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COLD WAR: Connections in " THE COURIER" Dominic Cooke's drama, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Merab Ninidze, lacks the emotional and moral punch of a truly great spy movie. 2 men walk down a street at night. One of them says, " I've dreamed of this moment for a very long time." The other man says, " What happens now? I don't need to do anything, do I?" On a later occasion, in a hotel room, we see them draw close, learning into a murmur in each other's ear. It must be love. Not so fast. These scenes come from Dominic Cooke's "The Courier," which is set in the early 1960s and is based on true and hazardous happenings of the period. The 1st man is Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze). He runs the state committee for the scientific research in the Soviet Union and is so alarmed by the speed of the arms race that he offers--for the sake of peace, not for personal gain--to pass Russian nuclear secrets to the West. The other man is Greville Wyanne (Benedict Cumberbatch), a less distinguished soul. He is an Englishman, a salesman, and, in terms of espionage, a rube. He has a wife, a son, a trilby, a waist-length sheepskin coat, and a mustache that is presumably meant to make him look sprightly and debonair, like David Niven. it fails.