A Murder of Quality
movie
Released October 04, 1991
Overview
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
Denholm Elliott
as
George Smiley
Joss Ackland
as
Terence Fielding
Glenda Jackson
as
Alisa Brimley
Billie Whitelaw
as
Mad Janie
David Threlfall
as
Stanley Rode
Ronald Pickup
as
Felix D'Arcy
Matthew Scurfield
as
Inspector Rigby
Christian Bale
as
Tim Perkins
Diane Fletcher
as
Shane Hecht
Fiona Walker
as
Dorothy D'Arcy
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Nick Reding
as
Sgt. Mellor
Michael Cochrane
as
Charles Hecht
Crew
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Brian Walcroft
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Executive Producer
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Grant Hicks
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Production Design
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Eddie Andres
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Art Direction
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Ann Sinclair
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Costume Design
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Louise Fisher
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Makeup & Hair
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Annie McEwan
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Makeup Artist
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Petrona Winton
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Makeup Artist
Gavin Millar
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Director
John le Carré
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Novel
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Denis Crossan
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Director of Photography
Stanley Myers
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Original Music Composer
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Gail Stevens
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Casting