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Break in the Circle

The very thing asked for is Humphrey Bogart in Key Largo and The Big Sleep, as the basis for From Russia with Love. Guest engineers this so very brilliantly that his Véry flares went off all through the Harry Palmer series and into The Parallax View, with a significant afterimage in Ordeal by Innocence.

Or call it the midpoint between Cloak and Dagger on the one hand and Torn Curtain on the other. Terence Young’s beautiful analysis accepts certain larger aspects of the work as sketches for a general layout mobilized by action sequences. Mike Hodges took another tack in Get Carter by emphasizing the tragic discontinuity of the editing.

A profound memory of The Third Man rises to the surface at resonant moments. Guest brings all this to a point in a punchline anticipating The Pumpkin Eater.

 

Casino Royale

The work has been routed by some critics from the domain of art, which is zealously guarded by some critics. It is, of course, a work of genius.