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Murder of Quality (A)
- Director: Gavin Millar
- Writer: John le Carre
- Producer: Eric Abraham; Brian Walcroft
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An early performance by Bale.
One of the last for Denholm Elliot before he, untimely, died.
And, for Glenda Jackson - she retired into politics.
A fine screenplay by John le Carre - adapted from his fine novel.
A perfect whodunit with more than a whiff of sexual scandal, impropriety and blackmail.
Luscious stuff.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Taken from the book by John le Carre, George Smiley rallies to the aid of his former intelligence colleague, Ailsa Brimley, to investigate a mysterious letter from a junion master's wife at Carne School - a boy's school. When Smiley goes to Carne to investigate, he finds the junior master's wife brutually murdered with her husband as one of the suspects. Smiley begins to scratch at the surface of the closed knit society of Carne and soon begins to find that things are not as they seem. Secret societies, sexual abuse, and a mysterious boy, Timothy Perkins, who is either another suspect, witness, or victim.
Cast & Characters
Denholm Elliott as George Smiley;
Joss Ackland as Terence Fielding;
Glenda Jackson as Ailsa Brimley;
Billie Whitelaw as Mad Janie;
David Threlfall as Stanley Rode;
Ronald Pickup as Felix D'Arcy;
Matthew Scurfield as Insp. Rigby;
Christian Bale as Tim Perkins;
Diane Fletcher as Shane Hecht;
Fiona Walker as Dorothy D'Arcy;
Nick Reding as Sgt. Mellor;
Michael Cochrane as Charles Hecht;
Charles Pemberton as Sgt. Ted Mundy;
William Armstrong as Rev. Fergus;
Moray Watson as Maj. Harriman