Cambridge Spies

Cambridge Spies

Cambridge Spies
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Actor: Rupert Penry-Jones, Samuel West, Stuart Laing, Toby Stephens, Tom Hollander
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 240 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-12-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Video

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Movie Review: Disappointed in Cambridge Spies
Summary: 1 Stars

Being a fan of many British series and shows, I thought I would enjoy Cambridge Spies. Alas, I find very little, well actually nothing, positive to say of this movie. I didn't even finish watching it which has only happened to me twice in my lifetime. The plot did not flow well, the movie focused more on the sexual exploits of the characters than their spying activities. The motivation and other world events that were going on at the time were not mentioned or aligned with the events of the spies. Disappointed in this movie, and I do not recommend it. Rielly Ace of Spies was so much better than this movie.

Summary of Cambridge Spies

In 1934, four brilliant young men at Cambridge University are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice, a talent for lying and a hatred for fascism, the four take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. Starring four of Britain's most talented young actors, this epic yet intimate drama brings one of the twentieth century's most compelling true stories to exciting new life.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Documentary:45 minute documentary "Great Spy Stories of the Twentieth Century: The Cambridge Spies"
Featurette:"A Cambridge Spies Historical Scrapbook" - a collection of rare interviews, news clips and other footage featuring the real Cambridge Spies.
Other:Trailers


This moody BBC 2003 dramatization of the most notorious debacle in the history of the British Secret Service raises the specter of the treachery of Philby, Burgess, MacLean, and Blunt for a generation of viewers who can only imagine the shockwaves generated by their duplicity. Inevitably the story suffers from the basically repellent quality of its raw material. Determinedly nonjudgmental, it frequently stumbles along a precarious path between romantic eulogy and fact-based fable of the perils of idealism. For all the handsome casting, the characters have little charm to compensate for their deeds. Their motivations are sketched only vaguely. Even in moments of personal vulnerability, however poignant the performances, sympathy is at a premium. But it has its high points as an atmospheric soap opera: the recreation of a period that stretches from the radical aspects of 1930s university life at Cambridge to cold war London, dipping into the Spanish Civil War and the Washington diplomatic circle en route, is vivid. The acting, too, is fine. Tom Hollander's rampantly dissolute Burgess verges constantly on parody. But Toby Stephens (Philby), Samuel West (a frosty Blunt), and Rupert Penry-Jones (an emotionally wrung-out MacLean) work wonders with Peter Moffat's insubstantial script. --Piers Ford

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