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A Perfect Spy [1987]

Starring: Peter Egan, Ray McAnally, Alan Howard, Rüdiger Weigang, Jane Booker
Director: Peter Smith
Format: HiFi Sound PAL
Released: 12 Apr 1999
RRP: £19.99
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Great, substantial piece of TV drama - By: P. KINCAID, 14 Sep 2000
I only leave off the fifth star because this is ultimately less satisfying than the previous LeCarre adaptations by the BBC. But it is still a towering achievement, especiallly when compared to the glossy but hollow dramas which which we must make do with nowadays. This is a powerful tale, almost Tolstoyan in its ambition: epic & intimate, specific & universal. My only qualm is over the aging of the actors: I suppose it always difficult to cast a story which follows a set of characters over several decades, but I do not feel that they solved it very well here. Some characters seem ageless, others prematurely aged. It's a smalll quibble, but a quibble none the less. TV is so much better a medium than film for adaptations of demanding fiction of this type that one wonders why it hasn't been exploited more often: Grahame Greene's work, for instance, would benefit from the treatment.