Screen Two (TV Series)

Blunt (1987)

Anthony Hopkins: Guy Burgess

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• Goronwy Rees : I always suspected Donald joined the Comintern when you did.

  Guy Burgess : No, later... Donald did his best work for us when he was in Washington after the war, '44 to '48. Procured a high-grade official pass to the U.S. Atomic Commission. So if there's a balance of atom power between us and them - and there is - you could say it's broadly thanks to dear old Donald. Our world's that much safer from bloody American imperialism.

• Guy Burgess : [to Blunt, as they prepare to go to bed]  I fully expected to loathe America, and I did. Boy oh boy.

• Margie Rees : You may have hated America, but it seems to have suited you. You look heaps better.

  Guy Burgess : [mockingly]  Thank you, Matron.

• Guy Burgess : [to his Soviet controller, Vasily, as they walk in the park]  MI-5 is rather like one's dear old nanny; you just have to tickle her in the right place.

• Guy Burgess : [on Maclean's impending defection to the USSR]  I shan't be sorry to be shot of Donald. Arrogant sod, really.

  Anthony Blunt : But invaluable for the Cause.

• Guy Burgess : I've given up benzedrine, too.

  Anthony Blunt : Most improved boy in the class.

  Guy Burgess : In the school!

• Guy Burgess : [as they embrace in a hallway]  My old, old love.

  Anthony Blunt : Oh, my dear.

• Guy Burgess : [to Blunt]  I've led you such a dance, haven't I?

• Guy Burgess : Like it or not, *ducky,* you're one of us. Why else do you think I'm telling you all this?

  Goronwy Rees : Because you have no choice, for some reason.