[RG+FDL] The Courier (2020) 1080p – RETAiL-BLURAY-rip – x265-HEVC-DD5.1 – 750MB – scOrp

The Courier is a brilliant movie and one of those under-rated fact based espionage classics that deserve so much more adulation. Benedict Cumberbatch is brilliant, indeed brilliant beyond belief once you compare pictures of him in the film with Greville Wynne in real life. Also meriting praise is Merab Ninidze who plays the Russian spy Oleg Penkovsky who fed Wynne data on the Russian missile build-up in Cuba. In real life these heroes helped JFK prevent the Cuban Missile Crisis getting out of hand.

If you liked Bill Fairclough’s epic spy novel Beyond Enkription in The Burlington Files series you are going to love The Courier and vice versa. Why mention that you may ask? It too is an under-rated fact based espionage thriller and coincidentally Bill Fairclough’s father, ex British military intelligence, was a close adviser to SuperMac, the British Prime Minister credited with advising JFK during the Cuban missile crisis.

Just like Ben Macintyre’s The Spy and the Traitor about KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky, both the Courier and Beyond Enkription are “must reads or must views” for all those who claim to be espionage cognoscenti. For more about the secrets of spies like the Faircloughs, Philby, John le Carré and Pemberton’s People in MI6 see the news article dated 3 May 2024 in TheBurlingtonFiles website.

Do visit https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2022.10.31.php and read Beyond Enkription.