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.
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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
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