A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events from his own past to determine who killed them and why.
Acting
Albert Finney's exhaustion is a performance in itself.
Direction
Forbes frames every room like a trap closing.
Writing
Dialogue that trusts you to read between every silence.
Director
Bryan Forbes
Albert Finney
Alec Hillsden
George Segal
Mr. Miller
Monica Guerritore
Silvia
Ian Holm
Control
Kristin Scott Thomas
Caroline
Benedick Blythe
Gunther
Julian Holloway
Waddington
Michael Medwin
Bayldon
John Standing
Belfrage
Sandor Elès
Hansel
Pamela Armstrong
TV Newscaster
Derek de Lint
Abramov
Anthony Quayle
Glanville
Ingrid Lacey
Inga
Nanette Newman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Forbes cast Finney after directing him in The Whisperers (1967), their reunion twenty-two years later.
Shot in 1989 but feels like Le Carré's funeral for the British Empire—Thatcher-era malaise in every frame.
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