The Deadly Affair

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Directed by

Sidney Lumet

Starring (View all)

James Mason
Charles Dobbs

Simone Signoret
Elsa Fennan

Maximilian Schell
Dieter Frey

Harriet Andersson
Ann Dobbs

Harry Andrews
Inspector Mendel

Kenneth Haigh
Bill Appleby

Roy Kinnear
Adam Scarr

Max Adrian
Morton - Adviser

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John Le Carre

Paul Dehn
(screenplay)

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Description: The Deadly Affair is a 1966 British espionage–thriller film, based on John le Carré's first novel Call for the Dead. The film stars James Mason, Harry Andrews, Simone Signoret and Maximilian Schell. It was directed by Sidney Lumet from a script by Paul Dehn. In the movie, a Columbia Pictures production, the central character is renamed Charles Dobbs since Paramount owned the film rights to the name George Smiley, the central character of the novel and many other le Carré books. Paramount acquired the film rights to the character name when filming The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The soundtrack was composed by Quincy ... (more)

Release date: 7 April 1967

Tags: Drama (2), Thriller (2), Spy (1), Espionage (1), Adaptation (1), Murder (1), Investigation (1), London (1), 1960s (1), 1966 (1), Based On Book (1), Wife (1), Double Agent (1), Columbia Pictures (1), Eurospy (1)

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"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. Sidney Lumet's The Deadly Affair is a very compelling spy procedural, anchored by James Mason playing John le Carre's George Smiley (though named"