6/26/2023 0 Comments Reilly by Robin Bruce LockhartEach volume contains two episodes (running to about 100 minutes) and videos are priced £12.99, whilst the DVDs are only £16.99 and contain a host of special features including a Sam Neill biography, cast filmographies, and scene indexing, and you can order any of them directly from Acorn Media themselves, or via Blackstar. This entire series in now avialable on 6 volumes of video from Acorn Media, and the first two volumes are also available on DVD. There was a superb supporting cast as well, with Peter Egan, (Ever Decreasing Circles), Leo McKern (Rumpole), and Kenneth Cranham (Harvey Moon) among many others. Although the series was based on the biography of the real Reilly by Robin Bruce Lockhart, some license was used to make for better TV. His attempt failed and Reilly was executed at the hands of the Supreme Soviet Revolutionary Tribunal. This lavish 12 part series was made by Euston Films (a division of Thames Television) and starred Sam Neill as Sidney Reilly, a British Agent born in Odessa, raised in an aristocratic Russian family, and aiming to topple the Bolshevik regime and install a British-approved government with himself at the head in its place.
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