The Deadly Affair
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| The Deadly Affair | |
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 Promotional movie poster for the film |
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| Directed by | Sidney Lumet |
| Produced by | Sidney Lumet |
| Written by | Paul Dehn John le Carré (story) |
| Starring | James Mason Harry Andrews Simone Signoret Maximilian Schell |
| Music by | Quincy Jones |
| Cinematography | Freddie Young |
| Editing by | Thelma Connell |
| Release date(s) |  October 1966 |
| Running time | 115 min. |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
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The Deadly Affair is a 1966 British espionage-thriller film, based on the story, Call for the Dead, by John Le Carré. The film stars James Mason, Harry Andrews, Simone Signoret and Maximilian Schell and was directed by Sidney Lumet from a script by Paul Dehn.
George Smiley, the central character of the novel and many other of Le Carré's books, is renamed Charles Dobbs.
[edit] Plot
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, an survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. As they uncover some horrible implications, Dobbs also discovers that his wife Ann has been having an affair with a colleague, Dieter Frey.
[edit] Cast
- James Mason as Charles Dobbs
- Simone Signoret as Elsa Fennan
- Maximilian Schell as Dieter Frey
- Harriet Andersson as Ann Dobbs
- Harry Andrews as Inspector Mendel
- Kenneth Haigh as Bill Appleby
- Roy Kinnear as Adam Scarr
- Max Adrian as Adviser
- Lynn Redgrave as Virgin
- Robert Flemyng as Samuel Fennan
- Leslie Sands as Inspector
- Corin Redgrave as David
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