Great Film

There have been several films that I have seen that cut real deep. The blade on the edge of this one was one of the most sharpest.
Frederick Fortsyth is a genius at capturing suspence.
Every chapter every paragraph every sentence until every word.
Jon Voigt was cast supremley as was his alias Edward Roshman.
From the start with the Perry Coma " White Christmas" until the Chateaux with Roshman makes it undoutabally a classic.
Dont make a remake.
You will mess it up big time!

Fantastic movie I saw as a kid on the giant screen. I'm the type of guy who's a sucker for big atmospheric settings like that pub scene (don't remember, was it during Octoberfest?) with all that rusticity, singing & beer steins. Incidentially I saw it double billed with 'The Black Windmill' another terrific old Euro-set thriller w/Michael Caine. Titles like Italian Job, Day of the Jackal, Tony Argenta, Marathon Man, Cold Sweat, Operation Daybreak, Ipcress File, Eiger Sanction, The Mechanic, Man on the Roof (even the lesser ones) Puppet on a Chain, Salsburg Connection, etc. were all the order of the day. Being a film buff growing up in the 70s, these were the best!

Ingredients from those films are being recaptured by younger filmmakers now (like with the Bourne movies).