Reilly, Ace of Spies
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| Reilly, Ace of Spies | |
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 Sam Neill portraying Sidney Reilly in the television mini-series, Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983) |
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| Running time | 720 min |
| Written by | Troy Kennedy Martin, Robin Bruce Lockhart (book) |
| Directed by | Martin Campbell, Jim Goddard |
| Produced by | Chris Burt, Johnny Goodman, Verity Lambert |
| Starring | Sam Neill, Sebastian Shaw, Hugh Fraser, John Rhys-Davies, David Suchet |
| Music by | Harry Rabinowitz, Dmitri Shostakovich (main theme) |
| Original channel | Euston Films, Thames Television  Home Box Office Home VideoIndependent Television Mystery! Public Broadcasting Service  Thames Video Collection Thorn EMI Video Australia Umbrella Entertainment (DVD) |
| Release date(s) | 5 September 1983 12 July 1985 |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| IMDb profile | |
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries, written by Troy Kennedy Martin, and based on the 1967 book Ace of Spies by Robin Bruce Lockhart. Sam Neill stars as Sidney Reilly. The theme music is the Romance movement from Dmitri Shostakovich’s The Gadfly Suite.
The miniseries was issued on DVD by A&E Home Video on February 22, 2005. As of Summer/Autumn 2007 it is being shown on the ITV3 Channel available on Freeview in the UK.
There are twelve approximately 50 minute episodes (the first episode is lengthier).
Contents |
[edit] Episodes
| Episode # | Title | Original Airdate | Setting |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An Affair with a Married Woman | September 5, 1983 | 1896-1901 |
| 2 | Prelude to War | September 7, 1983 | 1904-1905 |
| 3 | The Visiting Fireman | September 14, 1983 | 1909 |
| 4 | Anna | September 21, 1983 | WWI |
| 5 | Dreadnoughts and Crosses | September 28, 1983 | WWI |
| 6 | Dreadnoughts and Doublecrosses | October 5, 1983 | WWI |
| 7 | Gambit | October 12, 1983 | 1917 |
| 8 | Endgame | October 19, 1983 | 1918 |
| 9 | After Moscow | October 26, 1983 | 1918 |
| 10 | The Trust | November 2, 1983 | 1924 |
| 11 | The Last Journey | November 9, 1983 | 1925 |
| 12 | Shutdown | November 16, 1983 | 1925 |
[edit] Cast
- Sam Neill as Sidney Reilly
- Peter Egan as Major Charles Fothergill
- Ian Charleson as R. H. Bruce Lockhart (note: R. H. Bruce Lockhart was the father of the author of the book the miniseries is based on)
- Norman Rodway as Captain Mansfield Smith-Cumming
- Tom Bell as Felix Dzerzhinsky
- David Burke as Joseph Stalin
- Kenneth Cranham as Vladimir Lenin
- Leo McKern as Basil Zaharoff
- Jeananne Crowley as Margaret Callaghan Reilly (wife number one)
- Donald Morley as Stanley Baldwin
- John Castle as Count Massino
- Celia Gregory as Nadina "Nadia" Massino (wife number two)
- Brian Protheroe as Shasha Grammaticoff
- Joanne Whalley as Ulla Glass
- Clive Merrison as Boris Savinkov
- Laura Davenport as Nelly "Pepita" Burton (wife number three)
- Michael Aldridge as Orlov
- Victoria Harwood as Natalia
- Anthony Higgins as Mikhail Trilisser
- John Rhys-Davies as Tanyatos
- Sebastian Shaw as Reverend Thomas
[edit] Awards
Won 1984 BAFTA TV Award
Best Film Editor:
- Ralph Sheldon
- Edward Marnier
