A Murder of Quality
October 14, 2010A Murder of Quality
Call Number: VHS01395
by Gavin Millar; Eric Abraham; John Le Carré; Denholm Elliott; Joss Ackland; Glenda Jackson;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: New York : HBO Home Video, 1991.
Notes: Originally broadcast in 1991 (103 min). Adapted from the novel of the same name by John Le Carre.
Summary: Taken from the book by John le Carre, George Smiley rallies to the aid of his former intelligence colleague, Ailsa Brimley, to investigate a mysterious letter from a junion master’s wife at Carne School – a boy’s school. When Smiley goes to Carne to investigate, he finds the junior master’s wife brutually murdered with her husband as one of the suspects. Smiley begins to scratch at the surface of the closed knit society of Carne and soon begins to find that things are not as they seem. Secret societies, sexual abuse, and a mysterious boy, Timothy Perkins, who is either another suspect, witness, or victim.
OCLC #: 42403444
Added: October 14, 2010
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
