The Deadly Affair (1966) | |
| Director(s) | Sidney Lumet |
| Producer(s) | Sidney Lumet |
| Top Genres | Drama, Thriller/Suspense |
| Top Topics | Cold War, Spies |
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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 CafeJames 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:
Are you suggesting that Elsa might have connived in her husband's murder? That's rather a ghoulish thought, Charley.
Charles Dobbs: She's had a rather ghoulish life.
Charles Dobbs: [to Ann about her nymphomania] I've never held your appetites against you. The unaddicted shouldn't blame the addicted.
Charles Dobbs: [to Elsa] What kind of daydreams did you dream, Mrs. fennan, that had so little of the world in them?
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Charles Dobbs: She's had a rather ghoulish life.
Charles Dobbs: [to Ann about her nymphomania] I've never held your appetites against you. The unaddicted shouldn't blame the addicted.
Charles Dobbs: [to Elsa] What kind of daydreams did you dream, Mrs. fennan, that had so little of the world in them?
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This is the only film in which siblings Corin Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave both appear.
Candice Bergen was first choice as James Mason's unfaithful wife.
'John Le Carré''s hero George Smiley was renamed Charles Dobbs because Paramount had the rights to the Smiley name after producing The Spy Who Came in from the Cold the year before - also scripted by Paul Dehn - and later co-produced (with the BBC) the two mini-series with Alec Guinness as Smiley: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People. Also re-named was Dieter Freey as Smiley's antagonist, Hans-Dieter Mundt (Peter van Eyck in The Spy Who Came In From The Cold).
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Candice Bergen was first choice as James Mason's unfaithful wife.
'John Le Carré''s hero George Smiley was renamed Charles Dobbs because Paramount had the rights to the Smiley name after producing The Spy Who Came in from the Cold the year before - also scripted by Paul Dehn - and later co-produced (with the BBC) the two mini-series with Alec Guinness as Smiley: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People. Also re-named was Dieter Freey as Smiley's antagonist, Hans-Dieter Mundt (Peter van Eyck in The Spy Who Came In From The Cold).
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