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 is a retired British naval officer, who is now a businessman. His bright but naive and idealistic son, Robert , 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 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.
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| Release date: | 1987 |
| Directed by: | Simon Langton |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Producer: | Geoffrey Reeve |
| Screenplay by: | Julian Bond |
| Adapted from: | Whistle Blower |
| Genre: | Action, Thriller |