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Barry Foster, David Langton, Dinah Stabb

In this 1987 espionage thriller, Michael Caine is Frank Jones, a businessman and patriotic war veteran whose son Bob (Nigel Havers) is a Russian linguist who works at the intelligence-gathering Govern...( read more  read more... )ment Communications Headquarters. A few days after Bob expresses doubts to his father about aspects of his work, police report to Frank that his son has died in a fall, and a verdict of accidental death is recorded. However, in the midst of his grief, Frank is puzzled by the circumstances of his son's death and decides to conduct his own investigation. In so doing he finds himself pitted against an utterly unscrupulous Secret Service prepared to stop at nothing, including murder, to cover up their operations. Set during a time when concerns about GCHQ were at their height and the Cold War had yet to thaw, many of the film's concerns seem, years subsequently, to be thankfully dated. Moreover, it's hard to believe that the bumbling British Secret Service would actually be capable of organizing a convivial soiree in a brewery, let alone orchestrating the sort of skullduggery they perpetrate here. Still, with a cast that features all the usual British suspects (Sir John Gielgud, James Fox, Gordon Jackson), there's no doubting the pedigree of The Whistle Blower, which, despite its ostensibly uncomfortable message, actually makes for very agreeable comfort viewing. --David Stubbs

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PG, 100 min.

Directed by: Simon Langton

Release Date: July 10, 1987

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DVD Release Date: December 3, 2002

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  • garyX
    January 9, 2007
    garyX
    A decent cast try their best to hold together the kind of convoluted and hysterical cold war spy nonsense that looks rather ridiculous in this day and age. And fail.
  • 339z
    November 12, 2008
    339z
    wow what a movie 2 watch...i have just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a really good Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Drama movie 2 watch...its got a really good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie its really enjoyable throughout this movie....( read more)..i think that micheal caine is a great actor n hes really good throughout this movie...i think that the director of this Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Drama movie had done a really good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie n its a really enjoyable Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Drama movie 2 watch
  • thebigalex
    July 18, 2007
    thebigalex
    Just the cinematography was weird it didn't have a movie feel to it. The filming seemed like it was done with nothing better than a hand held camera!

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