This English made for TV movie is tense and absorbing. It concerns the
effect on a long time friendship between two women (Ellen Burstyn and
Teri Garr) when Scotland yard asks Burstyn to use her house to spy on
Garr, a suspected Russian spy (along with her husband) during the cold war. The film is extermely intelligently scripted and builds to a climax
that is at once disturbing and tension ridden as well as painful. It
can be watched repeatedly and never seems to lose its bite.

An amazingly powerful drama based on the Hugh Whitmore play, in turn based on the true story of the Soviet spies, Peter and Helen Kroger. This is a low-budget, low-key movie that builds an emotional intensity that is almost unbearable. The cast is superb, without exception, and Anthony Page's direction is unerring.

A neglected masterpiece that all drama lovers should see.