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Traitor (1971)

★ 8.3/10 59 min Drama, TV Movie United Kingdom English
Director: Alan Bridges
Writer: Dennis Potter
Script Editor: Ann Scott
Streaming: Not available

Description

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

Top Cast

John Le Mesurier
John Le Mesurier Adrian Harris
Jack Hedley
Jack Hedley James
Diana Fairfax
Diana Fairfax Lady Emma
Jon Laurimore Thomas
Lyndon Brook
Lyndon Brook Sir Arthur Harris
Richard Marner
Richard Marner Michaelov
Terence Bayler
Terence Bayler Duty Clerk

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