A Murder of Quality (film)

A Murder of Quality is a 1991 television film directed by Gavin Millar, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by John le Carré,^[1] first screened on 10 April 1991 on ITV in the United Kingdom and shown in the United States of America on 13 October 1991 on the A&E network.

Plot summary

George Smiley, at the request of his old wartime colleague Ailsa Brimley, investigates the murder of Stella Rode. A letter had previously come to Brimley from Rode detailing a plot supposedly by her husband, Stanley Rode, who teaches at Carne School, to kill her. Upon investigating, Smiley learns of many secrets that were kept by the victim, and one being that Terence Fielding, a house master at Carne, was being blackmailed by her due to past homosexual activities. Smiley solves the investigation when it is revealed that it was not Stanley Rode who murdered his wife, but Terence Fielding.

Joss Ackland also stars in the six-part BBC adaptation of le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, playing Jerry Westerby and having a memorable if brief scene with George Smiley, played by Alec Guinness. That makes Ackland the only actor to have shared screen time with both Smileys, Elliott's and Guinness's. James Mason played the Smiley character also in the adaptation of Call for the Dead but could not use the name George Smiley because of contractual difficulties.

Cast

• Denholm Elliott as George Smiley
• Joss Ackland as Terence Fielding
• Glenda Jackson as Ailsa Brimley
• Billie Whitelaw as Mad Janie
• Diane Fletcher as Shane Hecht
• David Threlfall as Stanley Rode
• Christian Bale as Tim Perkins

References

External links

• A Murder of Quality at the Internet Movie Database

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