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Originally Posted by GRAEME
No, but it's odd that the screenplay was done by Paul Dehn who had also done the adaptation of "The Spy Who came in from the Cold" the previous year. In this, Rupert Davies played Smiley and was given the proper name.
Does anybody know why they changed George Smiley's name in this film?
No, but it's odd that the screenplay was done by Paul Dehn who had also done the adaptation of "The Spy Who came in from the Cold" the previous year. In this, Rupert Davies played Smiley and was given the proper name.
Strange.
Any new Le Carre fans to the site know the answer?
The IMDb says:
John Le Carr�'s hero George Smiley was renamed Charles Dobbs because Paramount had the rights to the Smiley name after producing The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) the year before - also scripted by Paul Dehn - and later co-produced (with the BBC) the two mini-series with Alec Guinness as Smiley: "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" (1979) and "Smiley's People" (1982). Also re-named was Dieter Freey as Smiley's antagonist, Hans-Dieter Mundt (Peter van Eyck in The Spy Who Came In From The Cold).
Steve
There's no Smiley in the film version of The Looking Glass War either. Ray McAnally's Minister gets to do most of his stuff though.
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