Game - The 5 Elements

[Ginger_Yellow]

1. Library
2. Don’t turn back
3. KLM (uh huh, uh huh)
4. Tribunal
5. Desk job
6. Control

[dtolman]

Uh…I’m lost on #3, so… Raiders of the Lost Ark?

[Ginger_Yellow]

If it helps, the bit in parenthesis is just me having fun. I can’t say KLM without thinking of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDsCeC6f0zc

[JoshL]

They’re justified, and they’re ancient, but they don’t know what the movie is.

[dtolman]

Somehow I missed this song…30 years ago I’m guessing? LOL.

[Ginger_Yellow]

Yeah, it was a little bit before my time, but then I got into Discordianism and Illuminatus! in my teens, and rediscovered the KLF about 10 years after they were big. Plus it’s just a banging tune.

This is the one I actually knew contemporaneously:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsAVx0u9Cw4

[Gordon_Cameron]

3 A.M. Eternal is a straight up classic. So IMO are Last Train To Transcentral and What Time Is Love (all from ‘The White Room’).

[Buckaroo]

Maybe because of Control, but l have a spy movie feeling about that one. Also, KLM may be a reference to a hijacked plane (e.g. by the PLO).

[ArtVandelay]

@Buckaroo

Maybe because of Control, but l have a spy movie feeling about that one.

Wait, this is another LeCarre, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. I’m not sure about KLM, I think maybe Leamas’ defection involves a cover story about working for KLM? But all the other clues fit.

[Buckaroo]

Yes, l realised after having posted : don’t turn back… “tribunal”… it has to be it. l also don’t remember for KLM.

[Ginger_Yellow]

Correctamundo, thank God. I was running out of even vaguely subtle clues.

1. Library - Leamas’s initial cover when pretending to defect is working in a library, where the communist patsy works
2. Don’t turn back – the advice of the person driving Leamas and the patsy to the Wall
3. KLM (uh huh, uh huh) – when Leamas is “extracted” behind the Iron Curtain, he takes a KLM flight.
4. Tribunal - the Stasi (?) mole is put before a tribunal before being vindicated at Fiedler’s expense
5. Desk job - the assignment that ostensibly drove Leamas from MI6
6. Control - Was running, or at least was made to look like he was running, the double agent

[ArtVandelay]

I’m 2/2 on Le Carre adaptations! A new movie coming up soon.

[ArtVandelay]

Next up:

1. Overalls
2. Anachronisms
3. Biker gang
4. Bus ride
5. Rock & Roll

[Djscman]

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure?

[Gordon_Cameron]

Gimme Shelter?

[ArtVandelay]

@Djscman

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure?

Not Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.

@Gordon_Cameron

Gimme Shelter?

Not this either.

[BellaConfusione]

Bottle Rocket?

[Cormac]

Grease?

[ArtVandelay]

Not Bottle Rocket or Grease, Although that may be on the right track.

[ArtVandelay]

@Ginger_Yellow

Correctamundo, thank God. I was running out of even vaguely subtle clues.

1. Library - Leamas’s initial cover when pretending to defect is working in a library, where the communist patsy works
2. Don’t turn back – the advice of the person driving Leamas and the patsy to the Wall
3. KLM (uh huh, uh huh) – when Leamas is “extracted” behind the Iron Curtain, he takes a KLM flight.
4. Tribunal - the Stasi (?) mole is put before a tribunal before being vindicated at Fiedler’s expense
5. Desk job - the assignment that ostensibly drove Leamas from MI6
6. Control - Was running, or at least was made to look like he was running, the double agent

By the way, and speaking of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, has anyone here read A Legacy of Spies? A sequel 55 years later is not something I expected, but the geriatric spy fiction turned out surprisingly well.