7.4 /10 1 Votes
6.5/10 No. of episodes 12 Number of seasons 1 | 8.3/10 Screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin First episode date 5 September 1983 Number of episodes 12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Based on Ace of Spies by Robin Bruce Lockhart Directed by Martin Campbell
Jim Goddard Starring Sam Neill
Jeananne Crowley
Leo McKern
Tom Bell
Kenneth Cranham
Norman Rodway Theme music composer Harry Rabinowitz
Dmitri Shostakovich (main theme) Networks BBC, ITV, PBS, Thames Television Awards British Academy Television Craft Award for Film Editor Cast Sam Neill, Leo McKern, Michael Bryant Similar Peaky Blinders, Upstairs - Downstairs, The Duchess of Duke Stre, Houdini, Edge of Darkness |
Reilly ace of spies episode 01 1901 an affair with a married woman
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.
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- Reilly ace of spies episode 01 1901 an affair with a married woman
- Reilly ace of spies theme
- Episodes
- Cast
- Awards
- Home media
- References
The mini series is written by Troy Kennedy Martin, and based on the 1967 book Ace of Spies by Robin Bruce Lockhart, whose father R. H. Bruce Lockhart was one of Reilly's fellow spies. Sam Neill stars as the title character. The theme music is the Romance movement from Dmitri Shostakovich’s The Gadfly Suite.
Reilly ace of spies theme
Episodes
There are twelve episodes, each approximately 50 minutes in length (the first episode is near 80 minutes).
Cast
Awards
Won 1984 BAFTA TV Award
Best Film Editors:
Home media
The series was issued on DVD by A&E Home Video on 22 February 2005.