The 1960s were the decade of spy films. That’s not to say there weren’t spy films before and after that decade. Spy films go all the way back to the silent era with films such as The General (1926) and Spione (1928). Hitchcock put the genre to good use throughout his career (The 39 Steps, …
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El Cantor
Communists loved Dean Reed. Coming, as he did from America, but rejecting his home country’s imperialistic meddling in the affairs of others, he was the perfect poster boy for the superiority of socialism over capitalism. Reed, after all, had been performing in concerts all over South America, and saw firsthand how the CIA helped Onganía …
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