Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent

Christopher Hampton, 1996 (95 mins, Cert. 12)

In Victorian London, a city of spies, one woman is about to be caught in a web of conspiracy and only one man has the power to save her.
(Playhouse publicity)

A highly atmospheric foray into the treacherous world of Foreign anarchists in Victorian London. Bob Hoskins, Gerard Depardieu, Jim Broadbent, and Robin Williams (credited under another name) provide mesmeric performances that heighten the sense of almost feverish tension and uncertainty emphasised by the evocative photography and underscored by Philip Glass's music. Superbly haunting.
(Steve Fagg)

Seen: Tuesday, 26th May, 1998 (Harlow Playhouse)