Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.
- Nominated for 3 BAFTA Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations total
Jeffry Wickham
- Arthur
- (as Jeffrey Wickham)
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- TriviaLoosely based on the early life of Guy Burgess, a key figure in the Cambridge Five spy ring of the 1930s and 1940s, who eventually defected to Russia in 1951. Even the manner of "Guy Bennett"'s father's death, as he discloses it to Harcourt, is the same as Burgess's father. Even so, the closing credits make the standard declaration, "The events, characters and firms depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual firms is purely coincidental."
- GoofsIn Moscow, 1983, elderly Guy Bennett claims to be "the last of the few", two of the real Cambridge spies (Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt) having died in that very year. In fact, the real-life model for Bennett, Guy Burgess, was the earliest of the group to die, twenty years earlier in 1963. Neither would he have been the last of the Cambridge spies still alive, since Kim Philby lived on to 1988, and John Cairncross until 1995.
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Fowler: I have half a mind to ask Barclay for permission to beat you!
Tommy Judd: Well, you've half a mind. We can all agree on that.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Celluloid Closet (1995)
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Truly brilliant, although quintessentially English
I was living in France when this film was first released. I had seen the stage play and thoroughly enjoyed it. The film was so good I actually saw it twice over it's opening weekend.
The bulk of the action is set in an English boarding school in the 1930s. This is marvelously portrayed - school bullies, inter house rivalries, the cadet force, cricket - and there is some marvelous interaction between Rupert Everett and Colin Firth. The latter's impassioned defence of Stalin is understated comedy at its finest.
This is a film of great subtlety and beauty, well acted, and underpinned by a haunting soundtrack.
The bulk of the action is set in an English boarding school in the 1930s. This is marvelously portrayed - school bullies, inter house rivalries, the cadet force, cricket - and there is some marvelous interaction between Rupert Everett and Colin Firth. The latter's impassioned defence of Stalin is understated comedy at its finest.
This is a film of great subtlety and beauty, well acted, and underpinned by a haunting soundtrack.
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