1985 Israel MOVIE FILM POSTER Hebrew FALCON & SNOWMAN Sean PENN Timothy HUTTON

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Here for sale is an ORIGINAL beautifuly illustrated colorful ISRAELI Theatre POSTER which was published in 1986 for the ISRAELI PREMIERE of "FALCON And The SNOWMAN" with SEAN PENN and TIMOTHY HUTTON ,  Directed by JOHN SCHLESINGER .
The poster was issued in 1985-6 by the Israeli distributers of the film . Kindly note : This is an ISRAELI MADE poster - Designed , Printed and distributed only in Israel . Size around 24" x 32" . The poster is in very good condition. Printed on thin chromo paper. Folded twice. One visible transverse crease . Actualy looks much in reality than the acanned pictures. better Should be very attractive framed behind glass ( Please watch the scan for a reliable AS IS scan ) Poster will be sent rolled in a special protective rigid sealed tube.
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: This poster is an ORIGINAL vintage 1986 theatre poster , NOT a reproduction or a reprint  , It holds a life long GUARANTEE for its AUTHENTICITY and ORIGINALITY.
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Shipp worldwide via registered airmail is $ 25 . Poster will be sent rolled in a special protective rigid sealed tube.
Will be sent around 5-10 days after payment .
The Falcon and the Snowman is a 1985 film about two young American men, Christopher Boyce (played by Timothy Hutton) and Daulton Lee (played by Sean Penn), who sold U.S. security secrets to the Soviet Union. The film is based upon the 1979 book The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage by Robert Lindsey, and features the song "This Is Not America", written and performed by David Bowie and the Pat Metheny Group.Plot synopsis The Falcon and the Snowman is based on the true story of former altar boy and former Catholic seminary student Christopher Boyce and fellow former altar boy turned drug dealer Daulton Lee, two young men from wealthy California families who sold classified government information to the Soviet Union during the mid 1970s. Boyce, an expert in the sport of falconry-- thus, the nickname "Falcon"-- gets a job at a civilian defense contractor (TRW, though it is called "RTX" in the movie) working in the so-called "Black Vault", a secure communication facility through which flows information on some of the most classified U.S. operations in the world. Boyce becomes disillusioned with the U.S. government through his new position, especially after reading a misrouted communiqué dealing with the CIA's plan to depose the Prime Minister of Australia. Frustrated by this duplicity, Boyce decides to repay his government by passing classified secrets to the Soviets. Lee, a drug addict and minor smuggler sometimes called "the snowman" (in reference to his cocaine sales), agrees to actually contact and deal with the KGB on Boyce's behalf, motivated not by idealism, but by what he perceives as an opportunity to make money and eventually settle in his idea of paradise, Costa Rica. As the pair become increasingly involved with espionage, Lee's ambition to create a major espionage business coupled with his excessive drug use began alienating the two men from each other, and their Soviet handler becomes increasingly reluctant to deal through Lee as the middleman because of Lee's periods of irrationality. Boyce wants to end the espionage so that he can attend college and meets with Lee's KGB handler to explain the situation. When Lee, desperate to regain the Soviets' regard after realizing that the KGB no longer needs him as a courier now that they have direct contact with Boyce, is observed tossing a note over the fence at the Soviet embassy in Mexico, he is arrested by Mexican police, and a U.S. Foreign Services officer accompanies him to the police station. When the police search his pockets and find film (from a Minox spy camera Boyce used to photograph documents) and a postcard (used by the Soviets to show the haphazard Lee the location of a drop zone), they produce pictures of the same location that was on the postcard, showing