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1 gen 1989 · The Dog It Was That Died: Directed by Peter Wood. With Alan Bates, Alan Howard, Simon Cadell, Sylvestra Le Touzel. 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 ...
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- Comedy
- Peter Wood
- 1989-01-01
The Dog It Was That Died is a play by the British playwright Tom Stoppard. Written for BBC Radio in 1982, it concerns the dilemma faced by a spy over who he actually works for. The play was also adapted for television by Stoppard, and broadcast in 1988.
Rupert Purvis (Alan Howard) has been driven mad by the confounding terms of his employment. While he was working for British Intelligence, a Russian spy approached Purvis about becoming a double ...
- Peter Wood
- Alan Bates, Alan Howard, Simon Cadell
But in a twist, the biter, rather than the bitten, dies: ‘The dog it was that died.’ The implication is that the man was so toxic (because he was far from being a good Christian really) that the dog, through biting him, has been poisoned by him.
This complicated spy spoof, written by Tom Stoppard, begins with Rupert Purvis (Alan Howard) – who works for a secret service agency known as Q6 – attempting suicide by jumping off London’s Albert Bridge into the River Thames. He accidentally lands on top of an Alsatian dog aboard a barge, saving himself but killing the poor beast.
Synopsis. Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent who’s been tailing Purvis, of which side Purvis is really on–once he finds out what it is. Cast. Crew.
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 which side Purvis is really on, once he finds out what it is. —Kathy Li
