“The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.” January 15, 2007, TV. We’d never seen this 1961 chestnut with Richard Burton about a cold war spy locked in a game of double deceits. This is John LeCarre’s first really big hit as a novel. A very fine movie of deception, duplicity, despair, and devotion to people or causes. See it again if you haven’t lately. Sad to say, it still rings true in the age of the Iraq War, a war of false meaning crafted to justify the unjustifiable