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
Release date
February 1, 1970 (1970-02-01)
Running time
121 minutes
Country
United States
Languages
English
Russian
Budget
$6,095,000[1]
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]
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]
^Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p256
^Seymour, Gene. "100 Greatest Spy Movies: A Special Collector's Edition from the Editors of American History. 2009. Weider History Group.
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^https://nytimes.com, Noel Behn, 70, Novelist, Producer and Screenwriter, 31 July 1998, retrieved 31 December 2008
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