Saying good-bye to summer this afternoon, I caught a matinee of
The Debt. This good spy thriller owes a lot to John Ford's classic
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Instead of following the life and career of an idealistic lawyer in the American Old West, it follows the lives of three Mossad agents who participate in a Cold War era capture an extract mission to bring a Nazi surgeon to justice. This film, however, takes a much grittier and realistic view of when history and mythology collide. It is definitely worth the price of admission.
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