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.

The Deadly Affair (1967)

From the author of "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"

★ 6.3/10 January 26, 1967 115 min

DramaMysteryThriller

Director: Sidney Lumet  ·  Writer: Paul Dehn

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.

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Director

Sidney Lumet

Cast

James Mason Charles Dobbs Simone Signoret Elsa Fennan Maximilian Schell Dieter Frey Harriet Andersson Ann Dobbs Harry Andrews Inspector Mendel Kenneth Haigh Bill Appleby Roy Kinnear Adam Scarr Max Adrian Morton - Adviser Lynn Redgrave Virgin Bumpus Robert Flemyng Samuel Fennan Leslie Sands Inspector Corin Redgrave David