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House of Cards (1990)

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55 min

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18 Nov 1990

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War & Politics
Comedy
Drama

Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to take his place.

Keywords

based on novel or book
miniseries
british politics
british prime minister
political intrigue 

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@Geronimo1967

June 6, 2024

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As political dramas go, they just don't come any better than this - and Ian Richardson proves a master as an epitome of an ambitious schemer that even Machiavelli would have been proud of. He is "Urquhart", the chief whip of a government under new leadership. It's "Collingwood" (David Lyon) who take

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