officers surrounding a dead man on the street: the Foreign Services officer explains that the Mexican police are trying to implicate him with the murder of a policeman, a charge Lee denies. The police drag away Lee and torture him. Hours later, he reveals finally that he is a Soviet spy... the real reason the police had been ordered to detain him. Told by the Mexican police that he will be deported, Lee is asked to where he should be deported. Lee suggests Costa Rica: the police give him a choice between the Soviet Union and the U.S.A. Lee reluctantly agrees to go back to America and is arrested as he walks across the border. Boyce learns of Lee's arrest and, knowing that he too will soon be captured, releases his pet falcon in a field and then sits down to wait. Moments later, U.S. Marshals and FBI agents surround and capture him. The movie ends with both Lee and Boyce in prisoner jumpsuits and shackles, flanked on either side by officers escorting them to prison. Cast "Christopher Boyce" (Timothy Hutton)  "Daulton Lee" (Sean Penn)  "Mr. Boyce" (Pat Hingle)  "Mrs. Boyce" (Joyce Van Patten)  "Boyce Child" (Rob Reed)  "Dr. Lee" (Richard A. Dysart)  "Mrs. Lee" (Priscilla Pointer)  "David Lee" (Chris Makepeace)  "Gene" (Dorian Harewood)  "Laurie" (Mady Kaplan)  "Larry Rogers" (Macon McCalman)  "Tony Owens" (Jerry Hardin)  "Lana" (Lori Singer)  "Alex" (David Suchet)  *****  John Schlesinger directed this fact-based drama - adapted from Robert Lindsay's bestseller of the same title -- about two Californians, friends since boyhood, who are caught selling government secrets to the Soviet Union. Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton) is an all-American boy, studying for the priesthood in a seminary. But Boyce decides to drop out of school, and with the help of his father (Pat Hingle), a FBI agent, he gets a job working for the CIA in a message-routing center. While reading the messages, Boyce is shocked to learn that the CIA is involved in fixing Australian elections. Watching the Watergate hearings on television, he feels an ever-mounting sense of outrage at the arrogance of the U.S. government and decides to do something about it. Deciding to supply the CIA messages to the Russians, he enlists his childhood friend Daulton Lee (Sean Penn) to help him. Lee is to deliver the CIA secrets to a Russian operative (David Suchet) at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. But Lee is an unreliable drug dealer, and his sloppy spy trail leads the two old friends into more trouble than they bargained for. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide  Cast Timothy Hutton - Christopher Boyce  Sean Penn - Daulton Lee David Suchet - Alex  Lori Singer - Lana  Pat Hingle - Mr. Boyce Dorian Harewood - Gene; Richard Dysart - Dr. Lee; Mady Kaplan - Laurie; Macon McCalman - Larry Rogers; Boris Leskin - Mikhael; George C. Grant - Karpov; Jennifer Runyon - Carole; Joyce Van Patten - Mrs. Boyce; Priscilla Pointer - Mrs. Lee; Chris Makepeace - David Lee; Burke Byrnes - U.S. Customs Agent; Philip Carey - Pan Am Clerk; Anatoly Davydov - Guard; Abel Franco - Interrogator; Jaime Garza - Raul; Stanley Grover - NSA Inspector; Jerry Hardin - Tony Owens; Lara Harris; Betty Lou Henson - Debra; Sam Ingraffia - Kenny Kahn; Michael Ironside - F.B.I. Agent; Raul Martinez - Police Sergeant; Daniel McDonald - Clay; Marvin J. McIntyre - Ike; Tom Nolan - Undercover Cop; Vic Polizos - FBI Interrogator; Nicholas Pryor - Eddie; Guillermo Rios - Drug Dealer; Carlos Romano - Inspector Estevez; Drew Snyder - F.B.I. Interrogator; Karen West - Boyce Child; Valerie Wildman - U.S. Embassy Official; Stephen E. Miller -Newscaster; Bob Nelson - F.B.I. Agent; Bob Arbogast - Guard; George Belanger - U.S. Consul; Martha Campos - Carmen; Arturo Comacho - Boyce Child; Steve Duffy - Barman; Leopoldo Frances - Nigerian Diplomat; James Hardie - Police Interrogator; Annie Kozuch - Boyce Child; Rob Newell - Boyce Child; Rob Reed - Boyce Child; Jeff Seyfried - Pool Man; Arthur Taxier - F.B.I. Agent; Herbie Wallace - Pet Shop Owner  Credit Michael Childers - Associate Producer, Albert Wolsky - Costume