A Deadly Game

Directed by Jack Gold

Written by Keith Waterhouse (screenplay), Brian Freemantle (novel)

Cast: David Hemmings as Charlie Muffin, Sam Wanamaker as Ruttgers, Jennie Linden as Edith, Ian Richardson as Cuthbertson, Ralph Richardson as Sir Archibald Willoughby

Released 1979

A new head of MI6 wants the old gone and that definitely includes Charlie Muffin. Then a Soviet spymaster indicates he might defect and it falls to Muffin to get him before the CIA can.