A Murder of Quality
(1991)

Released: 1991-10-04

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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.

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Denholm Elliott

as George Smiley

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Joss Ackland

as Terence Fielding

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Glenda Jackson

as Alisa Brimley

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David Threlfall

as Stanley Rode

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Ronald Pickup

as Felix D'Arcy

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Matthew Scurfield

as Inspector Rigby

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Christian Bale

as Tim Perkins

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Diane Fletcher

as Shane Hecht

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Fiona Walker

as Dorothy D'Arcy

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Nick Reding

as Sgt. Mellor

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Michael Cochrane

as Charles Hecht

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Charles Pemberton

as Sgt. Ted Mundy

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William Armstrong

as Rev. Fergus

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Moray Watson

as Maj. Harriman

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Tim Dutton

as Simon Snow

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Helen Lindsay

as Mrs. Harlowe

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Samantha Womack

as Alice Lawry

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John Grillo

as The Pathologist

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Brian Walcroft

Executive Producer

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Grant Hicks

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Eddie Andres

Art Direction

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Ann Sinclair

Costume Design

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Louise Fisher

Makeup & Hair

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Annie McEwan

Makeup Artist

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Denis Crossan

Director of Photography

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Stanley Myers

Original Music Composer

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