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An Englishman Abroad [VHS] [1983]
 
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An Englishman Abroad [VHS] [1983]

VHS ~ Alan Bates
5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Alan Bates, Coral Browne, Charles Gray, Harold Innocent, Vernon Dobtcheff
  • Directors: John Schlesinger
  • Format: HiFi Sound, PAL
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • Run Time: 61 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00008T6NH
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 976 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Synopsis
Alan Bennett's recreation of actress Coral Browne's amazing encounter with former spy Guy Burgess while she was on tour with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Moscow during 1958.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Please bring it back on DVD, 8 Jul 2003
By Robert Ray (Sassafras, Victoria Australia) - See all my reviews
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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!
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional, 10 May 2003
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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.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars DVD! DVD! Bring it back on DVD, *please*!, 20 Jun 2005
By Anne-Elisabeth Moutet (Paris, France) - See all my reviews
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I'll simply add my voice to others' here - bring this wonderful gem back in DVD! It's long overdue!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bring it out on DVD
Just adding my vote and request to the rest. I seem to remember thinking it was very good, which is probably
an understatement having read the other reviews.
Published 4 months ago by Secret Squirrel

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best of Alan Bennett's works, and Alan Bates and Coral Browne are just as good
"How can he be a spy?" says Guy Burgess in Moscow, as he quotes the attitude of his former fellow British upper-class diplomats, "He goes to my tailor. Read more
Published 20 months ago by C. O. DeRiemer

5.0 out of 5 stars A forgotten classic
I use the word 'forgotten', because this magnificient play is yet another title in the BBC's back catalogue that still languishes on VHS, currently unavailable, and doesn't appear... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Green Knight

5.0 out of 5 stars Where is the DVD?!!!!
Why oh why hasn't the BBC released a single disc with a double bill of this wonderful film and its companion piece 'A Question of Attribution? Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2007 by D. Fleming

5.0 out of 5 stars Very sensitive
Coral Browne encounters Guy Burgess when touring Moscow with a Shakespeare company. Very very well done. Funny, and a tear-jerker at the same time. Read more
Published on 17 Aug 2005

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