The Deadly Affair
- Released on
- Runtime
- 115 mins
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.
Cast
- James Mason
- Simone Signoret
- Maximilian Schell
- Harriet Andersson
- Harry Andrews
- Kenneth Haigh
- Roy Kinnear
- Max Adrian
- Lynn Redgrave
- Robert Flemyng
- Leslie Sands
- Corin Redgrave
- David Warner
- Timothy West
- Stanley Lebor
- Charles Kay
- Michael Bryant
- Jonathan Wales
- Paul Hardwick
- Murray Brown
- William Dysart
- Peter Harrison
- Roger Jones
- David Quilter
- Terence Sewards
- Paul Starr
- June Murphy
- Frank Williams
- Rosemary Lord
- Janet Hargreaves
- Kenneth Ives
- Juba Kennerley
- Petra Markham
- Patrick Halpin
- Leonard Llewellyn
- Patricia Payne
- James Payne
- Dido Plumb
- Pearl Prescod
- Robert Rowland
- Sheraton Blount
- Margaret Lacey
- Les White
- Michael Brennan
- Denis Shaw
- Maria Charles
- Amanda Walker
- Fred Machon
- Peter Roy
- Andrew Andreas
- Julian Sherrier
- Gerry Judge
- John Dimech
- Gertan Klauber
- Harold Coyne
- Alan Gibbs
- Lew Hooper
- Ned Hood
- Dan Darnelli
- Ann Barrass
- Bunny Seaman
- Judy Keirn
- Richard Steele
- Tom Bowman
- Joe Wadham
- Colin McKenzie
- Ernie Rice
- Victor Brooks
- Arnold Schulkes
- Martin Lyder
Director
- Sidney Lumet
Producers
- Sidney Lumet
Screenwriter
- Paul Dehn
