Rent Lord Peter Wimsey: Murder Must Advertise (1973)
3.8 of 5 from 53 ratings
3h 16min
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- Synopsis:
- A young copywriter at Pym's Publicity Ltd. falls down the staircase and is fatally injured. Before his fall the copywriter had notified his boss that something more dire than just bad copy has infiltrated the ad agency. The owner hires detective Death Bredon Wimsey in disguise, who poses as an adman taking over the dead man's job. As Bredon, Wimsey writes snappy headlines, banters with the typists and carouses with highborn lowlifes in his free time. All the while piecing together a web of nefarious criminals that has ensnared both the wicked and the weak
- Actors:
- Ian Carmichael, Mark Eden, Rachel Herbert, Robin Bailey, John Hallam, Fiona Walker, Christopher Timothy, Paul Darrow, Shirley Cain, Peter Bowles, Peter Pratt, Gwen Taylor, Antony Carrick, Bridget Armstrong, John Sterland
- Directors:
- Rodney Bennett
- Studio:
- Acorn Media
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Dramas, TV Mysteries
- Collections:
- Top Film and TV Detectives: Guide to Screen Sleuth
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