“Venetian” opens with a bang — an explosion at the table of a nuclear disarmament summit, and the person to blame is one of the men sitting there: the diplomat repping the United States. Fenner, now replete with sobriety issues, is called back into action in a plot that involves peeping telescopes, fatal gunshots, secret […]
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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24 Hours to Kill / Assignment to Kill
In 1965’s “24 Hours to Kill,” the title carries a winking dual meaning. Mickey Rooney is Jonesy, part of an airline crew en route to Athens, but forced to make an emergency landing in Beirut, of all locales. As soon as he’s on the ground and headed to the hotel, he notices he’s being followed. […]