Richard Burton is ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ on Criterion Channel !Featured, Academy Award nominee, BAFTA winner, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, literary adaptation, spies and espionage, SVOD, thriller 08/19/202108/19/2021 Sean Axmaker Martin Ritt directs this superb film of John le Carré’s novel, the first of many adaptations of le Carré’s wary novels of Cold War espionage and still one of the best.