Espionage: The Complete Series on DVD

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Espionage: The Complete Series on DVD Distributed by
Network

Posted: February 20th, 2009.

Network Distributing is delighted to announce the UK DVD release of Lew Grade’s acclaimed ITC drama ESPIONAGE (12). This sought after series of plays produced by George Justin (Twelve Angry Men) and Herbert Hirschman (The Zoo Gang) covered everything from the then-current Cold War to 19th century China. It is available in a 6-disc set from all good retailers on 16th March 2009, RRP £59.99.

Espionage was one of Lew Grade’s earliest successes with a transatlantic production team, featuring both British and American writers and directors (including three plays directed by Oscar-nominated director Michael Powell (The Red Shoes, A Matter of Life and Death). With one play – The Whistling Shrimp – actually shot in New York. It attracted the cream of the acting fraternity including Roger Livesey, Stanley Baxter, Anthony Quayle, Sian Phillips, Donald Pleasence, Bradford Dillman, John Gregson, Dennis Hopper, Patrick Troughton, Barry Foster plus many more.

Special features on ESPIONAGE THE COMPLETE SERIES are:

• Script PDFs for Castles in Spain and Snow on Mount Kama
• Extensive Image Galleries, including many in colour

Episode Listing:

• The Incurable One: The story of a girl who is trained to hate and kill in wartime and for whom hatred remains when the fighting is over. It is also the story, too, of the man who trained her and then realises that, like a killer dog, she is incurable…
• A Covenant with Death: Two young Norwegians, members of the underground resistance movement during World War II, try to help an elderly Jewish couple escape from Nazi persecution but are forced to take extreme measures
• The Weakling: One human being in the maelstrom of war is a pawn to be deliberately sacrificed in the bitter tragedy of man’s inhumanity towards man.
• The Gentle Spies: How can military secrets be sensationally disclosed in pamphlets that are freely circulated to the general public?
• He Rises on Sunday, and We on Monday: This is the story of notorious spy and Irish activist Roger Casement. It is Easter 1916, and a German submarine noses its way towards the Irish coast.
• The Dragon Slayer: A journey back to the bitter, bloody struggles to overthrow the omnipotent Manchu dynasty which was still ruling China towards the end of the 19th century where idealism is pitted against a dictatorship.
• To The Very End: A group of students try to take matters into their own hands and bring France’s atomic bomb programme to a halt.
• The Light of a Friendly Star: A moving, touching, and at times amusing and dramatic tale of a spy whose outlook on life is influenced in a remarkable way by the schoolgirl daughter of a British ambassador.
• A Tiny Drop of Poison: How can the terrifying power of suspicion, gossip and circumstantial evidence, and how it can threaten a man’s career and personal life.
• Festival of Pawns: Four people are trying to flee from East Germany to the West. However, how many of them are, in fact, espionage agents working for the Communists?
• The Whistling Shrimp: A Washington newspaperman persists, against overwhelming odds, in following up a story that U.S. agents are at work to overthrow the Marxist regime of the leader of a new African nation.
• Never Turn Your Back on a Friend: Experience the harsh test of wartime comradeship between men of different nationalities whose adventures together as a team of saboteurs have cemented a deep friendship.
• Medal for a Turned Coat: A man flies from Germany to England to try to persuade the Allies to sign an armistice on the promise that the regular Army will revolt against Hitler.
• Final Decision: A man is persuaded to agree to be assassinated so that a refugee scientist can be smuggled to safety after he is told her doesn’t have long to live.
• Do You Remember Leo Winters? A girl in love is a threat to diplomatic relationships between two major countries.
• The Frantick Rebel: This is the story of an American girl in London who tries to smuggle English battle secrets to Dr. Benjamin Franklin in Paris, pitting her wits against the immortal diarist James Boswell and the erudite lexicographer Dr. Samuel Johnson. Directed by Michael Powell
• Castles in Spain: A mellowed idealist returns to Spain a quarter of a century after fighting there during the Spanish Civil War as a member of the International Brigade.
• Snow on Mount Kama: Independence for an African country unleashes a floodtide of emotions among all its inhabitants.
• Once A Spy: A British agent, deliberately sacrificed by his own superiors who, in the best interests of their country, are prepared to break his spirit.
• We, the Hunted: A wanted man is found in Spain. But the man who murdered 50,000 Jews brings a soul-searching problem to his captor…
• The Liberators: A aring bid to rescue a man who could take the place of a dictator. In this prelude to invasion, idealism is played off against materialism, and love against hatred, in the sweltering heat of a Caribbean island.
• Some Other Kind of World: A tale of jazz, the romance between a young American and an attractive Russian girl, and intrigue in the international world of espionage.
• A Free Agent: A bitter-sweet romance of a British spy who marries a lovely Russian agent, and the taut drama that follows. Can the two governments concerned allow such a marriage?
• A Camel to Ride: Te story of an Arab refugee problem, and an Irish priest who believes in fighting oppression by peaceful means and who has to struggle with his own conscience.

The DVD is out on March 16th, it runs for 1200 mins and retails for £58.99 on DVD.but is currently on Amazon at the link above for £40.39.

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