- Creator Backlash: Jerry Goldsmith was never a fan of the score he composed for the film. He increased the amount of music he composed for the film in response to fans believing that his soundtrack albums were too short, but Goldsmith made the score longer to an extent that he ended up getting bored with it.
- Dawson Casting: In the book Barley is in his mid-forties at most. Sean Connery was fifty nine when the film was made.
- Fake Russian: The Austrian Klaus Maria Brandauer as Yakov Saveleyev, and American Michelle Pfeiffer as Katya Orlova.
- Real-Life Relative: John le Carré's sister Charlotte Cornwell plays a character in the movie named Charlotte.
- Those Two Actors: Sean Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer had appeared together in Never Say Never Again.
- What Could Have Been: Mike Nichols was set to direct the movie at one point.
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