Just saw 'Bridge of Spies'.

[trof]

Excellent. I was about 16 when this was happening during the cold war.
Francis Gary Powers and Rudolph Abel.
Tom Hanks is primo, as usual.

[Skittles]

1. it's on my list

I saw the excellent promo; love getting a recommendation on DU - thanks!

[catnhatnh]

2. I'm thinking someone on this thread

really started cringing when that Russian missile was suddenly able to reach that altitude...

[trof]

6. Moi?

[Logical]

3. Great movie! Hanks was great also. nt

[BlueJazz]

4. Saw it Sunday. Very well acted, great form, well written.

[CTyankee]

5. I was very impressed. telling everyone to SEE IT...

So many chilling moments...seeing that wall going up gave me reverberations of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The plane scene with Powers was scary as hell. I'm reccing it to everyone!

[Laffy Kat]

16. Ditto!

Also enjoyed the plane scene. I was born in '57 so really don't remember much, but the movie inspired me to do more research. If you like historic movies, you'll love "Bridge of Spies."

[Fla Dem]

7. Going to see it Wednesday. Thanks for the thumbs up.

I was a little younger than you and I'm frankly surprised that I recall the incident so well basically because I was a kid, and also we certainly didn't have the access to 24 hour news or the internet. It was basically ABC, NBC, and CBS news at 6:00. But I definitely do remember.

[Paladin]

8. It's an intelligent, valuable movie.

Valuable, because it will give younger people an idea of just what a scary world their parents and grandparents lived through, back in the 50's and 60's. Hiding under school desks as a preventative measure against an A-bomb blast was just a part of it. Do you other old-timers remember air raid siren tests every week? Sonic booms? People in your neighborhoods constructing underground shelters? Do any of you recall, as I do, helping to pack your family car in the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, because the outbreak of World War III seemed probable? Spielberg's movie doesn't depict most of those things, but it certainly brought all of them back to me.

[yourout]

9. Mark Rylance should be a shoo in for a best supporting actor Oscar.

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Hanks was very good.....Mark Rylance as Rudolf Abel was even better.

Edited for grammar.

[Paladin]

10. Wasn't Rylance extraordinary?

An absolute gem of understated, effective acting. I hope he snags the Oscar, and I hope we see a lot more of him on-screen.

[trof]

14. Agree, but...

I think it's 'shoo' in.
As in SHOO!
Sorry, can't help myself.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

11. My F-I-L had the job of keeping Powers' wife away from the press

...which involved driving her around a lot.

[trof]

13. Interesting. I also have a connection of sorts.

I knew the pilot who I think flew Powers out of West Berlin.
I have copies of some air force commendations that indicate he was the one.
I've been in contact with Francis Gary Powers Jr.
http://garypowers.org/about-gary/

[LuckyLib]

12. It is very well done. Spielberg is able to drop us into those

settings and situations of the past with levels of micro-detail that are simply astounding. Two very fine lead actors.

[DawgHouse]

15. If it's as good as these written by kids, I can't wait to see it~

http://www.eonline.com/news/707186/tom-hanks-and-jimmy-fallon-perform-bridge-of-spies-kid-theater-watch-now

[CTyankee]

17. you will love it, I don't know how anyone can't.

Spielberg pulls off a really suspenseful film about a story we know the ending to. But the details are just so fabulous! And I checked online and it's mostly been rated as pretty close to the facts...

[trof]

18. FUNNY! Thanks.

[kairos12]

19. While in the service I crossed CP Charlie many times