Figure 1.--"Another Country" is about Eton. Here is a junior boy at the school wearing a top hat and Eton suit. |
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This is another British film about a public school. Set at Eton and deals primarily with teenage boys, but some junior boys are pictured fleetingly. Dramatization of
Soviet master spies Burgess and McLean during their school days. "Another Country" (1985) starring Rupert Everett (Guy Bennett), Colin Firth (Tommy Judd), and
Cary Elwes (Harcourt). Guy Bennett is a fictionalization of the Soviet spy Guy Burgess who defected to Moscow and Tommy Judd of the idealistic Communist John
Carnford, who died fighting for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War. The screenplay was by Julian Mitchell who adapted his very successful play with the same title
for filming. Both boys are rebels against the authoritarian conservatism of the school.
This is another British film about a public school. The screenplay was by Julian Mitchell who adapted his very successful play with the same title
for filming.
Set at Eton and deals primarily with teenage boys, but some junior boys are pictured fleetingly. The filming was done at Cambridge University, which accounts for the gorgeous architecture and the idyllic scenes on the River Cam. I'm not sure why it was not filmed at Rton, presumably the school did not want to cooperate with the production.
"Another Country" (1985) starring Rupert Everett (Guy Bennett), Colin Firth (Tommy Judd), and Cary Elwes (Harcourt).
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Dramatization of
Soviet master spies Burgess and McLean during their school days. Guy Bennett is a fictionalization of the Guy Burgess and his Soviet spy ring. Burgess who defected to Moscow. Tommy Judd represents he idealistic Communist John Carnford, who died fighting for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War. Both boys are rebels against the authoritarian conservatism of the school. The movie is a nostalgic flashback. It begins with an
interview in Moscow with Guy Bennet (now a broken and disappointed old man who has defected to the Soviet Union and will have to live there for ever); then it moves back in time to Guy's youth as a student at school. Most of the action is set when Guy is still a school boy in the 1930s. Guy is the romantic rebel His friend, Tommy, is a committed Communist who criticizes the values of the British upper classes from which he comes. The costuming is
very detailed and accurate. There is a scene in which Guy is caned for his dissolute sloppiness and rebellion against the strict rules of the school. As in the similar film "If...", there are scenes of the boys doing military exercises and singing Anglican hymns in chapel.
The boys wear top hats, tail coats, waistcoats, white shirts with starched collars, and long trousers. But we also see them in sporting dress, especially in white blazers piped with pink and with matching striped caps of pink and white (both worn for cricket). Guy falls in love with one of the junior boys (Harcourt) whom he entertains for lunch at an expensive hotel and to whom he makes love in a punt on the river. In these scenes the two boys wear more casual clothes because they are "out of uniform". Harcourt, played
by Cary Elwes, wears a tweed jacket with grey flannel trousers held up by braces and the school tie of pink and white.
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