Anthony Blunt is an eminent Cambridge-educated art historian who is also working as a spy for the Soviet Union. In love with double agent Guy Burgess, he helps Burgess get yet another treasonous British agent to safety in Moscow. When Burgess unexpectedly defects as well, the government becomes suspicious of Blunt, but investigators have trouble believing such a refined and aristocratic gentleman would ever betray his nation and his class.
Acting
Hopkins devouring scenery as flamboyant, tragic Burgess.
Writing
Tight 90-minute collapse of a double life.
Director
John Glenister
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ian Richardson had played Blunt before in 1977's 'The Cambridge Spies'—this was his second betrayal.
Released four years before Blunt's public 1979 exposure, the film predicted how Britain would struggle to reconcile his cultural stature with treason.
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