- Country: UK
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Release: 1967-04-07
- Director: Sidney Lumet
- Writers: Paul Dehn
- Language: English
- Stars: James Mason , Maximilian Schell , Simone Signoret , Harriet Andersson , Harry Andrews , Kenneth Haigh , Roy Kinnear , Max Adrian , Lynn Redgrave , Robert Flemyng
- Runtime: 107 min
- Awards: Nominated for 5 BAFTA 5 nominations total
- AKA: John le Carré's The Deadly Affair (United Kingdom) , Смертельна справа (Ukraine) , The Deadly Affair (United Kingdom) , Telefon til avdøde (Norway) , Chiamata per il morto (Italy) , Puhelu vainajalle (Finland) , Smrtonosna afera , Duas Plateias para a Morte (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , M.15 demande protection (France, French Republic) , M-15 vraagt om bescherming (Belgium) , Kyôfu to no sôgû (Japan) , Llamada para un muerto (Spain) , Casus Kim (Turkey) , 恐怖との遭遇 (Japan) , Смъртоносна афера (Bulgaria) , The Deadly Affair (United States of America) , Uma Poltrona para a Morte (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , I kataskopos tou Londinou (Greece) , John Le Carre's Spionen måste dö (Sweden) , Ébresztő a halottnak (Hungary) , Samtal med den döde (Finland) , Llamada para el muerto (Mexico) , De kus van het gevaar (Netherlands the) , John Le Carre's Puhelu vainajalle (Finland) , The Deadly Affair , The Deadly Affair (Canada) , Дело самоубийцы , Afacerea mortală (Romania) , The Deadly Affair (Singapore) , John le Carré's The Deadly Affair , Telefon til afdøde (Denmark) , Śmiertelna sprawa (Poland) , Chamada para um Morto (Brazil) , Anruf für einen Toten
- Plot:
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.
- IMDB:tt0061556
Sidney Lumet
Director
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
(1939–2010)
David
David Warner
(I)
Edward II (in Edward II)
Timothy West
Matrvis (in Edward II)
Stanley Lebor
Lancaster (in Edward II)
Charles Kay
Lightborn (in Edward II)
Michael Bryant
Gaveston (in Edward II)
Paul Hardwick
Young Mortimer (in Edward II)
Murray Brown
Nobleman (in Edward II)
William Dysart
Nobleman (in Edward II)
David Quilter
Nobleman (in Edward II)
Terence Sewards
Nobleman (in Edward II)
Frank Williams
Witch #2 (in Macbeth)
Kenneth Ives
Stage Hand
Juba Kennerley
Play Spectator