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The Secret Adversary

Episode aired Oct 9, 1983
PGPG
1h 55m

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7.1/10

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Francesca Annis, Agatha Christie, and James Warwick in The Secret Adversary (1983)

Crime Drama Mystery

After two old friends accidentally meet and resolve to become investigators for hire, they quickly become embroiled in a missing treaty and a Bolshevik conspiracy.After two old friends accidentally meet and resolve to become investigators for hire, they quickly become embroiled in a missing treaty and a Bolshevik conspiracy.After two old friends accidentally meet and resolve to become investigators for hire, they quickly become embroiled in a missing treaty and a Bolshevik conspiracy.

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7.1/10

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- Tony Wharmby
- Agatha Christie(novel)
- Pat Sandys(screenplay)
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Francesca Annis and James Warwick in The Secret Adversary (1983)

Francesca Annis in The Secret Adversary (1983)

Toria Fuller in The Secret Adversary (1983)

James Warwick in The Secret Adversary (1983)

George Baker in The Secret Adversary (1983)

John Fraser in The Secret Adversary (1983)

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Trivia
This film is very accurate in comparison to the book.

Goofs
In the final dinner scene, a fly lands on Julius Hersheimmer's hand.

Quotes
Julius P. Hersheimmer: [Tuppence says she works as Rita's parlor maid] You mean you're a menial?
Tuppence Cowley: I'm a special agent pretending to be a menial.

Connections
Follows Partners in Crime (1983)

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6/10

Anyone for tennis ?

Francesca Annis and James "anyone for tennis ?" Warwick are Tommy and Tuppence in this movie length introduction to the trying television series based on an early series of novels by Agatha Christie.

This particular novel, one of her terrible "Herzoslovakia" ones has been adapted in attempt to save something from it. A treaty with USA is lost in the sinking of the Lusitania and needs to retrieved to save the international situation and prevent a revolution. Christie was probably referencing this to the pre-WW1 political situation in central Europe, where the changing of secret alliances between the imperial powers led to the outbreak of war in Yugoslavia - the book was written before WW2 (published 1922).

Tommy overhears a conversation in a manky house in Soho and they become embroiled in the affair. Product placement – The Daily Mirror (which owned the LWT licence at the time).

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