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Actor: Rupert Penry-Jones, Samuel West, Stuart Laing, Toby Stephens, Tom HollanderBrand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 240 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-12-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Video
DVD Reviews of Cambridge Spies
DVD Review: cambridge spies
Summary: 1 Stars
I am very upset because you sent me a dvd I cannot even use, when inserted into the dvd playe3r it just says wrong region You never asked me what region I wanted and now I sit with an expensive item I cant use.DVD Review: Well done!
Summary: 5 Stars
This historically accurate portrayal is really well done. Interesting character development and terrific acting. Good insight into recent history. Very moving and tragic as well.DVD 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.DVD Review: ESPIONAGE, YET HISTORICAL
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a fan of British movies, especially BBC's period movies. This is a historical movie, that exposed the "spying" of these Cambridge students, without England's and USA's knowing, until the harm was done. Very good actors, Toby, Tom, Rupert and Samuel. I recommend this movie to those who loves a little suspense and some comedy. College life in Cambridge at that time was exposed too. I just love to watch British movies, incomparable to American (typically brutal, mind boggling, & senseless movies).DVD Review: Spytime
Summary: 5 Stars
Philby, Burgess, MacLean, Blunt.
The four names associated with one of the most embarrassing episodes in Western politics. Moles burrowed deeply within the political mechanisms of Great Britain and the British Secret Service.
This BBC mini-series dramatization captures the life and times of the spies through the 1930s to the Cold War. The tone is sympathetic - idealists waging war against fascism, but get snarled the web of a bigger game - but the programs capture the period and oftentimes strange political alliances that swirled as Europe dragged itself into what became a global war.
Actors Toby Stephens (Philby), Samuel West (Blunt), Rupert Penry-Jones (MacLean) and Tom Hollander (Burgess) provide outstanding portrayals of their characters. The vast 240 minutes spanning two discs include a documentary that aired on the History Channel which covers the foursome as traitors, hence there is some balance within a historical - not entertainment - context.
Whether viewed as villains or products of a shadowy period driven by perceptions of good versus evil, this is a fascinating gaze into the rise and fall of the secret servants.
Description 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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