Scandal (DVD)

Since Christine Keeler has chosen to resurrect the story of her affair with John Profumo by publishing her autobiography, entitled “The Truth At Last: My Story” (Sidgwick and Jackson), I thought it a good moment to review the film “Scandal” which is about the affair that ruined Profumo’s career and nearly brought down a government. Christine Keeler was only seventeen when she came to London in 1959,seeking the bright lights, although she could have hardly been described as naïve. Already aware of her own sexuality, she soon discovered that a coy smile and a flutter of eyelashes could open many doors. She began work in the ...

Forget the occasional peephole moments (in any case, the orgy scene is a matter of lots of gyrating bottoms, and the comic touch of John Hurt sitting serenely in the centre of it). This is an enormously sympathetic and entertaining look at a particularly British mix of high moral compromise, and low down dirty sex. Hurt, as Stephen Ward, the scandal-loving conduit who brought together Profumo, Christine Keeler and the East German attache, inadvertantly causing the great scandal that shook MacMillan's government and destroyed Profumo's career. The actors are fantastic - Hurt is marvellous and almost loveable as Ward, an ambigious, gentle and gossipy chap, ...

Exhibit One: The eyes of Joanne Whalley-Kilmer - among the most wonderful of all sights in this wonderful world of ours are the big, wide open eyes of the gorgeous JW-K, and they have never been seen to better effect than they were in the 1989 film, Scandal, where she played the infamous (alleged) prostitute Christine Keeler, whose affair with the Conservative Minister of War John Profumo in the early 60's led to the downfall of the Tory government. Purest sex is the immediate thought that springs ferociously to mind when you see her in this wonderful expose of the moral hypocrisy of 60?s England ... she positively oozes sex appeal as she flaunts her stuff as one of ...