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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0084296403936
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Allumination
Manufacturer: Allumination
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Allumination
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 01, 2002
Running Time: 175 minutes
Sales Rank: 80708
Studio: Allumination
Theatrical Release Date: 1990
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Rating:  - Fun, if you don't take it too seriously
Having essayed at least two books on the Walker family spy ring, I found this TV mini-series historically suspect in the finest tradition of "made for TV movies", and yet surprisingly entertaining.
WHO THE WALKERS WERE: Though referred to as a case of a family of spies, much of the work was really done by patriarch Johnny Walker, a naval cryptologist whose access to USN code keys and related material allowed him to inflict damage against the US military. From 1968 at least until the mid 1980's, Walker turned over volumes of classified encryption material to his Soviet handlers - a career that began when he approached the Russian embassy in 1968. Never arousing much suspicion from his supervisors, Walker left the Navy fearing a routine background check might uncover his treason. (He also feared that his wife would turn him in, and he was unluckily dead-on in that respect.) Though initially motivated by desperate finances, Walker underpriced his product - clearing a million dollars only near the end of his 17-year career. Before leaving the Navy, and after being reassigned to an area lacking access to sensitive and lucrative cipher material, Walker recruited Jerry Alfred Whitworth - a naval communications specialist - to carry on his end of the business. Though a weak character, Whitworth is a superb spy, who excels largely because he willingly served in high security areas like Diego Garcia - an unpopular spit in the Indian Ocean reviled by those who serve there, but also possessing ... Read More
Rating:  - FAMILY OF SPIES
IVE READ THE BOOK AND SEEN THE MOVIE ON TV,WHICH IS WHY IM PURCHASING IT FROM AMAZON.COM.
ITS GOT LOTS OF ESPIONAGE,CLOAK AND DAGGER SCENES,AND IT REALLY IS A DYNAMITE MOVIE.
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