This filmis an attempt to cash in on the fashion in the US of "conspiracy" theory films made in the wake of Watergate. Since the ongoing political scandal at the time in UK was the Thorpe/Scott scandal, which was very much sub judice, and the previous one was the Poulson affair, which was still too politically sensitive for a film, the film makers turned to a scandal from two decades earlier; Profumo. With Ian Bannen's Energy Minister as a latter-day Profumo, and Barry Foster as a counterpart to Stephen Ward.
Unfortunately there was no clearly identified Eugene Ivanov, unless Joe Melia's Ronnie Brent (Linda Bellingham's gangster boyfriend) fills that role.
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