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- Sam Neil really is superb as Reilly; he manages to convey complex emotions while overall maintaining a tough-guy exterior. The supporting cast is solid, and the historical figures who appear, especially Lenin and Stalin, come across as convincing and extremely charismatic.
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Sam Neill is fabulous as Reilly - attractive, charming, cold, calculating, and confident. How much of Reilly's story is true is unknown, and perhaps it was expanded as dramatic license, but he is believed to be the first superspy, and there's no doubt that he was very successful at what he did.
Sam Neil really is superb as Reilly; he manages to convey complex emotions while overall maintaining a tough-guy exterior. The supporting cast is solid, and the historical figures who appear, especially Lenin and Stalin, come across as convincing and extremely charismatic.
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- 1983-09-05
- Crime, Drama
- 720
He praised the production and Sam Neill's performance and summarized "a mixed bag of pleasures, but it's worth dropping in on, if not in whole, then at least in part." Awards. Won 1984 BAFTA TV Award. Best Film Editors: Edward Marnier; Ralph Sheldon; Home media
Details Episode 10 Aired Nov 2, 1983 Trust In New York, Reilly (Sam Neill) works for a respectable business by day and a spy organization at night.
- Martin Campbell, Jim Goddard
- September 5, 1983
- Sam Neill, Norman Rodway
Apr 22, 2020 · (Reilly Ace of Spies, 1983 — answers telephone in bed) Reilly. SAM NEILL: My career did kind of morph into an international career. ... Boy do they smell good. SAM NEILL: I'm staying at home ...
Jan 15, 1984 · The response may have had more to do with Neill's magnetism than Reilly's. "There was a bit of sex-symbolism going on," said Neill, who says he received bagfuls of mail from British viewers, most ...
Sam Neill stars as the suave Reilly, who spied for Britain against his native Russia in the early 1900s, even plotting to overthrow Lenin.
