The Deadly Affair

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The Deadly Affair
Promotional movie poster for the film
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, a 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

[edit] External links

• The Deadly Affair at the Internet Movie Database
• The Deadly Affair at Allmovie

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