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   05-27-2007, 6:33 PM
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The Sandbaggers, Callan
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I would like to recommend the ITV television series recently released on DVD called The Sandbaggers to anyone who is a fan of Ayn Rand. With episode titles like "Decision by Committee", "First Principals", etc., you may already be getting the drift of what this brilliant, pro-individualist, anti group-think series was all about. Plot: Small band of crack British Spies defend and attack Communism along with their own inept Govnt, led by a glorious egoist Director of Operations. This show  has been called the greatest Spy program ever made, and as a fan of Fleming, Le Carre (only his early work) and James Clavell, let me say that this title rings true. I blew through all 20 episodes of the series. The series creator, an ex Royal Navy officer, sadly died half-way through the 3rd season and in Howard Roark-colors, ITV ended the show citing that no one could have done it better than the person who created it.

Also, Callan is another fantastic series and a wonderful choice for fans of Ayn Rand if you can get your hands on it. Callan is a secret agent/hitman that needs to first identify if his prey is indeed guilty of their crime, and then exacts his own measure of justice on them - sometimes quite different than what his masters would have liked.

Most of LeCarre's early spy novels are excellent and the two movies featuring Alec Guinness are great. Just don't look at his recent anti-western, anti-American garbage. Let's be happy that he was who he was when it mattered. (the cynicism of his work is well noted and for the most part, the criticism is a load of bs)


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