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Ring of Spies

  • 1964
  • 1 h 30 min
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Ring of Spies (1964)
During the Cold War, a RN warrant officer stationed in the British Embassy in Warsaw leaks secrets to his Polish girlfriend who's a Soviet agent and after his transfer to a naval station in Britain he joins a Soviet spy ring.
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Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaDuring the Cold War, a RN warrant officer stationed in the British Embassy in Warsaw leaks secrets to his Polish girlfriend who's a Soviet agent and after his transfer to a naval station in ... Ler tudoDuring the Cold War, a RN warrant officer stationed in the British Embassy in Warsaw leaks secrets to his Polish girlfriend who's a Soviet agent and after his transfer to a naval station in Britain he joins a Soviet spy ring.During the Cold War, a RN warrant officer stationed in the British Embassy in Warsaw leaks secrets to his Polish girlfriend who's a Soviet agent and after his transfer to a naval station in Britain he joins a Soviet spy ring.

  • Direção
    • Robert Tronson
  • Roteiristas
    • Frank Launder
    • Peter Barnes
  • Artistas
    • Bernard Lee
    • William Sylvester
    • Margaret Tyzack
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  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    6,5/10
    531
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    • Direção
      • Robert Tronson
    • Roteiristas
      • Frank Launder
      • Peter Barnes
    • Artistas
      • Bernard Lee
      • William Sylvester
      • Margaret Tyzack
    • 18Avaliações de usuários
    • 4Avaliações da crítica
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
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    Bernard Lee
    Bernard Lee
    • Henry Houghton
    William Sylvester
    William Sylvester
    • Gordon Lonsdale
    Margaret Tyzack
    Margaret Tyzack
    • Elizabeth Gee
    David Kossoff
    David Kossoff
    • Peter Kroger
    Thorley Walters
    Thorley Walters
    • Cmdr. Winters
    Nancy Nevinson
    Nancy Nevinson
    • Helen Kroger
    Derek Francis
    • Chief Supt. Croft
    Hector Ross
    • Supt. Woods
    George Pravda
    George Pravda
    • Russian Agent
    Patrick Barr
    Patrick Barr
    • Captain Warner
    Justine Lord
    Justine Lord
    • Christina
    Gillian Lewis
    • Marjorie Shaw
    Newton Blick
    • P.O. Meadows
    Philip Latham
    Philip Latham
    • Captain Ray
    Cyril Chamberlain
    • Anderson
    Edwin Apps
    Edwin Apps
    • Blake
    • (não creditado)
    Jack Armstrong
    • Man in Monitoring Room
    • (não creditado)
    Demeter Bitenc
    Demeter Bitenc
      • Direção
        • Robert Tronson
      • Roteiristas
        • Frank Launder
        • Peter Barnes
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      10rxelex

      Really interesting slice of life film!

      This film is well worth watching as it illustrates perfectly how the poorly paid British in secret organisations were and probably still are susceptible to turning spies for a few hundred pounds.

      The two spies had combined wages of about £30 which was not much above poverty level.

      Street and car scenes are very nicely done and show how basic UK cars were and how everything was still dirty and sooty from all the steam trains and inefficient engines.

      Old Bernard Lee is poorly cast as a romantic lead.
      8wilsonstuart-32346

      The Spies of Ruislip

      No need to repeat the background to the actual case that inspired this excellent spy thriller. Compared to the ludicrous heroics and wild SFX of Bond, Bourne or Mission Impossible, Ring Of Spies seems like a different planet. But this was an era when the West faced a different sort of opponent (even if the the three threat was exaggerated to one degree or another). Security breaches had occurred before Portland, and would feature again afterwards, but never had the shadow of the enemy spy felt so close to suburbia and the Home Counties. Although long forgotten now, perhaps only Profumo overtook Portland in terms of (the then) public conscious.

