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A Murder of Quality is a american film of genre Drama directed by Gavin Millar with Denholm Elliott
A Murder of Quality (1991)
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Add to a movie listA Murder of Quality is a 1991 television film directed by Gavin Millar, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by John le Carré.
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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.Actors
Denholm Elliott
(George Smiley)
Christian Bale
(Tim Perkins)
Joss Ackland
(Terence Fielding)
Glenda Jackson
(Alisa Brimley)
Billie Whitelaw
(Mad Janie)
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