tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886873752592831806.post8116393635456784496..comments2023-11-02T03:42:39.879-07:00Comments on The Spy Wise Blog: The Spy Wise Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05775684307972015116noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886873752592831806.post-50960879770764285802009-11-04T04:35:06.550-08:002009-11-04T04:35:06.550-08:00This secret town stuff goes back to Boris Morros. ...This secret town stuff goes back to Boris Morros. A movie based on his experiences in the 1940's updated the action to the 1950's Cold War and starred Ernest Borgnine. It was called "Man on a String". If you go to TCM, you can watch clips. There were no doubt others I haven't heard of - just like your TV show.<br /><br />So far as the prisoner goes, all these notions were ten-a-penny by 1966. Gary Powers was reported as being held in some kind of safe house. One of the last episodes of McGoohan's Danger Man has John Drake in a *safe hotel* being watched on monitors by Joan Greenwood as the hotel Madame. Nobody needed to read books to have these ideas by 1966, thy were part of the zeitgeist of the day.Moor Larkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05275057917684784541noreply@blogger.com