A Question of Attribution

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Summary:
James Fox stars as real-life British turncoat Anthony Blunt in A Question of Attribution. A highly respected art expert (he was Queen Elizabeth's personal art advisor), Blunt was also intimately involved in the Burgess-Maclean-Philby spy scandal of the 1950s. According to this 1992 adaptation of Alan Bennett's play, Blunt tipped his hand while restoring one of his precious Ti... Full Summary >>

Cast:
James Fox - (Sir Anthony Blunt)
Geoffrey Palmer - (Donleavy)
David Calder - (Chubb)
Edward de Souza - (Collins)
Jason Flemyng - (Colin)
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Review:
Like a fraudulent painting feigning authenticity, Queen Elizabeth's curator of art in the 1970s wears a mantle of respectability cloaking his role as a traitor in the 1950s. Does the Queen know her learned advisor is a former Soviet spy? That is one of the questions this 1992 film explores as it recounts the outcome of the notorious Burgess-Philby-... Continue >>

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