A Murder Of Quality

In this adaptation of his own book, Le Carre knots his rope of intrigue with precision; the result is a made-for-TV movie that ranks with SMILEY’S PEOPLE and the feature film THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD as one of the best adaptation of the veteran writer's spy fiction.

George Smiley (Denholm Elliott) dusts off his WWII-era spying skills to investigate a murder in post-war academia at the request of a former colleague, newspaper editor and agony aunt Ailsa Brimley (Glenda Jackson). Sometime before Stella Rode (Joanna Jacobs), the gossipy wife of milquetoast professor Stanley Rode (David Threlfall) is choked to death, Alisa received a letter from her that s...