The Strange Affair is a 1968 British crime drama film directed by David Greene and starring Michael York, Jeremy Kemp and Susan George.[1]
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Directed by | David Greene |
Written by | Eve Greene Stanley Mann Jerome Odlum Oscar Saul Bernard Toms (novel) |
Produced by | Howard Harrison Stanley Mann |
Starring | Michael York Jeremy Kemp Susan George |
Cinematography | Franz F. Palmer Alex Thomson |
Edited by | Brian Smedley-Aston |
Music by | Basil Kirchin Jack Nathan (uncredited) |
Production company | Paramount British Pictures |
Distributed by | Paramount British Pictures |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Peter Strange (Michael York) is an idealistic young police recruit who gets mixed up with the machinations of the tough and jaded Scotland Yard Detective Sergeant Pierce (Jeremy Kemp). Pierce is trying to arrest a gang for drug smuggling and later murder, but is thwarted respectively by a corrupt colleague and an unconvincing witness. Strange is shocked by finding the dead body of a murdered informant he knew and is himself brutally assaulted. Meanwhile, Strange is having an affair with Frederika (Susan George), a minor who he does not know is part of a pornography ring; her supposed aunt and uncle film and photograph her sexual encounters from behind a one-way mirror.[2] (Susan George was 17 at the time the film was shot.)
Pierce obtains copies of photographs of Strange's sexual encounter with Frederika and threatens to expose him to his superiors, ending his career, unless Strange plants some heroin on one of the gang. Strange reluctantly agrees, despite planning to leave the force anyway, as he is disillusioned by the failure to catch and convict the drugs gang. Pierce's planting of evidence is revealed and he is convicted of perverting the course of justice and jailed.
It was shot at Twickenham Studios and on location around London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Brian Eatwell.
Films directed by David Greene | |
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