John le Carré - Top 16 Highest Rated Movies 

I have seen 3 John le Carre movies. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and The Russia House are favourites. I have also seen The Deadly Affair. Favourite posters and stills are from The Spy Who came in From the Cold, both versions of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Night Manager, The Deadly affair, The Tailor of Panama, The Russia House, and The Looking Glass War.

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Every time John le Carré published a new thriller most of his contemporary authors deemed it yet another masterpiece but John le Carré doesn’t have a record of being enamoured by his fellow authors let alone journalists. Le Carré, Ian Fleming and Len Deighton did meet one another from time to time but apparently their meetings ended in near nuclear arguments about who was best equipped to write realistic espionage novels. It's a shame all three focused on fiction but of course not one of them had first-hand experience of being a secret agent notwithstanding Fleming’s experiences in the Admiralty and le Carré’s in Five and Six until Kim Philby outed all le Carré’s agents operating in Europe. Of course, Philby and Oleg Gordievsky both knew Col Alan Pemberton CVO MBE aka Mac, Bill Fairclough’s true life MI6 handler in The Burlington Files which is a must read for all espionage cognoscenti. Bill Fairclough. MI6 codename JJ, aka Edward Burlington, was the protagonist in The Burlington Files series of fact based spy novels and did have real life experience of being a secret agent albeit not focused so much on the USSR in the Cold War. Critics have likened Fairclough to a "posh or sophisticated Harry Palmer" which probably didn’t appeal to le Carré. We do know that Fairclough once contacted le Carré in 2014 to do a collaboration. Le Carré responded along the lines of "Why should I? I've got by so far without collaboration so why bother now?" A realistic response from a famous expert in fiction who lost his MI6 job after being deceived by Philby!

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Not too aware of John le Carre. So I was surprised I had seen half of the 16 movies. Not really any favorites....but I thought Gary Oldman's version of Tailor, Soldier, Spy was pretty good. FYI...The Tailor of Panama features one of the first movies for Harry Potter...as a young Daniel Radcliffe makes an appeareance in that one. Good video. Voted up and shared at UltimateMovieRankings.com.