A Question of Attribution Movie Review 1991

Sir Anthony Blunt (Fox) is an internationally respected art expert who also serves as an art adviser to Queen Elizabeth II. His life unravels when an on-going British Intelligence investigation reveals him to be the fourth man in the Burgess-Maclean-Philby scandal involving Englishmen who spied for, and eventually defected to, the USSR. The investigation of Blunt's covert past is paralleled with his own art investigation of a painting attributed to Titian. Three men are depicted in the art work--with a fourth male figure discovered to have been painted over. Alan Bennett adapted his play for this TV drama.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 90 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Cold War Spies, True Stories, Art & Artists, Great Britain, Adapted from a Play

Screenplay

Alan Bennett

Cast

James Fox, David Calder, Geoffrey Palmer, Prunella Scales, Mark Payton, Jason Flemyng, Edward De Souza, Ann Beach

Director

John Schlesinger

Producer

Innes Lloyd, Richard Broke, BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)