The Deadly Affair (1966) | |
| Director(s) | Sidney Lumet |
| Producer(s) | Sidney Lumet |
| Top Genres | Drama, Thriller/Suspense |
| Top Topics | Cold War, Spies |
Featured Cast:
The Deadly Affair Overview:
The Deadly Affair (1966) was a Thriller/Suspense - Drama Film directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by Sidney Lumet.
BlogHub Articles:
The Deadly Affair and Harper
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
See all The Deadly Affair articles
Quotes from
Ann Dobbs:
[shouting] How can you be so aggressive about your job and so gentle about me?
[Sobs]
Charles Dobbs: I've always thought that... being aggressive was the way to... keep my job and being gentle was the way to keep you,
[after a reflective pause]
Charles Dobbs: Well, I've lost my job, haven't I?
Charles Dobbs: [to Elsa] What kind of daydreams did you dream, Mrs. fennan, that had so little of the world in them?
Bill Appleby: I want to live to see the advisor eating his own vomit.
read more quotes from The Deadly Affair...
[Sobs]
Charles Dobbs: I've always thought that... being aggressive was the way to... keep my job and being gentle was the way to keep you,
[after a reflective pause]
Charles Dobbs: Well, I've lost my job, haven't I?
Charles Dobbs: [to Elsa] What kind of daydreams did you dream, Mrs. fennan, that had so little of the world in them?
Bill Appleby: I want to live to see the advisor eating his own vomit.
read more quotes from The Deadly Affair...
Facts about
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).
The ending of this film - somewhat different from that of John Le Carre's original 1961 novel - has Charles Dobbs discovering that the close friend who has been having an affair with his wife is in fact an enemy agent who has cynically initiated the affair as a way of keeping a surreptitious watch on Dobbs's activities. This is very similar to the ending of Le Carre's more famous novel, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", which was not published until six years after the appearance of this film.
read more facts about The Deadly Affair...
'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).
The ending of this film - somewhat different from that of John Le Carre's original 1961 novel - has Charles Dobbs discovering that the close friend who has been having an affair with his wife is in fact an enemy agent who has cynically initiated the affair as a way of keeping a surreptitious watch on Dobbs's activities. This is very similar to the ending of Le Carre's more famous novel, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", which was not published until six years after the appearance of this film.
read more facts about The Deadly Affair...
