John Le Carre's A Murder of Quality
by Gavin Millar
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Actor: Billie Whitelaw, David Threlfall, Denholm Elliott, Glenda Jackson, Joss AcklandDirector: Gavin Millar
Brand: A and E Home Video
Cinematographer: Denis Crossan
Editor: Angus Newton
Producer: Brian Walcroft
Producer: Eric Abraham
Writer: John le Carré
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-12-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
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- From internationally acclaimed spy-turned-author John Le Carr (The Tailor of Panama), comes this intelligent and elegant thriller based on his best-selling novel of the same name. Featuring a stellar cast including Academy Award Nominee Denholm Elliott (A Room with a View), Academy Award Winner Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class), Joss Ackland (K-19: The Widowmaker), and Christian Bale (American Psy
Movie Reviews of John Le Carre's A Murder of Quality
Movie Review: Goody on the Outside/Evil on the Inside
Summary: 5 Stars
George Smiley (Denholm Elliott plays him so unassuming and gentle) and Ailsa Brimley (Glenda Jackson is a joy!) play former spy chums who crack a murder case in Carne, a classic English Boys School environment.
The school is all that is desirable on the outside, yet has dark secrets on the inside. Sheila Rode possesses all these secrets and is murdered for them.
What I find most intriguing about the story is how people remember Sheila. She is a Goody Two Shoes that everyone loved to hate. Even her father cannot say anything good about her, even when pressed by Smiley in his reporter's guise (Smiley: "How would you best remember her?" Father: "She got what she deserved.") Ouch. Her last act of blackmail was against her husband in a letter written to an agony columnist. In talking to Smiley (it turns into therapy for his agonized mourning--this is an especially good portrayal of complicated loss) the husband reveals he hadn't realized how much he'd hated her--how evil she really was--until after her death.
No clue wasted in this John Le Carre screenplay based on his book by the same name. I loved the cinematography. Those haunting images of the ghostly figure in the luminous raincoat on the bicycle traveling through the rain--what the homeless woman saw, of course, when she thought she saw the devil. Maybe she did.
--Janet Grace Riehl, author Sightlines: A Poet's Diary
Summary of John Le Carre's A Murder of Quality
Famed British spy novelist John Le Carré wrote the screenplay for A Murder of Quality, adapting it from his novel of the same name. Former Intelligence agent George Smiley investigates a murder within an elite British school. Storyline takes aim at the British class system. Stars British character actor Denholm Elliot (Noises Off), Glenda Jackson (Salomé?s Last Dance) and a young Christian Bale (Little Women, American Psycho).Similar DVD Movies
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