker, including: The Wicker Man, Where Eagles Dare, The Vampire Lovers, The House That Dripped Blood and Countess Dracula
,
Curd Jürgens
Curd-Jrgens
65 total credits
Curd Jürgens has 65 credits at Criticker, including: The Spy Who Loved Me, And God Created Woman, Battle of Britain, The Enemy Below and Bitter Victory
,
Siân Phillips
Sin-Phillips
27 total credits
Siân Phillips has 27 credits at Criticker, including: Clash of the Titans, Becket, Valmont, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
,
Beryl Reid
Beryl-Reid
16 total credits
Beryl Reid has 16 credits at Criticker, including: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Psychomania, Smiley's People, The Killing of Sister George and The Belles of St. Trinian's
,
Vladek Sheybal
Vladek-Sheybal
25 total credits
Vladek Sheybal has 25 credits at Criticker, including: From Russia with Love, Kanal, Women in Love, Shogun and The Wind and the Lion

Genres:

Drama, Mystery

Country:

UK

Language:

English
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