The Kremlin Letter
1970 film by John Huston / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Kremlin Letter is a 1970 American spy thriller film in Panavision[2] directed by John Huston and starring Richard Boone, Orson Welles, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Patrick O'Neal, and George Sanders. It was released in February 1970 by 20th Century-Fox.[3]
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Directed by | John Huston |
Screenplay by | John Huston Gladys Hill |
Based on | The Kremlin Letter 1966 novel by Noel Behn |
Produced by | Carter DeHaven Sam Wiesenthal |
Starring | Bibi Andersson Richard Boone Nigel Green Dean Jagger Patrick O'Neal George Sanders Max von Sydow Orson Welles |
Cinematography | Edward Scaife |
Edited by | Russell Lloyd |
Music by | Robert Jackson Drasnin |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
Country | United States |
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Budget | $6,095,000[1] |
The screenplay by Huston and Gladys Hill was based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Noel Behn, who had worked for the United States Army's Counterintelligence Corps.[4] Said by reviewers to be "beautifully"[5] and "engagingly"[6] photographed, the film is a highly complex and amoral tale of bitter intrigue and espionage[6] set in the winter of 1969–1970 at the height of the US–Soviet Cold War.
The Kremlin Letter was a commercial failure and thinly reviewed in 1970, but the film has gathered steady praise from some critics throughout the decades since its release. French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville called The Kremlin Letter "masterly" and "...saw it as establishing the standard for cinema."[7]