A Murder of Quality (film)

A Murder of Quality is a 1991 television film directed by Gavin Millar, based on the 1962 novel A Murder of Quality by John le Carré, 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

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.

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

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