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The Deadly Affair (1966) was a Thriller/Suspense - Drama Film directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by Sidney Lumet.

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By Rick29 on Aug 7, 2023 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

James Mason as Charles Dobbs.The Deadly Affair (1967). James Mason stars as Charles Dobbs--a renamed George Smiley--in Sidney Lumet's moderately successful adaptation of John Le Carre's novel Call for the Dead. The plot is more mystery than espionage as Dobbs tries to discover whether a diplomat (re... Read full article


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Bill Appleby: I want to live to see the advisor eating his own vomit.


Charles Dobbs: [to Elsa] What kind of daydreams did you dream, Mrs. fennan, that had so little of the world in them?


Ann Dobbs: [shouting] How can you be so aggressive about your job and so gentle about me?
[Sobs]
Charles Dobbs: I've always thought that... being aggressive was the way to... keep my job and being gentle was the way to keep you,
[after a reflective pause]
Charles Dobbs: Well, I've lost my job, haven't I?


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Freddie Young invented the process of pre-exposing color film (pre-fogging) to mute the colors and first used the process in this movie.
This is the only film in which siblings Corin Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave both appear.
The first film of Timothy West.
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