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6. Have you seen the new movie "Bridge of Spies"?

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 08:20 AM

Oct 2015

Altho the Francis Gary Powers story is well enough known to us, it was still a very scary moment in history. The back story is captivating (Spielberg is a genius) as the strange turn of events develop. The lawyer defending Rudolph Abel and saving him from being executed (by arguing that we should keep him alive because perhaps in the future we may need to swap him for one of our spies...and sure enough, he was right) was anticipating a need to swap. But it turned out that he had ANOTHER American (being held in East Germany) to get released, a two for one. He managed to pull it off and got both of them.

This film is very suspenseful. Even tho we know the ending it is wonderful to see Spielberg work his craft so finely. Hanks was excellent, too as was the actor playing Abel.

Chilling ending which I won't reveal...

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