Grant Hicks

A gang of sharp witted street kids save Sherlock Holmes from an accusation of murder and to help foil an audacious robbery.

At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just received a letter from her saying she feared for her life at her husband's hand. The husband, Stanley Rode teaches at Carne School, but Smiley is doubtful that he had anything to do with his wife's death. As Smiley investigates, he learns that Stella was a nosy busybody who loved to learn other's little secrets and then gossip about them - or possibly blackmail them. When a student is killed and Smiley unearths a secret, he has the evidence to name the killer.Based on John Le Carré's 1962 thriller (his first) in which George Smiley is brought out of spy retirement to solve a murder in a British public school. The setting is based on Le Carre"s own schooldays in Sherborne and his brief experience teaching at Eton.

An American actor in England tries to find love and work.

１９８４年、国はリーダー的存在であるビッグ・ブラザーのもとに全体主義を敷き、他国と戦争を繰り返していた。ウィンストンの勤務する記録局では、過去から現在までの記事や文書など事実に至るものまで国家の意向で修正、削除し、国民への情報操作に余念がない。市民レベルにおいても警察が厳格に取り締まり、個人の自由が制限されていた。そんな中、ウィンストンはいつしか国家体制に疑問を抱き始める。ある日、若い女性ジュリアと出逢うウィンストン。やがて、２人は恋に落ちるのだが…。