Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries (The Lord Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane Collection - Strong Poison / Have His Carcass / Gaudy Night)
by Christopher Hodson, Michael Simpson
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Actor: Dilys Hamlett, Edward Petherbridge, Harriet Walter, Richard Morant, Sheila BurrellDirector: Christopher Hodson, Michael Simpson
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Editor: Masahiro Hirakubo
Producer: Michael Chapman
Producer: Rebecca Eaton
Writer: Dorothy L. Sayers
Writer: Philip Broadley
Writer: Rosemary Anne Sisson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 500 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Video
Product features:
- Three elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers which chronicle the relationship of amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane unfolds in a realm of romance and intrigue. Includes the mysteries: "Strong Poison," "Have His Carcass" and "Gaudy Night."Running Time: 513 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating:?NR Age:?79405
DVD Reviews of Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries (The Lord Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane Collection - Strong Poison / Have His Carcass / Gaudy Night)
DVD Review: The ultimate Lord Peter...
Summary: 5 Stars
Three wonderful DVDs bring Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane to life. Strong Poison and Have His Carcase are the best of the set; the script/editing in Gaudy Night make this one a little slow-paced and lacking in focus. The actors are perfectly cast, however; if only they had made Busman's Honeymoon, my joy would be complete!DVD Review: Wondeful Vintage Crime
Summary: 5 Stars
This is real vintage English crime. A much gentler form of the genre than we see currently on television and movies. No blood and guts but much deduction. Anyone who enjoys the Dorothy Sayers books or indeed any of the English crime writers of the 1930's and 1940's will appreciate these stories. If you have a short attention span or require constant action these are not for youDVD Review: Gaudy Night DVD
Summary: 3 Stars
While many loyal PBS Mystery fans wait in desperation for quality interpretations of Christie, Sayers, etc., novels, if producers are going to film them, they should do justice to the books, and then when PBS sells the tapes/CD's, they should be the full-length version.
VERY DISAPPOINTING that a crucial scene, the purchase and ultimate destruction of a chess set, was omitted from the tape.
Thoses scenes are paramount catalysts in the relationship between Lord Peter and Harriet Vane. I could not believe that it was deleted!
Also, if "they" are going to produce the works of Agatha Christie, don't chop them up and squeeze them into a ridiculous ninety minutes.
Cat Among the Pigeons was one of my favorite Christie's, and the recent version was ridiculous. There was a much better version years ago and I cannot locate it.
I don't know why PBS cannot seem to realize that there is a vast audience for (Masterpiece) Mystery! Is there no real vision by the Powers That Be?
Better than nothing, but it's a mystery to me why we get shortcut versions. They need to be two hours in length in order to do justice to the great works. They will say, of course, money...but I think other genres are simply favored by the decision makers.
DVD Review: Do You love Harriet?
Summary: 3 Stars
The first two series/films are very good, but the most important one for Harriet and Peter, Gaudy Night is a disaster. Everything that was good in the book has been removed. And the woman playing Harriet has a way too high a voice!DVD Review: A FINE ACHIEVEMENT WHICH STANDS ON ITS OWN FEET
Summary: 5 Stars
Yes, yet another review is to add to the glut in the market but I do exercise my right to cheer on the team that made this series. All three show the mark of a high degree of professionalism in television technique, all three are most enjoyable. To some degree, I found Gaudy Night special due to the characterization of the faculty and some of the students of an experiment in British elite education, an Oxford college for women staffed by faculty women. While there was no time allowed for elaborate characterizations, the script and the actresses made the most of the time they had to draw an interesting portrait.
Two more general comments: when one makes a film, TV play or stage production one is bound by the demands of these media and not of the book from which one may be drawing. Reading material and viewing material are vastly different in inherent qualities; to expect a television play to be true to a book is to set an unreal goal which should not be met. No better example can be offered than what Hitchcock did with John Buchan's classic adventure story, The 39 Steps. Make the comparison yourself. Both are still living documents. I feel the same with regard to different productions relating to the same characters. There is no way to try to make an Ian Carmichael production without Ian Carmichael. Happily, the two leads here were not asked to duplicate past performances of Lord Peter or Harriet Vane. (Among others were Haunted Honeymoon (U.S. title) with Robert Montgomery and Constance Cummings which I liked because Robert Montgomery could do no wrong in my book but, apparently, and with justice, Sayers could not stand.)
So, overall, I will cast my vote with those who found the series a first rate entertainment.
Description of Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries (The Lord Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane Collection - Strong Poison / Have His Carcass / Gaudy Night)
Three elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers which chronicle the relationship of amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane unfolds in a realm of romance and intrigue. Includes the mysteries: "Strong Poison," "Have His Carcass" and "Gaudy Night."Three Dorothy L. Sayers mysteries involving amateur sleuth extraordinaire Lord Peter Wimsey and the lovely Harriet Vane are realized to perfection in these 1987 BBC adaptations. In Strong Poison, Harriet (Harriet Walter) is on trial for murder. Lord Peter (Edward Petherbridge) becomes enchanted by her and decides she cannot possibly be guilty. What follows are the twin stories of Lord Peter's search to find the real killer and his romantic pursuit of Harriet. Both are charming. As always, Sayers has plotted her story brilliantly, with a satisfying mystery and a sly comic touch (a gentle poke at the spiritualist movement is particularly fun). The period atmosphere is pulled off naturally and with close attention to detail, and the adaptation has a careful reverence for Sayers's novel. The performances are all remarkably strong. Petherbridge is perfect as Wimsey, revealing his brilliance and allowing him to be hopelessly in love without ever damaging his dignity. Walter plays Harriet with rich nuance, saying as much with her silences as she does with her lines, and Richard Morant is quietly fantastic as the remarkable Bunting.
Harriet, fresh from the trial, tries to get away from it all and ends up stumbling over a recently killed body in Have His Carcass. Unable to resist a crime (or, for that matter, Harriet), Lord Peter is soon on the case. In Gaudy Night, Lord Peter is still proposing at frequent intervals, and Harriet, though unable to say yes, is also unable to send Lord Peter entirely away. But enough with the romance. As Wimsey heads off for some foreign service work, Harriet visits her Oxford alma mater and lands smack in the middle of a poison-pen scandal. Harriet's status as a mystery writer, naturally, means she's the one who should investigate. Sayers clearly had fun writing this one, using Harriet to gently tweak her own profession, at the same time both parodying and defending the cloistered life at a women's college. --Ali Davis
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