The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (2011)
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A son's riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller, The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby uncovers the secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colby's son Carl, the story is at once a probing history of the… More A son's riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller, The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby uncovers the secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colby's son Carl, the story is at once a probing history of the CIA, a personal memoir of a family living in clandestine shadows, and an inquiry into the hard costs of a nation's most cloaked actions. -- (C) Official Site
- Directed By
- Carl Colby
- Genres
- Documentary, Special Interest
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Sep 23, 2011 Limited
- Studio
- First Run Features
Critic Reviews
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Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
At once a deeply personal film and an important historical document, The Man Nobody Knew leaves us with an incomplete portrait of a man.
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Tom Long, Detroit News
There's a reason spies are called spooks; it's as if they have no human essence. If William Colby had one, his son hasn't found it in this film. But he has found the emptiness. And that's something.
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Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
Presumably, Colby would be pleased to know he comes across as neither compelling nor vivid - which in some ways makes him all the more interesting.
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Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
To some degree, its subject remains tantalizingly unknowable, even after all the witnesses have taken the stand.
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J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fascinating.
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Cast
- Carl Colby
- Barbara Colby
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Gen. Brent Scowcroft
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Bob Woodward
- Bob Kerrey
- James Schlesinger
- Dale Andrade
- Tim Weiner
- Seymour Hersh
- Corrado Cantatore
- Jonathan Jordan Clarke
- Daren Flitcroft
- Donald Gregg
- Fisher Howe
- Thomas Hughes
- Oleg Kalugin
- John Langan
- James Lilley
- Edward N. Luttwak
- Thomas McCoy
- Robert McFarlane
- Elizabeth McIntosh
- H.R. McMaster
- Prof. Hugh Montgomery
- John Nagl
- Rufus Phillips
- Walter Pincus
- Daniel Schorr
- Laurence Silberman
- John Singlaub
- Joseph W. Smith
- Evan Thomas
- Hugh Tovar
- Judge William Webster
- Steve Young
