Tinker Tailor Soldier Chod

[M'coli]

There is another TTSS thread, but the search wouldn't turn it up.

 

Anyway, I'm just back from seeing the latest Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and it's a chod-fest!

Citroen DS (Although someone will be along soon to correct me and say it's actually an ID), Rover P6, Triumph 2000/2500, Triumph Herald, Viva HA, Marina, Peugeot 404, mk1 Transit, Alvis TD21, ADO16 and in the East, Barkas, Skoda 1000/1100 MB, Wartburg 353, the list goes on - a wonderful plethora of shite. The story's been well treated too.

[Vin]

Reviews I've heard/seen seem to be very favourable. I have the original Alec Guinness TV series on DVD. Love it.

Looking forward to seeing the Oldman version

[Pete-M]

I used to have an audio book of Alec Guinness reading his diary. Sounds crap but it was genuinely funny.

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

The Guardian are giving that Alec Guinness job away free as a podcast thing at the moment.

 

I'm off to see this film today, can't wait!

[M'coli]

It's great. Look out for the green mk1 Escort with the brown/orange stripe - that had me bouncing in my seat as my grandfather had one virtually identical in the early 80s!

[scooters]

Read the trioligy 20 years ago and last year got all 3 books unabridged audio from audible (GR9 4 KEEPING SHITTER ENTERTAINED WHEN FACING A 9 HOUR RAC RESCUE)

 

Brilliant...up there with Patrick O Brian and Iain (M) Banks in the Scooter all time fave.....can't wait to see the film...what a cast and the directors last film..Let the right one in...is pure dead brilliuunt too

[Andrew353w]

Can't wait to see the film! I'm a total Le Carre fan, having read all the books, and have the original 1970's version with Sir Alec Guinness on DVD (I wore the video out!) as well as the earlier radio dramatisation with Bernard Hepton as George Smiley, broadcast on the BBC in the late 1980's. The cars in the Alec Guinness film are great, so I'm hoping for a repeat autoshite fest in thennew one, as well as a bloody good film.

 

There's a bit in the original film where Jim Prideaux is driven to meet General Stevchek and is collected in a Fiat from a football stadium in Brno in what was then Czechoslovakia. I always though that ought to have been a Polski Fiat, to add authenticity.... I REALLY need to get a life!

[chaseracer]

...Iain (M) Banks...

One of the best modern writers IN EVAR. And a car nut, too...

[barrett]

Another '+1' from me in general agreement as to the quality of A) Le Carre in general, The 70s TV adaptation and a strong desire to see the new filum version. If I had any money I was going to go on Friday, as it turns out I can't even afford to buy any dinner so I guess I'll be waiting for a while....

 

I'll also recommend the recent BBC Radio 4 adaptations 'The Complete Smiley' which dramatised every book that old George appeared in - Simon Russel Beale doing a very good job of sounding EXACTLY like Alec Guinness too. If anyone wants them drop me a PM and I'll email them to you (or if there's enough interest host them somewhere for download)