A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans...
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Title: Breaking the Code (TV Movie 1996)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Derek Jacobi | ... | Alan Turing | |
| Alun Armstrong | ... | Mick Ross | |
| Blake Ritson | ... | Christopher Morcom | |
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William Mannering | ... | Young Alan Turing |
| Prunella Scales | ... | Sara Turing | |
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Julian Kerridge | ... | Ron Miller |
| Harold Pinter | ... | John Smith | |
| Richard Johnson | ... | Dilwyn 'Dilly' Knox | |
| Amanda Root | ... | Patricia 'Pat' Green | |
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A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal. Written by Will Gilbert
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Dilwyn 'Dilly' Knox: I don't give a tuppenny damn whether you choose to go to bed with choirboys or cocker spaniels, but it would be wiser to keep your private life to yourself.
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Sir Derek Jacobi is just over six years younger than his screen mother played by Prunella Scales. See more »Quotes
[giving friendly advice to Turing about his homosexuality which was regarded as illegal at the time]Dilwyn 'Dilly' Knox: I don't give a tuppenny damn whether you choose to go to bed with choirboys or cocker spaniels, but it would be wiser to keep your private life to yourself.
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It all goes to show the power of Hollywoodification and some star glitz. I have just come here from submitting a review of Moore's "The Imitation Game", which I thought a fairly pathetic excuse of a historical drama, with some scenes at the level of adolescent petulance. Yet this movie currently enjoys an overall reviewer rating of 8.0, greater than the 7.3 provided by a mere 10 users to "Breaking the Code". Well let me set the record straight that Breaking the Code may have been "just" a TV movie, and it may not have had an all-star cast, and it may not have contained ludicrous histrionics obviously fabricated by a facile writer, and it may not have been pushed upon the world with the full power of Hollywood's promotional machine. But for all that, it is a far, far better drama. It portrays Turing credibly, it describes how Enigma was broken in a simplified, but sensible way, it shows with sensitivity the effect on Turing of prosecution for homosexuality. The Imitation Game has 719 user reviews, Breaking the Code has 11, including mine (shaking head with disgust).