      The cast are uniformly good, a real effort is made to dig out (but not condone) Bernard Lee's cash strapped wheeler dealer clerk, and his infatuated spinster girlfriend. William Slyvester excels as the smooth talking professional operating under a Soviet 'legend'. The action takes place in rustic pubs, cafes, drab offices and snack bars - there's no glamour or gadgets in this slow burner, Cold War thriller.
      6shakercoola

      Light on thrills but with interesting machinations

      A British spy thriller; A story about a British navy clerk assigned to a top secret research facility where he is blackmailed into stealing vital secrets in exchange for cash. A film set during the height of the Cold War and based on true events of the Portland Spy Ring, where daily duels play out between Soviet intelligence and British counter-espionage. Tension is undermined by a docudrama style, though the playout of the espionage activities is absorbing. Bernard Lee performs well, but his character is not sympathetic, and his cohort, played by Margaret Tyzack, is also drawn to things venal without much struggle, so it ends up being a drawn-out morality tale.
      8VanheesBenoit

      The "infamous five" (Portland Spy Ring case)

      "Ring of spies" is a sober but faithful reconstruction in documentary style of the events surrounding the British "Portland Spy Ring". On January 7th 1961, 5 people were arrested in London in connection with espionage activities in the Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment in Portland. It was the first major success against a spy network in the UK. It also remains a case which is still today shrouded in a lot of mystery.

      Spider in the Portland web was Konon T. Molody, who took the alias of "Gordon Lonsdale". As a facade, this Russian spy posed as a Canadian businessman, renting jukeboxes, bubblegum and gambling machines. This cover allowed him to travel extensively without raising suspicion. Being full of pep, having good looks, lots of cash and a shiny Studebaker, he had lots of beautiful girlfriends attending his cocktail parties. However, behind his "olé olé" facade, he was a skillful KGB-agent, well trained to handle special photographic equipment and to run a spy ring. He was assisted by alias "Peter and Helen Kroger". The Krogers were living in a cozy bungalow at 45 Cranley Drive in the leafy suburb of Ruislip in West-London, posing as sellers of antique books. In reality they were Morris and Lona Cohen, two veteran communist agents, who had previously been involved in the Rosenberg spy case. They managed to slip through the holes of the FBI dragnet, and established themselves under a new -false- identity in the UK. It is interesting to point out that the Ruislip bungalow was situated nearby a US Air Force base. The "Krogers" were responsible to send the material Lonsdale brought to them to Moscow. That material came from two civilians working at Portland, Harry Houghton and Ethel Gee.

      Houghton was a staff member of the naval attaché of the British Embassy in Poland in 1951. Already at that time, attracted by easy cash, he was involved in illegal activities, including in black market operations. Starting innocently with coffee, he turned to lucrative medical drugs, a bit like Harry Lime in the "Third Man". He needed the money for entertaining a girlfriend and for his heavy drinking. This vulnerability made him an interesting target for the Polish secret police UB. However, their new asset spoiled it all, by causing outrage during a party at the Embassy in 1952.

      This is the starting point of "Ring of spies". After this incident, Houghton is send back to the UK. Although his drinking habits made him a security risk, he gets cleared for a job in the secret Portland facility, specialized in submarine warfare. Pure mismanagement ? Made possible thanks to the intervention of a sufficiently high ranking British civil servant with ties to the Soviets ? Things become even stranger, when somewhere in 1955 or '56, Houghton's wife introduced a complaint against her husband. She told the authorities that her husband brought secret documents to his home. After a rather sloppy investigation (?), the accusation was brushed aside as being unfounded, merely the result of the frustrations of a woman badly treated by her husband. In 1956 she divorced him, and Harry's money problems started again. This led him to move to a small caravan. Probably in the same year, agents from the Eastern Bloc contacted him again, and offered him cash in exchange for secret papers. With the help of his colleague Ethel Gee, he's soon able to move to a nice house and to buy a car, making exactly the same mistakes as Aldrich Ames (see "Traitor within") many years later.

