A Murder of Quality
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.
Cast
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Denholm Elliott
Played George Smiley
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Joss Ackland
Played Terence Fielding
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Glenda Jackson
Played Alisa Brimley
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Billie Whitelaw
Played Mad Janie
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David Threlfall
Played Stanley Rode
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Ronald Pickup
Played Felix D'Arcy
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Matthew Scurfield
Played Inspector Rigby
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Christian Bale
Played Tim Perkins
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Diane Fletcher
Played Shane Hecht
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Fiona Walker
Played Dorothy D'Arcy
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Nick Reding
Played Sgt. Mellor
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Michael Cochrane
Played Charles Hecht
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Charles Pemberton
Played Sgt. Ted Mundy
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William Armstrong
Played Rev. Fergus
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Moray Watson
Played Maj. Harriman
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Tim Dutton
Played Simon Snow
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Helen Lindsay
Played Mrs. Harlowe
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Samantha Womack
Played Alice Lawry
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John Grillo
Played The Pathologist
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Jane Montgomery
Played Mandy
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Emily Raymond
Played Ann Snow
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George Raistrick
Played Samuel Glaston
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George Winter
Played Police Constable Dai
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Thorley Walters
Played Bishop Harry
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Joanna Jacobs
Played Stella Rode
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Ben Lushbrook
Played Boxer
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B. Davis
Played Plum
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Nick Lewis
Played Friend of Perkins
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Peter Snelling
Played Friend of Perkins
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