The Deadly Affair

From the author of "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"

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Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.

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Creators

Sidney Lumet

director

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Paul Dehn

writer

John le Carré

writer

Cast

James Mason actor

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Simone Signoret actor Maximilian Schell actor Harriet Andersson actor Harry Andrews actor Kenneth Haigh actor Roy Kinnear actor

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Max Adrian actor Lynn Redgrave actor Robert Flemyng actor

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Leslie Sands actor Corin Redgrave actor David Warner actor Timothy West actor Stanley Lebor actor Charles Kay actor

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Michael Bryant actor

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Jonathan Wales actor

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Paul Hardwick actor

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Murray Brown actor