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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Good acting in small drama
Every actor in the movie is perfectly suited to their character, and you can't day that about every movie you see.
Rupert is in love with a ray of sunshine in the human form of Cary Elwes, and Colin is screaming for the revolution to begin. The movie is about them, what living in England at the time would have been like, and what living in a boys school was like also.
The boys seem to accept Rupert because it is widely assumed that he will grow out of it. When he declares it as a way of life, his unhappiness begins. He is able to be friends with Colin Firth because they are both outcasts in their way ("The Commie and the queer" is how he describes them at one point").
The movie is very enjoyable and it is worth a look. You've spent ninety minutes doing stupider things than watching this.
Rupert is in love with a ray of sunshine in the human form of Cary Elwes, and Colin is screaming for the revolution to begin. The movie is about them, what living in England at the time would have been like, and what living in a boys school was like also.
The boys seem to accept Rupert because it is widely assumed that he will grow out of it. When he declares it as a way of life, his unhappiness begins. He is able to be friends with Colin Firth because they are both outcasts in their way ("The Commie and the queer" is how he describes them at one point").
The movie is very enjoyable and it is worth a look. You've spent ninety minutes doing stupider things than watching this.
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