| The Kremlin Letter | |
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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 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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