Smiley makes inquiries among many Russian exiles, and uncovers a photograph revealing an astonishing secret.Smiley makes inquiries among many Russian exiles, and uncovers a photograph revealing an astonishing secret.Smiley makes inquiries among many Russian exiles, and uncovers a photograph revealing an astonishing secret.
- Ferguson
- (as Andrew Bradford)
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- TriviaThe flat Smiley searches is #6B. This is also the flat number of Sir William and Lady Beeder in The Horse's Mouth (1958), which starred Alec Guinness.
- GoofsIn re-tracing the General's movements it is said that as he used his stick in his left hand his left leg must have been the lame one. In fact it is more normal to use the walking aid on the opposite side to the afflicted limb.
- Quotes
The General: I speak to you as your father's comrade in arms. As his general. His friend. Do you hear me? You arrive in Hamburg Wednesday morning. Understood?
[Villem says nothing]
The General: I said, understood?
Villem Craven: Vladi, I am sorry, I am English. I don't want. No! Positively!
The General: [grabbing the steering wheel] GET THIS THING OFF THE ROAD!
[the lorry lurches off to the side of the road]
Villem Craven: You're crazy!
The General: [grabbing Villem's collar] Have you forgotten how the Russian monster raped out country? The deportations? The murders? The camps? Our best men, executed. Your father, one of them? Have you forgotten that, to your disgrace? You listen to me. In the making of history, God uses some very strange and inappropriate creatures. YOU are going to be one of them, yes?
Villem Craven: Yes.
The General: Repeat!
Villem Craven: Yes.
- SoundtracksPrelude I in C major, BWV 846 - Well Tempered Clavier
Written by Johann Sebastian Bach
Heard in Smiley's house whilst he is developing the photograph
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- Savoy Hotel, The Strand, Westminster, London, England, UK(Smiley leaves his parcel in the hotel safe)
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