A Murder of Quality
1991 · 1h 43m · N/A
Drama, Mystery, TV Movie
Directed by
Gavin Millar
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A Murder of Quality
Overview
At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just received a letter from her saying she feared for her life at her husband's hand. The husband, Stanley Rode teaches at Carne School, but Smiley is doubtful that he had anything to do with his wife's death. As Smiley investigates, he learns that Stella was a nosy busybody who loved to learn other's little secrets and then gossip about them - or possibly blackmail them. When a student is killed and Smiley unearths a secret, he has the evidence to name the killer.Based on John Le Carré's 1962 thriller (his first) in which George Smiley is brought out of spy retirement to solve a murder in a British public school. The setting is based on Le Carre"s own schooldays in Sherborne and his brief experience teaching at Eton.
Director and cast
- Gavin Millar Director
- Denholm Elliott as George Smiley
- Joss Ackland as Terence Fielding
- Glenda Jackson as Alisa Brimley
- Billie Whitelaw as Mad Janie
- David Threlfall as Stanley Rode
- Ronald Pickup as Felix D'Arcy
- Matthew Scurfield as Inspector Rigby
- Christian Bale as Tim Perkins
- Diane Fletcher as Shane Hecht
- Fiona Walker as Dorothy D'Arcy
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