Includes bibliographical references (pages 240- 247) and index.
Contents
The 39 steps -- Maugham, Ambler, and Greene -- On the air, on the screen, and in word-balloons -- McCarthy, television, and film noir -- "Cloak and swagger" -- From George Smiley to Bernard Sampson -- The Cold War inside out -- From the "evil empire" to "the great Satan" -- Big screen pyrotechnics and eyes in the sky -- More fact than fiction.