Glorious 39
The story revolves around the formidable Keyes family, who are keen to uphold and preserve their very traditional way of life. The eldest sibling Anne is a budding young actress who is in love with Foreign Office official Lawrence, but her seemingly perfect life begins to dramatically unravel when.
12 December 1949, Caterham, Surrey, England, UK
6 January 1982, London, England, UK
1972, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
16 July 1939, Marylebone, London, England, UK
1 December 1961, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
15 December 1982, London, England, UK
1958
12 August 1984, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
6 August 1982, Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
21 July 1989, London, England, UK
18 April 1971, Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, UK
27 June 1921, Leigh, England, UK
20 December 1952, Taunton, Somerset, England, UK
10 November 1963, Paddington, London, England, UK
27 May 1922, Belgravia, London, England, UK
28 July 1980
November 20, 2009
A ripping, old-school conspiracy thriller.
February 14, 2011
Despite a few convincing turns, the feature is disappointingly winded, eventually going off on a few needless tangents that derail the whole production.
November 20, 2009
Stupendous turn from Romola Garai in the lead role but, while this sets up intrigue and atmosphere well, the plot devices creak audibly towards the end.
November 20, 2009
A bizarrely tasteless pet-euthanasia subplot -- clumsy parallels with the Holocaust abound -- is merely the wackiest turn the wildly unconvincing script takes: it's well below Poliakoff's more intelligent TV work.
November 20, 2009
Poliakoff's flaccid script and indulgent cut undermines a beautifully shot thriller with an excellent cast and original central idea.
November 20, 2009
A political yarn - sometimes creepy, sometimes daft - in the Hitchcockian vein.
November 27, 2009
An enjoyable conspiracy thriller in the manner of John Frankenheimer's Seven Days in May.
November 20, 2009
For all its sumptuous production design, Steven Poliakoff's tale of glamorous toffs and treason is so laboured and slow that it's practically pensionable.
November 20, 2009
Unfortunately, Stephen Poliakoff's tale of wartime skulduggery should have stayed on paper. The sort you can flush. Tedious, overlong and laughably unconvincing, the only remarkable thing about it is Bill Nighy's performance. Specifically, how bad it is.
November 27, 2009
Prestigious and serious-minded, but it's still nonsense.
November 20, 2009
Trapped in a perilous zone between TV and cinema, this wartime conspiracy thriller ploughs through an improbable plot with all the urgency of a snail going through wet concrete.
November 27, 2009
Not glorious. Not good. Just plain old-fashioned duff.
