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htertainmgnt 6E Sun-Sentinel, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 1984 Mediocre 'Jigsaw Man' missing pieces Movie review 4 1 THE JIGSAW MAN A British tpy who defected year ego to the Soviet Union return to England and trie to evade capture. Credit: With Michael Caine, Sir Laurence Olivier end Susan George. Directed by Terence Young. Violence.

I 1 By Candice Russell Film Writer What a nasty business espionage is as moviegoers well-versed in this currently unpopular genre of films already know. The Jigsaw Man stokes this cliche with far from earth-shaking results. This decidedly mediocre, frequently stupid spy thriller is bearable because of two fine actors Michael Caine and Sir Laurence Olivier. They play embattled former colleagues in the international espionage game. Caine is Philip Kimberley, an Englishman who used to head the British Secret Service before voluntarily defecting to the Soviet Union in 1974.

Olivier is Admiral Scaith, the current Secret Service Chief, a steely-willed, tactless old codger. Both men once loved the same woman who married Kimberley and later took her own life. It is the unresolved tension of their earlier relationship that slightly elevates the story beyond inevitable cat-and-mouse pursuits. But what tortured convolutions are written by Jo Eisinger (from the novel by Dorothea Bennett) to get these men together. The 62-year-old Kimberley is a "drunken embarrassment" to Russian authorities in Moscow who believe he has outlived his usefulness.

They transform his appearance through plastic surgery that makes him look 20 years younger in fact like Michael Caine (who with hair dyed shoe-polish brown bears a peculiar resemblance to Jackie Gleason). Then the Russians pack Kimberley off to England with three hit men to retrieve an important document that he had hidden there years ago. That document is a payroll list of KGB agents in the West for the past 40 years. In return for it Kimberley will get a comfortable retirement in Switzerland, though he suspects the Russians will kill him before he gets to buy his first cuckoo clock. With his new face and faked passport as Sergei Kuzminsky, Kimberley manages to defect while going through customs in London.

As the shaky plot would have it, he also gets away from the tentacles of British au- thorities when a secret service agent leaves a questioning room because of a weak bladder. Now instead of being under the Russian thumb, Kimberley is a free agent on the lam from everyone and trying to secure his skin by making a deal for the document with Scaith. Helping him evade discovery from both the Russians and the English is Kimberley's adult daughter Penny (Susan George), whose letters to him in Moscow went unanswered for a decade. No matter. This is where The Jigsaw Man becomes as flimsy as a cardboard puzzle thrown in Lake Worth.

No sooner does Daddy warn her that the KGB will look for her than Penny gives her apartment to a girlfriend. You dont have to have read Led Three Lives to fig- ure out what the Russians might do to this unsuspecting woman. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold this isn't. Terence Young directs in workmanlike fashion, hurrying unnecessarily through a( concluding sequence in a hospital that too neatly dispatches with the enemy and reunites friends and lovers. Caine is interesting to watch because he's intensely cerebral and in this case so much better than the material.

Olivier seems to be enjoy- ing himself, carping at less principled colleagues and nursing the guilt of past mistakes where Kimberley is concerned. But even these two titans cannot put the pieces in place for The Jigsaw Man and redeem it from being more than ordinary TV movie fodder. L- 1 gfOFiilfil irii 1i il Inhiiiaaaliiri ffllaTil ii li'Hiili Penny (Susan George) is surprised by her estranged father, Sir Philip Kimberley (Michael Caine) after he has defected from the KGB 'AN EROTIC -NEW YORK 'KWf I IAC.AZ1NE l.Mlf C.a)i WQt 1 MAC.AZ1NE A 1 1 Kh ALU 1.1 MLM.s MANOR ART ERENDIRA Dinner a DOUBLE FEATURE Mat Shoai Sunday CM fo Titm OPEN 10-30 TH. 12 FRI I SAT Til 3 AM t2 0O OFF WITH AO 111 I1SM CINEMA 'tim. IRENE PAPAS I I SEPT.

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