GALLERY: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong & Others Attend the LA Premiere of TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY

Last night, Tuesday, December 6th was the Los Angeles Premiere of TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY at the Cinerama Dome at The ArcLight in Hollywood. Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, David Dencik, director Tomas Alfredson, screenwriter Peter Straughan, producer Robyn Slovo and notable guests were in attendance.

Through a love affair with the wife of a Moscow Centre intelligence officer, British agent Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) discovers that there may be a high-ranking Soviet mole within the Circus. Tarr alerts Oliver Lacon, the Civil Service officer responsible for the Intelligence Services, and Lacon enlists Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his mentor, retired agent George Smiley (Gary Oldman), to investigate. Smiley and Guillam must investigate without the knowledge of Circus leadership, which is headed by Percy Alleline and his deputies Bill Haydon, Roy Bland, and Toby Esterhase, as any of these could be the mole.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, scheduled for US theatrical release on December 9th, 2011, is directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In) and stars Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Toby Jones, Ciarán Hinds, Stephen Graham, Simon McBurney and Christian McKay. The title comes from the names Control (the Circus Chief) assigns to various senior intelligence officers under suspicion of being a Soviet mole. The code names "Tinker", "Tailor", "Soldier", "Poorman" and "Beggarman" are derived from the English children's rhyme "Tinker, Tailor".