      Peter Wright describes in his controversial book "Spy Catcher" how the revelations of a Polish source dubbed "Sniper" helped the British and Americans to identify Houghton, than to pick up the trail that led to Lonsdale and the Krogers. The British had to be particularly careful not to scare off professionals such as Lonsdale or the Krogers. Therefor, it is interesting to combine watching "Ring of spies" with the 1987 movie "A pack of lies". To quote Writerasfilmcritic, who wrote an excellent comment for IMDb about it : "Pack of Lies" is a very interesting drama (about) MI5 agents, led by Alan Bates as "Stuart", (who) skillfully manipulates a well-intentioned British family into believing that they are merely police on a routine investigation who need to use their home (...) "just for the weekend", in order to surveil a suspect who has been tracked into their neighborhood. (End quotation)

      POL depicts how MI5 sets up a surveillance in the Ruislip home of Bill and Ruth Search, who happened to live just across the Krogers. The presence of the MI5 agents is soon causing tremendous stress for the Searches,especially for the shy Ruth, who only has one real friend… Helen Kroger! (In POL she looks more flamboyant as the real one)

      The defection of "Sniper" to the West, accelerated the arrests of the Portland Spy Ring. Interestingly, Peter Wright is convinced that Moscow knew that Lonsdale had been identified by MI5, but willingly sacrificed him to protect a super-mole within the British intelligence community. Someone within MI5 or 6 who told Moscow all about the progress in the counter-espionage effort against the Portland Spy Ring.

      Both Lonsdale and the Krogers received long term prison sentences, but were released a few years later, in exchanged for a British spy. And even this sordid affair had a little bit of fairy tale-quality, as Houghton and Gee married, once they got released from prison.
      5Prismark10

      Ring of Spies

      Based on the true story of the Portland Spy Ring. Bernard Lee takes time off as M to play hard drinking loose cannon Harry Houghton. Sacked as an embassy attaché in Warsaw. He bids a drunken farewell to his girlfriend who works for the Russians.

      Harry is posted at a secret a Royal Navy equipment testing facility at Portland. He is soon approached by secret Soviet intelligence to hand over documents to them with the veiled threat of blackmail. After all he used to drunkenly tell secrets to his girlfriend back in Warsaw.

      Harry realises that to take the documents from the safe. He needs to seduce work colleague Elizabeth Gee as she has the keys. She nervously and reluctantly agrees.

      Once they get used to the money paid by his handler Gordon Lonsdale (William Sylvester.) They enjoy the good life, not realising that they have attracted the attention of the authorities suspicious of traitors in their midst.

      Lee plays Harry as a bluff chancer. A cynical drunk and not too bright. Margaret Tyzack makes more of an impression as Gee, seduced by the good life and greed.

      The movie has a documentary setting but plays it too safe and straight.

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      • Curiosidades
        45 Cranley Drive, Ruislip which features as the Krogers' home, was their actual address in real life, from which they transmitted messages to Moscow. A second transmitter was found at the bottom of the garden in 1980.
      • Erros de gravação
        The scene at Lords cricket ground uses a shot of stock footage of a match there. We then see a close-up of the pavilion, but it is clearly not the one at Lords. It was probably filmed at another, smaller, cricket ground in the south-east.
      • Citações

        Captain Warner: You're a bad security risk, Houghton!

        Henry Houghton: Okay, sir, that's it. That's it.

        Captain Warner: I'll have to make a report to the Admiralty about you. Maybe as a civil servant, they can't fire you. But I don't see how they can possibly give you a job with any responsibility again.

        [smash cut to]

        Christina: [Reading a letter from Houghton] Christina Darling - You will be surprised to learn that I have been posted to Portland, the most secret Admiralty base in the country.

      • Cenas durante ou pós-créditos
        Disclaimer in closing credits: "Although the substance of this film is based upon true events and the leading characters depict actual persons, neither the officials portrayed, nor their establishments, officers or places of work, are based upon real places or actual individuals."
      • Conexões
        Featured in Al Murray's Great British Spy Movies (2014)
      • Trilhas sonoras
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        (uncredited)

        Music by Oskar Sala

        CBS TV Music Library

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      • Data de lançamento
        • 28 de maio de 1964 (Estados Unidos da América)
      • País de origem
        • Reino Unido
      • Idioma
        • Inglês
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        • Ring of Treason
      • Locações de filme
        • 45 Cranley Drive, Ruislip, Middlesex, Inglaterra, Reino Unido(The Kroger's home - and in real life)
      • Empresa de produção
        • British Lion Films
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        1 hora 30 minutos
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        • Black and White
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