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Cambridge Spies

Review by James Anthony


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Four of the most infamous spies in history were chaps from Cambridge who betrayed their country and the West to the Soviet Union.

Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt were top students who went on to high-ranking positions in various British organisations - such as MI5, the Foreign Office, MI6 - before being found out.

Cambridge Spies takes a very non-judgemental view of the chaps and ignores the numbers of deaths their treachery resulted in, but it is an entertainingly superficial yarn.

The four leads - Tom Hollander, Samuel West, Rupert Perry-Jones and Toby Stephens - are excellent and present amiable faces to some obviously complex characters.

The production values are magnificent, although some scenes such as the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War are decidely under-extra-ed.

Still, the video transfer is pretty good, although it does lose marks for some aliasing. The sound is clear and the dialogue clean.

An enjoyable, if too-fictional, tale.

Conclusion: 80% Extras: 60%.

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