All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Patrick Allen, ranked

Tony Wendice, an English retired champion tennis player, is married to wealthy socialite Margot, who has had an affair with American crime-fiction writer Mark Halliday. the following evening, he will go with Mark to a party, leaving Margot at home while hiding her latchkey under the carpet of the staircase facing the front door of their flat.

A voice-over narrator explains that in the mid-1950s, a nuclear war and devastation of Earth gave rise to three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia, and East Asia. By 1984, London, with its bomb-proof ministry, is designated as the capital of Airstrip One, a province of Oceania, controlled by one all-powerful Party, embodied by the figurehead Big Brother.

Encountering a distressed elderly woman on a train, an American computer expert learns that a homicidal maniac is menacing her peaceful little village.

After three hippie drug-dealers are murdered by the assassin in a house in Los Angeles, the U.S. government sends special agent Paul Sherman to track down the Dutch source of heroin that is causing the drug war. On arriving at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Sherman witnesses an agent, Jimmy Duclos, who was there to meet him, shot dead by the assassin.

When long-time British agent Harry Palmer loses his job because the Cold War is over, he’s promptly approached by a Russian bossman, Alex. In St. Petersburg Alex tells Harry of his plan for Russia’s future, which is threatened because a deadly biochemical weapon called the Red Death has been stolen from him. Palmer is called back into service by his government to help prevent North Korea from getting its hands on the deadly virus.