#cambridge five

[troublewithangels]

whateverrrrrr 😔↔️😔↔️

[isavedyouthewaltz]

Rupert Everett and Colin Firth in Another Country (1984) dir. Marek Kanievska

[anthropologistfromentropy]

Huh, one of the Cambridge Five used the codename Homer?? That's so Henry Winter coded, I gotta use that.

Henry 'I LOVE Homer' Winter

[victusinveritas]

Not a repeat from 1951.

[maysshortmoviereviews]

A Spy Among Friends (2022)

🎬In England in 1963, Nicholas Elliott works for MI6 as an intelligence officer but is left in turmoil when he learns his close friend and colleague, Kim Philby, had been secretly working as a double agent for the KGB, defecting to the Soviet Union.

📝A perfectly executed series that will have to you engaged from the beginning til the very end. Beautifully shot, acted and directed. Loved Guy Pearce but especially Damian Lewis who is just exceptional (as he normally is) in this show. He is so versatile. If you love your spy stories (this is based on Ben Macintyre's book of the same name) then you have to watch it.

It's just brilliant. I binge watched it in two days :-) Damian Lewis is taking a break from acting. We wish him a good time off and all the best and we hope he will return when he feels ready.

[addawithbalmiki]

you all want gay representation but you don’t even read about the historical gays who were chaotic and tragic and a hundred times more interesting than those one dimensional characters being written about nowadays. go and read about the cambridge five 

[flammentanz]

“He is quite generous with his lips, I have to say.” (Ian Richardson about playing this scene)

Ian Richardson as Anthony Blunt and Anthony Hopkins as Guy Burgess in “The Fourth Man” 

[j-august]

Some of the Centre's most successful deception operations were those it unconsciously practised against itself. The Cambridge Five (Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross), later acknowledged as probably the ablest group of foreign agents in KGB history, aroused deep suspicion by failing to provide any evidence of the non-existent British intelligence operations against the Soviet Union which Stalin and the Centre had convinced themselves must be taking place.  Neither Kim Philby in SIS nor Anthony Blunt in MI5 identified 'a single valuable British agent either in the USSR or in the Soviet embassy in Britain'. The Centre did not consider for one moment the possibility that there were no British agents operating against the Soviet Union for Philby and Blunt to identify.

Christopher Andrew, The Secret World