The Deadly Affair

Directed By:
Sidney Lumet

Cast:
James Mason .... Charles Dobbs
Simone Signoret .... Elsa Fennan
Maximilian Schell ... Dieter Frey
Harriet Andersson .... Ann Dobbs
Harry Andrews .... Insp. Mendel
Kenneth Haigh .... Bill Appleby
Roy Kinnear .... Adam Scarr
Max Adrian .... Adviser
Lynn Redgrave .... Virgin
Robert Flemyng .... Samuel Fennan
Leslie Sands .... Inspector
Corin Redgrave .... David

Released: 1966

George Smiley had liked the man and now the man was dead. Suicide. But why? An anonymous letter had alleged that Foreign Office man Samuel Fennan had been a member of the Communist Party as a student before the war. Nothing very unusual for his generation. Smiley had made it clear that the investigation - little more than a routine security check - was over and that the file on Fennan could be closed. Next day, Fennan was dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and he couldn't go on. Why? Smiley was puzzled ...