北极光

英国摄制的间谍动作片，根据佛德烈．福赛的畅销小说改编，描述苏联的情报局计划展开一场惊天大阴谋，目的是要摧毁北大西洋公约组织和英美两国的友好关系。他们派出一名高级情报员乔装混入英国的一个小镇，伺机在当地的美军基地装置核弹加以破坏。迈克．凯恩饰演的英国间谍侦破这个阴谋，乃千方百计阻止奸计得逞。有趣的是饰演苏联特务的皮尔斯．布鲁斯南，日后却成为苏联特务的克星007。导演约翰．麦肯西处理气氛尚称紧凑，而冰天雪地的外景则增加了戏剧场景的可看性。KGB agent Major Valeri Petrofsky has been reassigned at the request of the KGB Chairman for a secret mission wherein he is sent to England to establish a residence near an American military base and receive various items from couriers from the USSR. John Preston is the top British spy catcher, currently at odds with his superior because he doesn't lick his boots. After he conducts an operation without his superior's permission caused his superior some embarrassment, he is reassigned to the menial task of overseeing airports and ports. One day one the couriers Petrofsky was expecting comes off a freighter has an accident which leaves him dead. Preston is informed by the pathologist that the man is not a seaman so Preston goes through his things and finds that he was carrying something which he is told is an atomic bomb component. Preston now suspects that someone is bringing in parts for an atomic bomb, his superior doesn't want to let Preston be proven right so he doesn't authorize further action and suspends Preston. But a man who works with intelligence approaches Preston saying he might be right because a sleeper transmitter went active twice once probably to alert Moscow that he is in place and the second sent after the man's death probably to inform that the component he was delivering wasn't received. So the man offers to let Preston find the man who is bringing in the bomb. And back in the USSR, Petrofsky's boss is so disgruntled that Petrofsky and so much of his department's resources are being taken by the Chairman for his op, that he calls his old friend, the Vice-Chairman of the KGB, to find out what's going on because he believes that the Chairman wouldn't be able to do any of these things without his friend's input. But his friend is just as incredulous as he is. So he tries to find out what the Chairman is up to.