YMMV / Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)

• Genius Bonus: At the beginning of the film, Control signs a document simply as "C" in green ink. This was a noted quirk of Captain Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming^note Another quirk was that he liked to suddenly stab himself in the left leg to shock people who didn't know that he wore a prosthetic, the first chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, that has been taken up by each of his successors (who also take on "C" as a moniker when in the role^note Also, this is why the head of MI-6 in the James Bond franchise is known as "M") and the film's oblique acknowledgement that the Circus is really MI-6, something John le Carré always danced around.