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The Trial of Christine Keeler

  • TV Series
  • 2019–2020
  • 5h 52m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
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Story of Christine Keeler, who found herself at the heart of a political sex scandal that rocked British government in the 1960s.Story of Christine Keeler, who found herself at the heart of a political sex scandal that rocked British government in the 1960s.Story of Christine Keeler, who found herself at the heart of a political sex scandal that rocked British government in the 1960s.

  • Stars
    • Sophie Cookson
    • James Norton
    • Ellie Bamber
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    • Stars
      • Sophie Cookson
      • James Norton
      • Ellie Bamber
    • 33User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 3 nominations

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    Sophie Cookson
    Sophie Cookson
    • Christine Keeler
    James Norton
    James Norton
    • Stephen Ward
    Ellie Bamber
    Ellie Bamber
    • Mandy Rice-Davies
    Emilia Fox
    Emilia Fox
    • Valerie Profumo
    Ben Miles
    Ben Miles
    • John Profumo
    Michael Maloney
    Michael Maloney
    • Bill Astor
    Sam Troughton
    Sam Troughton
    • DS John Burrows
    Anthony Welsh
    Anthony Welsh
    • Aloysius 'Lucky' Gordon
    Jack Greenlees
    Jack Greenlees
    • Paul Mann
    Chloe Harris
    Chloe Harris
    • Paula
    Rosalind Halstead
    Rosalind Halstead
    • Bronwen
    Anton Lesser
    Anton Lesser
    • Michael Eddowes
    Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
    Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
    • Johnny Edgecombe
    Sam Crane
    Sam Crane
    • Alan
    Amanda Drew
    Amanda Drew
    • Julie
    Dorian Lough
    Dorian Lough
    • Len
    Charlene Boyd
    Charlene Boyd
    • Ronna Ricardo
    Aidan McArdle
    Aidan McArdle
    • Roger Hollis
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    • Trivia
      Partly filmed in Bristol and Bath.
    • Crazy credits
      The main characters were not listed in the closing credits. Instead the actors (but not their character names) were listed in the opening titles, and the closing credits only listed the minor characters.
    • Connections
      Featured in Jeremy Vine: Episode #3.8 (2020)

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    8/10
    Not bad, but 'Scandal' was more succinct
    Profumo was the scandal that had everything: the minister! the spy! the call girl! the man in the mask! Ostensibly, this drama focuses on Christine Keeler, the primary young woman involved in the scandal, but like most latter-day accounts come to concentrate almost inevitably on the figure of the pimp. In fact, Stephen Ward wasn't really a pimp, more of a scapegoat, a social climbing osteopath who traded for status, not for money, introducing pretty young girls to an elite social circle. On one hand, it's hard to see his actions (and, indeed, the scandal in toto) as amounting to very much: men like to be around pretty girls, and rich and glamorous men can manage this, maybe even without having to explicitly pay - and it's nonsense to pretend that there's never any transactional quality to sex. On the other hand, there might seem to be something wrong when, in words attributed to Valerie Profumo in this drama, "life as a teenage girl is like being invited to a wonderful picnic, then discovering that you're the sandwich." Ward is hardly an admirable figure; but after the affair had nearly brought down the government, he was (absurdly) prosecuted for living off immoral earnings, and, abandoned by his high society friends, committed suicide.

    'The Trial of Christine Keeler' is not bad, but it is quite long - the film 'Scandal' dealt with the same material more succinctly. It's portrayal of Keeler is persuasive but not so interesting; James Norton plays Ward, and although at first I disliked the performance (not because it was bad, simply because I loved John Hurt's more sympathetic performance in 'Scandal'), it grew on me. Some of the best content is on its depiction of the Profumos, in the background in 'Scandal', but here we get a compelling portrait of Jack's sense of entitlement, while also seeing how his marriage managed to work, and survive in spite of public humiliation.

    Today the Profumo affair might seem to belong to a more innocent age, when we expected our supposed betters to behave (or at least, to misbehave in private) - it seems surprising that a tenuous connection between a minister and a spy could have been enough to ultimately play a large part in the resignation of a previously popular prime minister. But the era of "me too" has not just exposed stories of genuinely monstrous behaviour, but also raised questions about how women still have to negotiate a world where men hold all the cards. Ward was no Weinstein; but some of the issues are the same.
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    • Release date
      • December 29, 2019 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official sites
      • BBC First
      • Official Site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Fallet Christine Keeler
    • Filming locations
      • Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol, Beacon House, Queens Road, Bristol, England, UK(House of Commons)
    • Production companies
      • Ecosse Films
      • Great Meadow Productions
      • BBC One
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      5 hours 52 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.00 : 1

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