Codename Kyril

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Codename Kyril ★★½ 1991 (R)

Woodward plays a British spy pitted against Soviet assassin Kyril (Charleson) who's been sent to England by the KGB to rout out a double agent. Turns out there's more to it than Kyril knows, and nobody loves an assassin. Based on John Trenhaile's “A Man Called Kyril,” the script is slow from the gun, but eventually builds something akin to momentum. 115m/C VHS . Edward Woodward, Ian Charleson, Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, Richard E. Grant, SvenBertil Taube, Catherine Nielson, John McEnery, Peter Vaughan, James Laurenson; D: Ian Sharp; W: John Hopkins. CABLE

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