Tom Hollander, Cambridge Spies-God Bless America

Tom Hollander as the awesomely renegade Guy Burgess creating an "un american activity" My favorite scene in the whole series.

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[PrimaViolinist]

I have the biggest crush on half the actors in that movie. --Especially Samuel West. I love Samuel West.

You know, the ironic thing is that Tom Hollander also played Kim Philby (Toby Stephens' character) in TNT's "The Company". No one in my family understood why I was laughing when he came on screen. "He's done the Briish version of this movie!"

[BerriesBaby]

I KNOW! I was watching this and when Engleton came on it was like, oh come on.

[jazzandmint]

I've recently decided that I'm madly in love with Tom Hollander.

[iceSk8erxoxo]

omg i was laughing so hard he's such a good actor... although it's kinda funny hearing him talk like an american haha <3

[FightingTheNoodles]

Fuckin' A, Tom!!

I too have gotten the urge to do something like this. Sadly, never the guts. Mainly because I love my truck too much and don't want to inflict the damage.

[BarrelsPolesandJack]

I laughed so freakin' hard at this! He feigns a southern accent pretty dang good! I should know! I'm from Texas!

[MyBruno555]

@Histor

yes but a man with the all the intellectual advantages he had shoulda seen the problems with Joe Stalin's USSR long before that...I mean he had no problem recognizing a genocidal regime in Germany...and he wasn't some uninformed or uneducated prolo...something about Stalin and the USSR kept pulling at these effete snobs

[HistoryBuff75]

@MyBruno555

Actually he saw the flaws once he defected. Too late.

He ended up drinking himself to an early death.

[dancebandleader]

@iceSk8erxoxo  Tom Hollander to me is brilliant, Anyone remember

the film "Bedrooms and Hallways" ? Funny. And in that film Kevin McKidd,

as Tom's roommate, was hot.

[MyBruno555]

funny how Guy could see all the flaws in USA but missed em in the USSR....ah well the advantages of being a true believer

[MyBruno555]

Also Craincross isnt treated as one of the Cambridge cell which I think it has been concluded he was....

[MyBruno555]

as far as i know it has always been a mystery why burgess defected with McClean...be wasnt under suspicion yet and it made the althogh look worse for Philby or at least that is how Philby saw it. This movie claims Bugress left on orders from USSR and with Philby's approval but that isnt how it is commonly understood. So the movie presented its own interpretation which I didnt find very credible. As far as I know Phiby was always very bitter that Burgess defected with McClean.

[MyBruno555]

did these guys ever stop boozing and smoking? christ I am surprised they lived as long as they did! Burges--what a waste! you gotta wonder why the soviets even wanted him for a spy although i suppose his antics proved to be an effective cover...