The Strange Affair
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5.3/10 Letterboxd Genre Crime, Drama Country United Kingdom | 6.5/10 Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 24 July 1968 (1968-07-24) Writer Bernard Toms (novel), Stanley Mann (screenwriter) Cast Similar movies Mad Max: Fury Road , The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies , Gone Baby Gone , Taken 3 , RoboCop , Lucy Tagline His name is P.C. Strange...Her name is Frederika...All of tonights secrets will be used against them tomorrow |
In swinging London near the tail end of the 1960s, newly minted constable Peter Strange (Michael York) is assigned to assist detective David Pierce (Jeremy Kemp) in an undercover drug sting aiming to take down mob boss Quince (Jack Watson). When the operation goes awry, Pierce and Strange suspect another policeman of tipping off the subject, and they resort to more unorthodox means. Meanwhile, Stranges budding relationship with nubile mod Frederika March (Susan George) takes an unsavory turn.
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The Strange Affair is a 1968 British crime film directed by David Greene, and starring Michael York, Jeremy Kemp and Susan George.
When rookie P.C. Strange falls for an under aged girl, he is unknowingly compromised by a pair of pornographers. Meanwhile, seasoned Det. Pierce is out to catch mob boss Quince and soon both plots intertwine.
Michael york susan george the strange affair 1968
Plot
Peter Strange (York) is an idealistic young police recruit who gets mixed up with a tough and jaded Scotland Yard detective (Kemp). The inspector is trying to arrest a gang of drug smugglers, and threatens to blackmail Strange unless he plants some heroin on one of the gang. Strange reluctantly agrees, but lands in further trouble when hes the one who gets arrested. Meanwhile, Strange is having an affair with Frederika (George), who is part of a porno ring where her aunt and uncle film her sexual encounters from behind a one-way mirror.
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