The Deadly Affair
1967 · 115 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 4,410 VOTES · DIR. Sidney Lumet
Overview
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,280 lines
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00:02:01 Mr Fennan, we know it's idiotic
00:05:41 Who was it this time?
00:09:00 "I realise that I am the victim of paid informers and that my career is ruined.
00:12:37 We tried that before.
00:19:25 - Are you married, Mr Dobbs? - Yes.
00:23:35 Would you like me out, too, sir, while you phone the Adviser?
00:26:04 let us at least try to separate fact from hypothesis.
00:30:13 We used them as the key to Dieter's radio code
00:33:37 Your pupil still remembers the handbook.
00:37:21 I'm going to lock myself out for a bit until we see...
00:42:58 Scarr!
00:47:03 Scarr! Come outside!
00:51:09 I had a phone number.
00:55:17 - Dieter said he thought you might be. - No, I've resigned.
00:59:17 Let's take it from the second "Double, double," please.
01:01:55 Very good, too.
01:07:02 One extension telephone on a table desk with no drawers.
01:10:59 Look at me.
01:14:38 - Key pressures aren't the same. - And the other?
01:17:51 but even if she did know, look
01:24:22 Yeah, it was sustained by the sight of a four-penny stamp on the envelope.
01:27:20 waving that thing like a luminous Indian club.
01:30:54 Oh, at that name I feel a hell of grief!
01:37:44 and drew the attention of Security.