The Deadly Affair (1966)
The Deadly Affair is a 1966 British espionage–thriller film, based on John le Carré's first novel Call for the Dead. The film stars James Mason, Harry Andrews, Simone Signoret and Maximilian Schell and was directed by Sidney Lumet from a script by Paul Dehn. In it George Smiley, the central character of the novel and many other of le Carré's books, is renamed Charles Dobbs as Paramount who owned the film rights of their recently filmed The Spy Who Came in from the Cold had the rights to the Smiley character. The soundtrack was composed by Quincy Jones, and the bossa nova theme song, "Who Needs Forever", is performed by Astrud Gilberto.
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Cast:
- Max Adrian
- Harriet Andersson
- Harry Andrews
- Sheraton Blount
- Michael Brennan
- Murray Brown
- Michael Bryant
- Maria Charles
- John Dimech
- William Dysart
- Robert Flemyng
- Kenneth Haigh
- Paul Hardwick
- Janet Hargreaves
- Peter Harrison
- Kenneth Ives
- Roger Jones
- Charles Kay
- Judy Keirn
- Roy Kinnear
- Gertan Klauber
- Margaret Lacey
- Stanley Lebor
- Rosemary Lord
- Petra Markham
- James Mason
- June Murphy
- David Quilter
- Corin Redgrave
- Lynn Redgrave
- Robert Rowland
- Leslie Sands
- Maximilian Schell
- Terence Sewards
- Denis Shaw
- Julian Sherrier
- Simone Signoret
- Paul Starr
- Richard Steele
- Jonathan Wales
- Amanda Walker
- David Warner
- Timothy West
- Les White
- Frank Williams