The Deadly Affair

The Deadly Affair is a 1966 British espionagethriller film, based on John le Carrs 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 Carrs books, is renamed Charles Dobbs as Paramount, which 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.

Location shooting for The Deadly Affair took place in London, in St. Jamess Park, at the Balloon Tavern and the Chelsea Embankment in Chelsea, in Clapham and Barnes, and in Twickenham. The exterior of Dobbs house is in St. Georges Square, Pimlico.Director of photography Freddie Youngs technique of preexposing the colour film negative to a small, controlled amount of light known as flashing or prefogging in order to create a muted colour pallette was first used in this film. Lumet called the result colorless color and it proved influential, being used by other cinematographers such as Vilmos Zsigmond on McCabe amp Mrs. Miller. ........

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