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Release year: 1970

Storyline

During the Cold War a Naval Intelligence officer endowed with a powerful photographic memory is transferred to the CIA to participate in a covert operation in Moscow.

Top credits

Directors

John Huston

Writers

Cast

Bibi Andersson — Erika Kosnov
Richard Boone — Ward
Nigel Green — The Whore
Dean Jagger — Highwayman

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Did you know

• Uses an artsy technique, considered innovative at the time, first used in "Judgment at Nuremberg" in 1961, where scenes begin in Russian and gradually segue to English, avoiding subtitles or dubbing into English.

• John Huston said of this film in his auto-biography 'An Open Book': "I thought 'The Kremlin Letter' had all the makings of a success... The book by Noel Behn had been a best-seller. It had, moreover, all those qualities that were just coming into fashion in 1970 - violence, lurid sex, drugs. The cast was exceptionally strong... and the performances couldn't have been bettered. It was extremely well photographed [by Edward Scaife] - there was a virtuosity, a shine to it. Gladys Hill and I wrote the script, which I considered quite good, though in retrospect it was perhaps overcomplicated."

• Source novelist Noel Behn based his novel of 'the Kremlin letter' on his experiences in working for the US Army's Counterintelligence Corps.