Traitor

Name: Traitor
Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Released: 1971-10-14
Duration: 59 min
Rating: 8.3
Cast: John Le Mesurier, Jack Hedley, Diana Fairfax, Jon Laurimore, Lyndon Brook

Traitor (1971)

0:59 (59 min)

Drama, TV Movie

United Kingdom

8.3/10
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Director

Scenario

Producer

Graeme MacDonald

Actors

Adrian Harris

James

Lady Emma

Thomas

Lyndon Brook

Sir Arthur Harris

Richard Marner

Michaelov

Terence Bayler

Duty Clerk

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Short 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