Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.
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"I'm surprised there are no other comments about this TV movie even though it was made 30 years ago. The story, considerably expanded and updated, appeared in the mini-series "Cambridge Spies" in 2003, but this version was a powerful piece of television with plenty of drama and fine performances from Derek Jacobi as the flamboyant Guy Burgess, Anthony Bate as the close-mouthed Kim Philby and Michael Culver as the neurotic Mclean. The key element is: why did these sons from "good" families go over to the Soviets in the 1930s and stay there? As Sir Steward Menzies head ..."
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This television movie tells the true story of the "Cambridge spies", but there was something that the filmmakers did not know when it was made. There was a fourth Cambridge spy, the art historian Sir Anthony Blunt, who was publicly exposed two years after this movie was first televised.
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Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.