A Murder of Quality

A Murder of Quality

103 mins | Mystery | Oct. 4, 1991

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.

A Murder of Quality

103 mins | Mystery | Oct. 4, 1991

A Murder of Quality
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.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Portobello Pictures, Thames Television
Original title A Murder of Quality
Directors Gavin Millar
Writers John le Carré

Cast

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