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.
as George Smiley
as Terence Fielding
as Alisa Brimley
as Mad Janie
as Stanley Rode
as Felix D'Arcy
as Inspector Rigby
as Tim Perkins
as Shane Hecht
as Dorothy D'Arcy
as Sgt. Mellor
as Charles Hecht
as Sgt. Ted Mundy
as Rev. Fergus
as Maj. Harriman
as Simon Snow
as Mrs. Harlowe
as Alice Lawry
as The Pathologist
as Mandy
as Ann Snow
as Samuel Glaston
as Police Constable Dai
as Bishop Harry
as Stella Rode
as Boxer
as Plum
as Friend of Perkins
as Friend of Perkins
