Watch The Whistle Blower (1987) Free Online

Release Date: 1987

Cast: Felicity Dean, David Langton, Michael Caine, Barry Foster, James Fox, Gordon Jackson, Kenneth Colley, John Gielgud, Dinah Stabb, Nigel Havers

Categories: Movies, Crime Thriller, Action/Adventure, Action, Political Thriller, Thriller

The Whistle Blower is a 1986 British spy thriller film, starring Michael Caine, based on the novel of the same name by John Hale. Frank Jones (Caine) is a retired British naval officer, who is now a businessman. His bright but naive and idealistic son, Robert (Havers), works as a linguist at GCHQ a top secret British intelligence agency, using his love of Russian to listen to various pieces of communication on the other side of the Iron Curtain. The film opens on Remembrance Day in Whitehall, as the war veterans line up to walk past the Cenotaph, then moves back to a conversation between... MORE

The Whistle Blower is a 1986 British spy thriller film, starring Michael Caine, based on the novel of the same name by John Hale. Frank Jones (Caine) is a retired British naval officer, who is now a businessman. His bright but naive and idealistic son, Robert (Havers), works as a linguist at GCHQ a top secret British intelligence agency, using his love of Russian to listen to various pieces of communication on the other side of the Iron Curtain. The film opens on Remembrance Day in Whitehall, as the war veterans line up to walk past the Cenotaph, then moves back to a conversation between Jones and his son at Robert's flat some months earlier, where Robert tells Jones that strange things are happening at GCHQ, and he's planning on leaving and marrying an older woman called Cynthia (Dean) he's fallen in love with. Robert says a Soviet mole was found, and that security is all over the place encouraging people to rat on each other. The higher ups seem convinced that if they don't do something, their American friends in the CIA will stop working with them. Frank isn't thrilled over the marriage plans, and he tells his son before he leaves that it's unlikely anything off key can be LESS