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#Spyparty controls series#

Morgan dropped out as the writer for personal reasons but still served as an executive producer. The project was initiated by Peter Morgan when he wrote a draft of the screenplay, which he offered to Working Title Films to produce. Toby Jones as Percy Alleline ('Tinker').David Dencik as Toby Esterhase ('Poorman').Gary Oldman as George Smiley ('Beggarman').Ann returns home, and Smiley returns to the Circus as its Chief. After Smiley's departure Prideaux shoots and kills Haydon from a distance. Haydon later confirms that Prideaux, his close friend, suspected him and warned him, not expecting to be betrayed himself, and that he seduced Ann on Karla's orders to cloud Smiley's judgement. Smiley waits at the safe house for the mole to alert Polyakov that Tarr is about to blow their cover, and arrests Haydon at gunpoint. Tarr visits the Paris station and informs London that he has vital information. Smiley threatens Esterhase with deportation to obtain the Witchcraft safe house address. In reality Polyakov is receiving valuable information from the mole, and his intelligence is trivial 'glitter', to lure the CIA into sharing intelligence with Britain, which the mole can then also leak. Smiley informs Lacon and the Minister that Alleline, Haydon, Bland and Esterhase have been exchanging low-grade British intelligence with Polyakov, the Witchcraft source. He was tortured by the KGB, and saw Irina shot in front of him.

#Spyparty controls code#

Prideaux, who is in fact alive and now a schoolmaster, tells Smiley that his Budapest mission was to relay the identity of the mole to Control via code names. Guillam wonders how Haydon could have learned of the emergency, but Smiley tells him he was having an affair with Ann. Westerby left a message with Ann Smiley - Haydon then arrived and took charge. Former duty officer Jerry Westerby tells Smiley of how Prideaux's shooting sent Control into shock. Smiley tells Guillam that in 1955 he had urged Moscow's spymaster Karla to defect, begging him to 'think of his wife' and realised too late that he had revealed his own weak spot: his love for his wife. Smiley finds that the logbook pages for the relevant night have been removed, supporting Tarr's story. Guillam is unexpectedly brought before Circus leadership and told that Tarr is a traitor. Smiley sends Guillam to steal the logbook for the night Tarr contacted London. Fearing for his life, Tarr went into hiding. After he notified London, the local station chief was murdered and Irina abducted. Tarr tells Smiley that in Istanbul Soviet agent Irina wanted to exchange the identity of the mole in return for asylum. Smiley interviews analyst Connie Sachs, who was sacked for deducing that Soviet cultural attachГ© Alexei Polyakov was a military officer and suspecting he was running a mole in London. Knowing that Control had the same theory, Lacon asks Smiley to investigate, helped by Tarr's boss Peter Guillam and retired Special Branch officer Mendel. They had already begun receiving Soviet Intelligence from a secret source (Operation 'Witchcraft').ДЇield agent Ricki Tarr warns undersecretary Oliver Lacon that there is a mole at the top of the Circus. Percy Alleline becomes the new Chief, Bill Haydon his deputy, and Roy Bland and Toby Esterhase his lieutenants. Control and his right-hand man George Smiley are forced to retire, and Control dies soon after. Prideaux, realising the meeting is a trap, is shot as he tries to leave. In 1973 ' Control', head of British intelligence ('The Circus'), sends Jim Prideaux to Budapest to meet a Hungarian general who has the name of a mole at the top of British Intelligence.

#Spyparty controls series#

The novel had previously been adapted into the award-winning 1979 BBC television series of the same name with Alec Guinness playing the lead role of Smiley. The film also received three Oscar nominations: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and for Oldman, Best Actor. It won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. A critical and commercial success, it was the highest-grossing film at the British box office for three consecutive weeks. It premiered in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. The film was produced through the British company Working Title Films and financed by France's StudioCanal. It is set in London in the early 1970s and follows the hunt for a Soviet double agent at the top of the British secret service. The film stars Gary Oldman as George Smiley, with Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, CiarГЎn Hinds, David Dencik and Kathy Burke supporting. The screenplay was written by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan, based on John le CarrГ©'s 1974 novel of the same name. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 Cold War spy thriller film directed by Tomas Alfredson.