The Deadly Affair (1966)
Directed by Sidney Lumet

Thriller / Drama

Film Synopsis

Charles Dobbs, a British secret service agent, is investigating a suspected communist sympathiser, Samuel Fennan.  Not long after Fennan meets up with Dobbs and explains that his interest in communism was an aberration of youth,  he commits suicide.  Dobbs visits his widow Elsa to express his condolences but becomes suspicious by her strange behaviour.  Things take a more sinister turn when an old friend of Dobbs, Dieter Frey, appears out of the blue and tries to elope with his wife...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Sidney Lumet
  • Script: John le Carré (novel), Paul Dehn, William Shakespeare (play), Christopher Marlowe (play)
  • Cinematographer: Freddie Young
  • Music: Quincy Jones
  • Cast: 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 (Adviser (Marlene Dietrich)), Lynn Redgrave (Virgin - Macbeth), Robert Flemyng (Samuel Fennan), Leslie Sands (Inspector), Corin Redgrave (David), Sheraton Blount (Eunice Scarr), Michael Brennan (Wolfe the Barman), Murray Brown (Nobleman), Michael Bryant (Gaveston), Maria Charles (Blonde), John Dimech (Waiter), William Dysart (Nobleman), Paul Hardwick (Young Mortimer (in "Edward II"))
  • Country: UK
  • Language: English
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 115 min

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