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.

오세아니아 지도자들은 국민들을 지배하기 위해 대형당을 조직해 사람들을 통제 감시한다. 스미스(존 허트)는 기록부에 근무하며 신문기사를 수정하는 사람으로 현재의 일을 당에서 원하는 대로 글을 수정한다. 그런데 대형당의 간부 오브라이언(리차드 버튼)은 스미스를 면밀하게 감시한 끝에 그가 사상죄를 범한 것을 알고 체포 심문하게 된다. 대형당의 당칙은 불순분자로 체포한 이들을 사상적으로 철저하게 복종하게 만든 후 그 사람이 사상적으로 완전 무장 되었다고 여겨지면 그때 사형을 시키는 오직 죽음 뿐인 당칙하에 그 모든 조직을 움직인다.