The Deadly Affair (1967)
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John LeCarre's Call for the Dead was the basis for this gloomy, complex spy story. James Mason plays a British secret agent puzzled by the sudden suicide of Foreign Office higher-up Robert Flemyng. Mason had worked on Flemyng's security clearance himself, and can't fathom what personality quirk he might have missed. The agent suspects that the dead man's wife (Simone Signoret), a concentration camp survivor, may hold the answer to Flemyng's despair, but the Foreign Office wants Mason to drop the case. Mason hires retiring Inspector Harry Andrews to do some private detective work. What Mason and Andrews find out is more insidious than they've imagined; worse, Mason is saddled with a new dilemma--his wife (Harriet Andersson) has been unfaithful with a colleague (Maximillian Schell). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- James Mason - Charles Dobbs
- Maximilian Schell - Dieter Frey
- Lynn Redgrave - Virgin
- Harry Andrews - Inspector Mendel
- Max Adrian - Adviser
- Corin Redgrave - David
- Michael Bryant - Gaveston
- Charles Kay - Lightborn
- Les White - Harek
- Frank Williams - Second Witch
- Julian Sherrier - Waiter
- Dennis Shaw - Landlord
- Amanda Walker - Brunette
- Janet Hargreaves - Ticket Clerk
- Richard Steele - Businessman
- Margaret Lacey - Mrs. Bird
- Leslie Sands - Inspector
- Terence Sewards
- Simone Signoret - Elsa Fennan
- Harriet Andersson - Anna Dobbs
- Kenneth Haigh - Bill Appleby
- Roy Kinnear - Adam Scarr
- Robert Flemyng - Samuel Fennan
- David Warner - Edward
- Paul Hardwick - Young Mortimer
- Timothy West - Matrevis
- June Murphy - Witch
- John Dimech - Waiter
- Petra Markham - Daughter at Theater
- Maria Charles - Blonde
- Sheraton Blount - Eunice Scarr
- Michael Brennan - Barman
- Gertan Klauber - Businessman
- Murray Brown
- William Dysart
- David Quilter
- Director(s):
- Sidney Lumet
- Writer(s):
- Paul Dehn
- Producer(s):
- Denis O'Dell, Sidney Lumet
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