A Murder of Quality
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 junior 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.
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
Denholm Elliott
George Smiley
Joss Ackland
Terence Fielding
Glenda Jackson
Ailsa Brimley
Billie Whitelaw
Mad Janie
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David Threlfall
Stanley Rode
Ronald Pickup
Felix D'Arcy
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Matthew Scurfield
Inspector Rigby
Christian Bale
Tim Perkins
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Diane Fletcher
Shane Hecht
Fiona Walker
Dorothy D'Arcy
Stanley Myers
Composer
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Denis Crossan
Cinematographer