Traitor (1971)
59m
Running Time
October 14, 1971Release Date
Traitor (1971)
59m
Running Time
October 14, 1971Release Date
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Plot.
Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the USSR. Harris believes in both Communism and Englishness, believing himself to have betrayed his class, but not his country. The press find these beliefs incompatible, and want to find out why he became a ‘traitor’. Harris is plagued by anxieties over both his actions and his upper-class childhood, and drinks to a state of collapse
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Cast & Crew.
John Le Mesurier
Jack Hedley
James
Diana Fairfax
Lady Emma
Vincent Ball
Simpson
Jon Laurimore
Thomas
Neil McCallum
Blake
Lyndon Brook
Sir Arthur Harris
Richard Marner
Michaelov
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"Traitor" is the first episode of second season of the British BBC anthology TV series Play for Today. The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 14 October 1971. "Traitor" was written by Dennis Potter, directed by Alan Bridges, produced by Graeme MacDonald, and starred John Le Mesurier as Adrian Harris, a character loosely based on Kim Philby. Le Mesurier's performance won him the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1972.
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