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    But valiant truth-seekers(you,Finkelstein) ain't so good at finding Y'tube links to FREE movie etc Archived Message

    Posted by Jim_Carlucci on December 12, 2022, 12:48 pm, in reply to "Something decent on Netflix: Red Joan. (recommended by Finkelstein)"

    (Red Joan: but valiant truth-seekers(you,Finkelstein) don't seem so good at finding Y'tube links to clips+the WHOLE darned FREE movie! )

    Netflix - Norman ?!

    Why not go the extra crucial mile and get some
    more practical, and far more instantly
    benificial-for-all research done, amigos!

    It took me two entire selfless minutes using my
    stunning brain-power and altruistic will-power to find all
    these links..and 10 minutes of the same to locate,
    assemble and post this comment for the benefit of all you ineffably grateful, deeply appreciative Lifeboaters.

    NB. Judi Dench, as so often (thankfully/blessedy ?) barely appears and it's a very slow-paced, lowkey(small L) kinda Superhero movie.

    More like a TV drama. It's all about subversive ideas, angst, courage etc. I'm pleased to see that it was Cambridge Univ. that produced, enabled and empowered yet another wickedly heroic Commie asset - this time of the surprisingly/unusually female kind and before the likes of males like Philby, Blunt and McCarthy were a thing.

    1)Trailer:






    2) Or watch the WHOLE thing for FREE (Netflixed Norman et al) - and in splendiferous "HD Blu-ray" vision !!





    3) ...and here's the entire spoiler PLOT - start to finish - courtesy of oh-so wicked Wikipedia(link below) which is in fact(no sarcasm) always by far the best place to go for full detailed lengthy movie film plot "summaries":

    "The young Joan Smith is studying physics at Cambridge University. She becomes involved with Socialists and radical politics through her friends, Sonya and Leo Galich, German Jews.[6] Sonya and Leo Galich are cousins, but the former grew up with the latter after she was orphaned and their relationship is more like that of a brother and a sister. Through Sonya, Smith meets and falls in love with the intense intellectual, Leo.

    Joan is recruited to work for the wartime Tube Alloys project to build an atomic bomb for Britain and meets the scientist, Max. Leo tries to recruit Joan to spy for the Soviet Union, but she rejects his appeal and ends her relationship with him, accusing him of using her. Joan falls in love with Max, but their relationship ends when Max tells her that he wants Joan as his wife, not his mistress, but, because of Britain's strict divorce laws, he is unable to divorce his wife. In 1945, Joan is appalled by the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and is frightened when it is suggested that Britain develop its own atomic bombs to possibly use against the Soviet Union. Joan contacts the Galiches to provide information about the British nuclear programme to the Soviet Union.

    In an atmosphere of Cold War suspicion and paranoia, Joan finds her work increasingly difficult. After she again accuses Leo of using her, he dies, apparently a suicide, although it is later suggested he was murdered. Sonya flees Britain and Joan learns that Sonya's child was Leo's. The revelation of this relationship between the Galiches adds to Joan's sense of betrayal, and she returns to Max. After the Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb in 1949, Max is arrested by Scotland Yard and is charged with espionage for the Soviet Union. Joan visits Max in prison where he informs her that his wife has agreed to a divorce. Joan in turn tearfully confesses to Max that she provided the intelligence that led to his being charged, but he forgives her. Joan blackmails Sir William Mitchell, a high-ranking diplomat who is really a Soviet spy, to help Max. As a result, Max is released from prison. Joan and Max go to Australia, but return to Britain at some point.

    In 2000, Joan is arrested and charged with espionage. She is interrogated by two detectives from Scotland Yard, whom she accuses of misunderstanding her life, but gradually concedes that she did provide information to the Soviets. The tabloid press goes into a "feeding frenzy" and vilifies her as a traitor, calling her "Red Joan". Her lawyer son, Nick Stanley, first agrees to defend her but then disavows her when he learns that she did provide intelligence to the Soviet Union. Finally, Joan is able to convince him that her actions were motivated only by the desire to stop nuclear weapons being used again and he agrees to defend her, standing by her as she faces the tabloid journalists outside her home."


    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Joan

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