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Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey in this classic BBC adaptation of the novel by Dorothy L Sayers. Lord Peter Wimsey attends the wedding of Sir Charles Thorpe's son at which an extremely valuable emerald necklace belonging to Lady Wilbraham is stolen. Thanks to Wimsey's quick thinking the culprits are apprehended although the whereabouts of the jewels remain a mystery. Many years later, when a mutilated, unidentified corpse is found in the grave of the recently deceased Lady Thorpe. Wimsey investigates and becomes embroiled in an attempt to recover the necklace which was stolen many years before. - Director:
- Raymond Menmuir
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- Ian Carmichael, Glyn Houston, Keith Drinkel
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Feature is a classic of screen history and as uproariously funny today as it was seventy years ago. This film introduced Groucho's African lecture ("One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got into my pyjamas, I don't know... ") and the card game which Harpo and Chico play with the wealthy society woman Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont). - Director:
- Victor Heerman
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- Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
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Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Rose (played by William Mervyn), was first introduced in 'The Odd Man' and 'It's Dark Outside', Granada's cult crime series of the early '60s, and this sequel sees the acerbic detective taking on a further selection of intriguing cases alongside Donald Webster as his enigmatic manservant, John Halifax; this series also features guest turns from Barbara Shelley, Tenniel Evans and Robert Urquhart. Mr. Rose has now retired from the force to cultivate his cottage garden and concentrate on writing his memoirs. But a number of people have good reason to fear Rose s vast personal collection of case files. A veritable library of crime, it contains a wealth of incriminating detail that villains and former colleagues alike would rather remain unpublished. Time may have mellowed Mr. Rose, but he s as sharp as ever as he deals with their attempts to stop him revealing all... - Director:
- Ian Fordyce
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- William Mervyn, Lindsay Campbell, John Challis
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Wanted for Murder (1946)A Voice in the Night
Pretty Anne Fielding (Dulcie Gray) has her pick of men. There's her boyfriend, the sophisticated Victor (Eric Portman), and now there's Jack... He's the humble bus conductor who comes to her rescue after the bus stalls and delays her journey by an hour. She was on her way to meet Victor at the Hampstead Heath fairground and Jack gallantly escorts her there. Sparks fly between the pair as they share ice cream and enjoy the fair while keeping an eye out for Victor. When they finally reunite, Anne and Victor head for home at the same time a young woman is found dead on the Heath. She appears to be the latest victim of The Strangler', a notorious serial killer who has already struck five times before. With Jack seen storming away from the scene and Victor's handkerchief found near the body, the police seize both men to appear in the lineup of potential suspects. A crazed game of cat and mouse ensues and Anne soon finds herself in serious danger. The police are up against time in this race to draw the threads together - but in the end, which neck will they close around? Will the police get their killer before he gets Anne? - Director:
- Lawrence Huntington
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- Eric Portman, Dulcie Gray, Derek Farr
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Curry and Chips: Series (1969)Curry & Chips
Written by Johnny Speight creator of 'Till Death Us Do Part' and based on an idea by Spike Milligan, 'Curry and Chips' proved to be one of the most controversial situation comedies ever made. Originally screened in 1969, the series featured Milligan as Kevin O'Grady, a man of mixed Asian and Irish descent who has just started his new job at Lillicrap Ltd, manufacturer of cheap novelty items and seaside souvenirs. Inevitably, he soon becomes the butt of jokes from his resoundingly intolerant workmates. Speight's determined attempt at confronting racism with its own conventions polarised critical opinion, although it was extremely popular with the viewing public and ended up in the ITV Top Ten. Co-starring with Milligan was long-term friend, writing partner and comedy legend Eric Sykes as shop foreman Arthur Blenkinsop. Kenny Lynch, Norman Rossington and Geoffrey Hughes played their narrow-minded workmates. Reflecting the widespread and overt prejudices of its time, 'Curry and Chips' attempted to confront bigotry in daily life by caricaturing it. Exploring similar territory to Johnny Speight's earlier and highly successful 'Till Death Us Do Part' 'Curry and Chips' will inevitably shock modern audiences in its language and single-minded focus on race. - Director:
- Keith Beckett
- Cast:
- Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes, Kenny Lynch
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Lord Peter Wimsey: Clouds of Witness (1972)Lord Peter Wimsey - Diskrete Zeugen
Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey in this classic BBC adaptation of the novel by Dorothy L Sayers. When Captain Cathcart, the fiance of Lord Peter's sister, is murdered and Lord Peter's own brother is accused of the murder, Lord Peter Wimsey decides to join in the investigation in order to find out what really happened. A mysterious letter from Egypt, a grieving fiancee with a suitcase and a bullet destined for one very special Wimsey are uncovered but who is the real murderer? - Director:
- Hugh David
- Cast:
- Ian Carmichael, Glyn Houston, Mark Eden
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Set in the dark heart of Victorian London, follows Detective Inspector Rabbit (Matt Berry), a hardened booze-hound who's seen it all, and his hapless new partner Strauss (Freddie Fox). They are joined by Mabel (Susan Wokoma), the ambitious daughter of police chief Wisbech (Alun Armstrong). Together they must fight crime while rubbing shoulders with street gangs, crooked politicians, Bulgarian royalty, spiritualists, music hall stars and the Elephant Man. But Rabbit's nemesis, Inspector Tanner (Paul Kaye) is always waiting in the wings to thwart their efforts. Also starring Keeley Hawes (Bodyguard) as the mysterious Lydia and Sally Phillips (Veep) as Princess Violetta of Bulgaria, Jill Halfpenny (Three Girls) is Rabbit's ex, the deadly Flora and Ann Mitchell as barmaid Gwen.. - Director:
- Ben Taylor
- Cast:
- Matt Berry, Freddie Fox, Susan Wokoma
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Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey in this classic BBC adaptation of the novel by Dorothy L. Sayers. Lord Peter is called upon to investigate the death of the aged General Fentiman who apparently died peacefully in his chair by the open fire at the Bellona Club. It would have been dismissed as simply old age, had the exact timing of the General's death not been vital to the distribution of a huge inheritance. Lord Peter's investigations lead him into deeper water than anyone expects and, when it becomes clear that the General was murdered, the list of suspects is long. - Director:
- Ronald Wilson
- Cast:
- Ian Carmichael, Terence Alexander, Anna Cropper
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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020)Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears
Glamorous lady detective Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis) returns in a cinematic sequel to the wildly popular television series 'Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries'. With her trademark wit, impeccable style, and trusty pearl-handled revolver, Phryne fights injustice on an international scale in this globe-trotting adventure. In 1929 Jerusalem, Phryne rescues a young Bedouin girl held captive after a village massacre and reunites her with her uncle at a stately English manor. But then a man claiming to have information for the girl is shot, leaving behind a mysterious pendant. Vowing to find the truth, Phryne enlists the help of handsome detective Jack Robinson (Nathan Page) to uncover priceless treasures, wartime secrets, and an ancient tomb bearing a terrible curse. - Director:
- Tony Tilse
- Cast:
- Essie Davis, Ashleigh Cummings, Rupert Penry-Jones
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Mortal Fear (1994)Robin Cook's 'Mortal Fear'
At the Collington Clinic, healthy patients are mysteriously dying. No one is more baffled than Jennifer Kessler, the Chief of Medical Staff, and her search for the truth behind the deaths leads her from the secretive corridors of a high-tech research lab to the gaudy stage of a seedy strip club and on through a terrifying maze of greed, corruption, fear and futuristic medicine. - Director:
- Larry Shaw
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- Joanna Kerns, Gregory Harrison, Max Gail
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Let others select the sleepwalking scene from Macbeth. When Miss Marple auditions for a spot in a repertory company, she lets rip with The Shooting of Dan McGrew! She gets the job (the manager thinks she has cash to invest in this floundering troupe), but she’s not giving up sleuthing for grease-paint and applause. She’s convinced one of her fellow actors is playing the part of murderer for real. - Director:
- George Pollock
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- Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Ron Moody
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Imagine your husband died suddenly and you found out he'd been having an affair. Would you want to know more? Could you bear to know more? When Kate Morris's (Liv Ullmann) husband Richard dies away from home, she soon realises that he's been having an affair with his young assistant Josie (Amanda Redmond). Now she must reconsider their whole life together. Did he really love her? Driven by an overwhelming desire to find out more about the affair, Kate confronts Josie - and soon finds that her feelings about Josie are a lot more complicated than simple hate. A lot more complicated. Intelligent, passionate and controversial (at the time) for its frank depiction of a lesbian relationship, Frederic Raphaels screen adaptation of his own novel for Southern Television is an unforgettable story with an unexpected and heartbreaking secret to reveal... - Director:
- Anthony Harvey
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- Liv Ullmann, Amanda Redman, Tim Pigott-Smith
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After just a year of marriage, the immaculate life Georgina (Julia Stiles) has quickly become intoxicated by is blown apart when her art collector husband Constantine is killed in an explosion aboard the yacht of a Russian oligarch. Believing there to be more to the tragedy, she sets out to uncover what happened. Dark truths about Constantine's dealings emerge and, as she begins to realise who she was really married to, Georgina enters a spiral of moral descent as she becomes immersed a world of lies, double-dealing and criminality. In order to maintain the Clios' legendary Cote d'Azur mansion and protect the family and its fortune, she will have to learn to adapt, survive and ultimately thrive in her dangerous new reality. But as she first proved back in her days as a fine art scholar in the US, she's an A-plus student... - Director:
- Hans Herbots
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- Julia Stiles, Iwan Rheon, Adrian Lester
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From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind the modern horror masterpiece 'The Witch', comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers (Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson) on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890's. As an approaching storm threatens to sweep them from the rock and strange apparitions emerge from the fog, each man begins to suspect that the other has become dangerously unmoored. - Director:
- Robert Eggers
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- Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman
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Adapted from the classic novel by Charles Dickens, 'The Personal History of David Copperfield' brings to life one of the author's most cherished characters. From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield (Dev Patel) is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all. - Director:
- Armando Iannucci
- Cast:
- Dev Patel, James Daniel Wilson, Hugh Laurie
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