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The Secret Adversary

Episode aired Oct 9, 1983
PG
1h 55m

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

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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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
Tuppence Cowley: Two young adventurers for hire... willing to do anything, go anywhere... Pay must be good, no reasonable offer refused.
Tommy Beresford: I should think that any offer we got to that would be pretty unreasonable one.
Tuppence Cowley: Tommy, you're a genius. That's much more chic: no unreasonable offer refused.

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).