#Len Deighton

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[davidhudson]

Happy 95th, Len Deighton.

[alanofalltrades]

I'm watching The Ipcress File and within 26 seconds this movie delivers more sensual energy than James Bond films ever could

[audiemurphy1945]

Billion Dollar Brain(1967)

[theblackestofsuns]

[ivovynckier]

John Barry's theme for the spy movie "The Ipcress File".

[tunasaladonwhite]

[shelbycarpenter]

[nebraskaenergy]

Police State Britain: the Sky Grows Darker

So some poofters in Britain and the EU think they are so very elite that they can threaten to arrest an American citizen in the United States for violating their fascist hate speech laws. Well, nothing new under the sun then, in a document published by Tom Jefferson, after opening with the words, “When in the course of human events…” he wrote “ He has combined with others to subject us to a…

[giftideasfromaycaramba]

During the revolutionaries' arduous march through the rain forest (with its powerful metaphor of entropy and decay), nature, chance and human ineptitude inexorably claim their victims

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H I N G

[zmkccommonplace]

Bravery is just the knack of suppressing signs of your own fear.

Len Deighton, Yesterday’s Spy

[torchlitinthedesert]

Len Deighton wanted to cast the Beatles in the movie version:

"...Bertrand Russell mentioned the Beatles to me, saying that they wanted to make an 'anti-war film' and wanted me to produce it...

"Paul McCartney came and we devoured the vast curry, drank beer and talked and talked until the small hours of the morning. I was writing and producing Oh! What A Lovely War. To create a narrative I had made the central characters into the Smith Family and the four Beatles could have fitted into this role. But understandably, they wanted to have their own music and their own lyrics. The two projects just wouldn't fit together and, although Paul and I hoped that we could do something together at some future date, we never did."

John and George using their musical going days to cast Victor Spinetti for AHDN. ❤

[jimkeeley]

Musu the Brewcat by Jim Keeley Via Flickr: Waredaca Brewing Company Laytonsville, Maryland

[leftenantjopson]

On the Cyclical Nature of War

And It Cannot Be Changed, Francisco Goya/All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque/The Next War, Osbert Sitwell/Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, Ilya Repin/The Parable of the Old Man and the Young, Wilfred Owen/Saturn Devouring His Son, Fransisco Goya/Green Fields of France, Eric Bogle/I Want Nothing in Return, Dennis Scholl/Bomber, Len Deighton/Masters of the Air, Donald Miller/Jörmungandr in the Sea during Ragnarok, Louis MoeAgnus Dei, Francisco de Zurbarán/Masters of the Air, Donald Miller/Grass, Carl Sandburg/Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream, Simon and Garfunkel

[shelbycarpenter]