Campion:Police at the Funeral
In Police at the Funeral, Margery Allingham's genial but impishly morbid sleuth, Albert Campion (Peter Davison, a former Doctor Who), accompanied by his ex-burglar manservant Lugg (Brian Glover), investigates a murder among an upper-crust family of bickering middle-aged siblings and their imperious mother. Allingham's series, set in 1930s England, has a slippery tone--some mysteries seem to view the class system with blithe reverence; Police at the Funeral treats the wealthy, aimless siblings as near-idiots, all waiting for the death of their fearsome mother, who's the only one with any wit or fiber. The Campion stories are less about whodunnit than howdunnit--the roundabout plots feature improbable killings that poke fun at the conventions of murder mysteries, while simultaneously providing all the comfortable pleasures of the genre. Meanwhile, a cast of fine British thespians sink their teeth into Allingham's gloriously eccentric characters. --Bret Fetzer Binding DVD. Publisher(s): BBC Home Entertainment. Label: BBC Home Entertainment. AudienceRating: NR (Not Rated). Format: Closed-captioned. AspectRatio: 1.33:1.
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| Lowest Price (CAD): | $69.78 |
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| Brand : | BBC Warner |
| Closed Captioned : | No |
| Collector's Edition : | No |
| Director : | Ronald Wilson |
| Director's Cut : | No |
| Distributor : | Warner Home Video |
| Film Rating : | NR (Not Rated) |
| Format : | DVD |
| Language : | English |
| Movie Aspect Ratio : | Full Screen |
| Number of Discs : | One |
| Original Release Date : | 1989 |
| Release Date : | May 2003 |
| Starring : | John Franklyn-Robbins |
| Title : | Title C-E |
| Unedited Version : | No |
