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Reilly: Ace of Spies

1983 1 season 12 episodes limited series
69 Pulse
8.2 IMDb
One weekend 10 hours
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Plot

Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatising the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th-century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.

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Credits

Created by: Troy Kennedy Martin

Cast: Sam Neill, Michael Bryant, Norman Rodway, Tom Bell, Hugh Fraser, Clive Merrison

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