Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Shame: 'Two tremendous pictures' at the Venice film festival - video (5min 10sec)

The writers of "MI-5" understand their debt to the author of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy."

Book III, The Soldier Spies (also published as Give me Liberty) (1986)

He likes cowboy movies, holds Cary Grant in awe and admires the well-stitched quality of British television series like "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy."

Smith-Cumming was the basis for the fictional head of the SIS Control in the John le Carre espionage novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

Clements, Jonathan (2009) Mannerheim: President, Soldier, Spy.

The unseasonably hot weather made parks, gardens and roof terraces the collective winners, and cinemas the losers, with only one film, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, managing box-office at £1m-plus.

BBC Radio Four, 'Soldier, Scientist, Spy ... and Fraud'.

That atmosphere, he wrote, "was very much as I portrayed it in 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.' "

Last week's No. 9 film, Focus Features' "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," dropped out of the top 10 this week.