Tune Play THE RUSSIA HOUSE (1990) Jerry Goldsmith with Branford Marsalis

One of the most lauded films of it s year, 1990 s THE RUSSIA HOUSE based on the 1989 novel by literary spy master guru John le Carré, would ironically also become one of the biggest box office disappointments. A heady amalgam of political thriller, love story, historical treatise and debate film (a la TWELVE ANGRY MEN), it was perhaps too much of each, done so well as to alienate unsuspecting audiences seeking one or the other but not all at once. In the last of the great Cold War thrillers Sean Con