The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: Series 1 (Speedy Death / Death at the Opera / Rising of the Moon / Laurels Are Poison / The Worsted Viper)
This free adaptation of Gladys Mitchell's classic crime novel Speedy Death as a vehicle for a full-blooded performance by Diana Rigg as the louche 1920s analyst Mrs. Bradley is a splendid piece of period drama with an intriguing puzzle at its heart. Mrs. Bradley attends the engagement party of her crippled goddaughter Eleanor, only to find the home of her old beau, Eleanor's father Bing (John Alderson), a hotbed of intrigue and sudden death. Eleanor's unsatisfactory fiancé Everard is found drowned in the bath after quarrelling with the former suitor whose bad driving crippled Eleanor; someone tries to shoot the fiancée of Eleanor's brother Gorde. Full of memorable characters like the sinister housekeeper Mrs. McNamara (Lynda Baron), Speedy Death is an impressive feature-length curtain-raiser to a popular series. For once, a detective has to investigate a crime where she has something seriously at stake--her sense of her own past and her own friends. --Roz Kaveney Binding DVD. Publisher(s): eOne Films. Label: eOne Films. AudienceRating: NR (Not Rated). Format: Box set. AspectRatio: 1.33:1.
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| Part Number: | 43190-482843 |
| Lowest Price (CAD): | $37.98 |
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| Brand : | WGBH Boston |
| Director : | Audrey Cooke |
| Distributor : | BBC |
| Starring : | Michael Troughton |
| Title : | Title J-M |
