Review – The Kremlin Letter

This is one of those movies from the 60s that leaves one wondering how a cast this good could make a movie this bad. Orson Welles and Max von Sydow are just two of the actors who briefly decorate this boring excuse for a spy thriller. The McGuffin is a letter that exposes a plot involving the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. Perhaps a more straightforward production might have been able to do something interesting with the set-up. This one, on the other hand, immediately strays into an almost surreal parade of macho posturing that goes on well beyond the point where it loses all entertainment value. Some good spy stories came from this period in film history, but this certainly isn’t one of them. See if desperate