In Summer 1961, at a party held on the Cliveden estate of Lord Astor, Minister for War John Profumo met, and subsequently had a brief affair with, a call-girl by the name of Christine Keeler, who had also been seeing a Soviet diplomat. The rumours circulated throughout the following year, but the Fourth Estate was less inclined in those days to disturb the privacy of those at the top of the tree. Eventually, the story made the papers, and Profumo made a statement to the Commons, denying impropriety over his relationship with Keeler. Three months later he was back, confessing that he had misled the House, and he resigned as an MP. But that was only the start of it.
Genre: Documentary
Stars: Christine Keeler, Muriel Gray, Alfred Denning, Johnny Edgecombe, Robert Llewellyn, Mandy Rice-Davies
Crew: Peter Orton (Director), Andy Lipman (Writer), Peter Orton (Writer), Jon Silverside (Editor), Richard Gibb (Director of Photography), Chris Morphet (Director of Photography)
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Studio: Channel 4 Television
Runtime: 65 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Sep 08, 1989
IMDb: 10
