The Dog It Was That Died
In this movie, Rupert Purvis (Alan Howard) jumps off a bridge onto a dog, and causes problems for Blair (Sir Alan Bates), his superior at MI5, and Blair must convince Hogbin (Simon Cadell), the Agent who's been tailing Purvis, of ...
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"This rare, hard to find, made for TV film is as fast paced, as witty, and as bewildering as anything Tom Stoppard has written. Alan Bates plays the eye of the hurricane, the perfect, understated, thoroughly British, spymaster cum civil servant. He is plagued, as is everyone in the film, by his hobbies, and must deal with the failed suicide of one of his spies, who clearly didn't get it. Can there be anything more embarrassing than a suicide note that circulates while you are living? How very, very British of Stoppard. A delightful setup, all within the first two minutes(!), expertly explo..."
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The title of the movie is a quote delivered by the main character of the novel "The Painted Veil" written by W. Somerset Maugham. Maugham is quoting Oliver Goldsmith's ironic poem "An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog" (1766).
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In this movie, Rupert Purvis (Alan Howard) jumps off a bridge onto a dog, and causes problems for Blair (Sir Alan Bates), his superior at MI5, and Blair must convince Hogbin (Simon Cadell), the Agent who's been tailing Purvis, of ...