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
00:05:47 Oh, I see. Somebody I know.
00:09:14 - He must have been raving mad. - The letter sounds perfectly sane.
00:12:52 You ought to kick me out.
00:20:04 I loved my husband.
00:24:02 And I want to find out if it was a standing request
00:26:29 to give him an alarm call at 8:30 on the following morning.
00:30:59 I'm resigning from the Home Office.
00:34:29 What is it, seven years?
00:38:01 - Until you and Dieter... - Haven't I done you an injustice?
00:43:54 We've got the constabulary on the premises, Wilf.
00:49:11 There's another one dead in Surrey
00:52:36 No reply.
00:57:07 Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark.
01:00:19 Sorry. Oh!
01:03:39 That's why I thought we could, perhaps in Zurich, take some time and...
01:08:52 Brilliant. Are you sure you know the number?
01:13:02 Well, if he did, he never told me.
01:16:22 - It fits. - It could fit.
01:20:05 34, Merridale Lane, Walliston, Surrey.
01:26:06 Sometime a lovely boy in Dian's shape
01:29:35 I want to be there when they realise that neither summoned the other
01:35:33 Mendel? Mendel, hello?
01:41:59 I have to tell you.