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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Please bring it back on DVD,
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This review is from: Englishman Abroad [VHS] [1983] (VHS Tape)
One of the great tele-movies ever. Browne and Bates are rivetting. This is great stuff - this really happened to Coral Browne; she told Alan Bennet about it; who then wrote it and the Coral Browne got to play herself. The whole thing has a remarkable ring of truth. For everyone who watched Cambridge Spies, this is the essential follow-up. This is sad and funny. Coral Browne has some wonderful actressy line. Browne to a snooty Bond Street outfitter: "You had no trouble supplying him when he was the most notorious bugger in London!" I watched this the other night after Cambridge Spies finished. Unfortunately I only have a Very Hazy Screen (VHS) copy. Let's have it on DVD - now!
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Exceptional,
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This review is from: Englishman Abroad [VHS] [1983] (VHS Tape)
As far as I am aware this was a BBC made for television movie.It captures the time and place of a world in the grip of the cold war and the idealogical absurdities that found Guy Burgess living or more to the point existing in Moscow after his defection. Life in Russia is cold as you would expect but not just atmospherically as after a chance meeting with Coral Browne Guy sends her back to London on a mission to pick up some of his dearly missed home comforts including tailor made clothes and shoes much to the chagrin of the tailors and shoemakers who ignored his penchant for young men but are not impressed with his defection. I can't begin to describe the warmth and humour displayed in this classic movie by John Schlesinger and it's long overdue for release on DVD or at least on video. Gilbert and Sullivan's "he is an Englishman" from HMS Pinafore being played at the end as Mr Burgess saunters across the pedestrian bridge during Winter has stayed with me for over twenty years.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
DVD! DVD! Bring it back on DVD, *please*!,
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This review is from: Englishman Abroad [VHS] [1983] (VHS Tape)
I'll simply add my voice to others' here - bring this wonderful gem back in DVD! It's long overdue!
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