Sentences with phrase «american secret agent»

She played Alicia Huberman, the alcoholic daughter of a man who committed suicide after being tagged as a World War II traitor, leading an American secret agent (Cary Grant) to use her to get close to Alexander Sebastian, (Claude Rains) the head of a Nazi group hiding in Brazil.

John Cusack is Paul Soames, an American secret agent posing as a journalist in 1941 Shanghai, just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Stewart decision to make a drama about the imprisonment of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari — who fielded questions alongside him, as did the Mexican actor who plays him, Gael Garcia Bernal — was instigated when an appearance Bahari made in a filmed comedy sketch on «The Daily Show» was used against him when the Islamic regime accused him of being a traitor and American secret agent.

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It has indeed caused «severe embarrassment» to the nation, as he laments, for the Senate investigation has laid before the public the elements of a terrible irony: that acts which are illegal and unethical for citizens to engage in at home are condoned, even aggressively pursued, by American law - enforcement officers and secret agents both at home and abroad.

In theory, secret agents might be able to induce cancer in a leftist South American president with a severely weakened immune system.

The plot was an American classic: FBI agent pretends to be a member of the old Soviet KGB, offers cash for secrets, and then whips out his badge and makes the arrest.

The movie is based on a 2013 novel by Jason Matthews, an ex-CIA operative who reportedly brought much of his expertise to a story of two secret agents, one Russian and one American, navigating intricate surveillance missions around the world in a game of one - upmanship.

This is classic Hitchcock setup: a woman who knows too much and suddenly finds herself heading north by northwest as various mysterious antagonists begin to threaten and shadow her, and her «protector,» an American Secret Service agent, is ambivalent toward her.

Heat Vision reported on Wednesday that he plans on directing an adaptation of the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. For those unable to watch it when it aired between 1964 and 1968, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. follows two secret agents — one American and one Russian — as they work for U.N.C.L.E. (the United Network Command for Law Enforcement) against the evil organization THRUSH (Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity).

In the aftermath of a deadly attack on American forces in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, diplomats are slow to act, but meanwhile, FBI special agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) assembles a secret team of U.S. counter-terrorism investigators to enter the city and find the criminal behind what has quickly become an international incident.

From there, in a section that seems to go on forever, Lawrence does her spying to get information from American agent Nathaniel Nash (Joel Edgerton) and his link to secret intelligence trying to take down the Kremlin, and also help Dominika escape from her uncle and the Red Sparrows.

A little - remembered 1969 movie, The Chairman was a vaguely Hitchcockian thriller which reunited star Gregory Peck with director J. Lee Thompson (after Cape Fear) and saw Peck play an American double agent who pretends to defect to the Chinese in order to steal some secrets off them, meeting Chairman Mao along the way.

The film will be directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Revolutionary Road) and will have Daniel Craig reprise his role as the legendary British secret agent.

Where the Kingsman emulate their upper - class betters through bespoke suits and manners, the Statesman take their cues from American Westerns (cowboys to be more precise), skimming the proceeds from their highly lucrative whiskey distillery to fund their secret agent adventures.

At Lisbon airport, an American businessman is mistaken for a British secret - agent, by friend and foe alike, with hilarious consequences.

The American Erik «Killmonger» Stevens (Michael B. Jordan), son of T'Chaka's secret agent brother N'Jobu (Sterling K. Brown) and a prolifically lethal Special Forces veteran, wants to take over the throne, to avenge his father's death at T'Chaka's hands, but also to give oppressed people (including African - Americans in the United States) the high tech weapons needed to rise up.

When FBI agent Peter Connelly (Isaacs) investigates the murder of a beautiful American woman in Jerusalem, he soon discovers that the holiest city on earth hides an unholy secret.

Retconning the backstory of The Secret Service, The Golden Circle then sends these last remaining Kingsmen off to the former colonies in search of Statesman, a hitherto unknown American counterpart organization disguised as a distillery in Kentucky, with cowboy agents code - named after beverages: Ginger Ale (Halle Berry), Whiskey (Pedro Pascal), Tequila (Channing Tatum, in what turns out to be a glorified cameo), and the head honcho, Champagne (Jeff Bridges), who goes by «Champ.»