Designer, John Schlesinger - Director, Richard Marden - Editor, Lyle Mays - Composer (Music Score), Pat Metheny - Composer (Music Score), David Bowie - Songwriter, Ken Chase - Makeup, James D. Bissell - Production Designer, Allen Daviau - Cinematographer, John Daly - Producer, Gabriel Katzka - Producer, John Schlesinger - Producer, Edward Teets - Producer, Jim Teegarden - Set Designer, Greg Brickman - Stunts, Gilbert Combs - Stunts, Justin Derosa - Stunts, Fred Hice - Stunts, Laura Harris - Stunts, Steven Zaillian - Screenwriter, Michael Dennison - Costumes Supervisor, Robert Lindsey - Book Author  ******* The Falcon and the Snowman is one of those lesser-known films you might see sitting amongst it's peers in a DVD store, biding it's time, serene in it's apparent mediocrity and lack of legacy... just waiting to be discovered. I'd never even heard of this film before, and I probably wouldn't have picked it up if I hadn't seen Ordinary People just prior to it. I was so taken by Timothy Hutton's heartfelt and sincere performance in Ordinary People that I was amazed he wasn't better known now, and then I spotted The Falcon and the Snowman, a film that teamed him with Sean Penn, no less, and I knew it was time to follow up on what Hutton did next. The Falcon and the Snowman is a somewhat subversive political thriller. It's an 80s film that gets away with it's anti-American tone solely due to the fact that it's based on a true story, one of those true stories that are at once both amazing and tragic. Hutton plays Christopher Boyce, a real-life college hotshot who followed in his father's footsteps in working for the American defence department. Once there he discovers some shocking home truths about the CIA and it's role in other country's affairs (most notably the dismissal of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in 1975). Along with his childhood buddy, Daulton Lee (an irresponsible rich kid turned drug dealer, played by Sean Penn), he decides to take matters into his own hands and enters into the Cold War as a freelance agent, selling secrets to the Russians. For Boyce it's an intellectual rebellion - something quite ahead of it's time in the neo-McCarthyist 70s (but altogether more understandable in this polarised post-9/11 world). For Lee, it's about money and staying away from hard, honest work. It's a partnership doomed from the start. Directed by John Schlesinger (Marathon Man, Midnight Cowboy), the film benefits from an un-American eye. What could've been a heavily-biased, pro-American tale of treachery is handled evenly and with as much objectivity as possible. Schlesinger is keen to highlight the flaws that saw Boyce and Lee fall from grace, and to show Boyce's initially admirable motivations. Above all, Schlesinger is also mindful of history and the film has subsequently dated very little (unlike most other Cold War thrillers) thanks to his neutral treatment of the story's more political aspects. The Falcon's and the Snowman's dramatisation of real-life events is more reminiscent of contemporary films like Blow or Donnie Brasco, as opposed to made-for-TV slop like Not Without My Daughter. The real reason to watch this film is probably for the amazing performances of Penn and Hutton. A lot of other reviews I've read on this film are keen to point out Penn's early promise of talent here, with his sympathetic, jittery portrayal of a greedy and weak-willed character. I won't say Penn isn't good, but for me the real star is Hutton. Hutton's performance shows a maturity beyond his years, he has a screen presence and honest intensity that a lot of older actors seldom match. It's an extremely confident performance, and it speaks volumes about Hutton's interesting integrity that he chose to do films like this rather than walk the Tom Cruise-esque path of teen idolism and big budget blockbusters (which he could've easily done). Hutton still pops up in a few films here and there these days but I hope he makes a genuine big-scale comeback soon - few other actors deserve it as much as he does. A really decent film that's worthy of your time.   ebay239