The Dog It Was That Died (1989)
January 1, 1989Release Date
The Dog It Was That Died (1989)
January 1, 1989Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Alan Bates
Blair
Alan Howard
Purvis
Simon Cadell
Hogbin
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Suleika
Geoffrey Chater
Wren
Ciaran Madden
Pamela
Robert Lang
Arion
Zoë Wanamaker
Bildebeck
Details.
Release DateJanuary 1, 1989
StatusReleased
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Wiki.
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. The title is taken from Oliver Goldsmith's poem
"An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog".