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