A Murder of Quality

A Murder of Quality (1991)

MysteryDramaTV Movie

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.

Director: Gavin Millar
Writer: John le Carré

Casts

	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
	Nick Reding as Sgt. Mellor
	Michael Cochrane as Charles Hecht
	Charles Pemberton as Sgt. Ted Mundy
	William Armstrong as Rev. Fergus
	Moray Watson as Maj. Harriman
	Tim Dutton as Simon Snow
	Helen Lindsay as Mrs. Harlowe
	Samantha Womack as Alice Lawry
	John Grillo as The Pathologist
	Jane Montgomery as Mandy
	Emily Raymond as Ann Snow
	George Raistrick as Samuel Glaston
	George Winter as Police Constable Dai
	Thorley Walters as Bishop Harry
	Joanna Jacobs as Stella Rode
	Ben Lushbrook as Boxer
	B. Davis as Plum
	Nick Lewis as Friend of Perkins
	Peter Snelling as Friend of Perkins

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