The Ruth Rendell Mysteries - Set 3
by Bill Hays, Jan Sargent, Mary McMurray
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Actor: Camille Coduri, Christopher Ravenscroft, George Baker, Ian Fitzgibbon, Paola DionisottiDirector: Bill Hays, Jan Sargent, Mary McMurray
Brand: Acorn
Writer: Geoffrey Case
Writer: John Davies
Writer: Roger Marshall
Writer: Ruth Rendell
Writer: Trevor Preston
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 460 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Acorn Media
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DVD Review: Unsettling, Twisted Suspense
Summary: 4 Stars
"The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Set 3,"is the latest installment of the popular British mystery television series, based on the work of Rendell, an English master of the twisted suspense thriller. It presents us five new psychological crime dramas based on the author's best-selling, bounteous, award-winning fiction, including one based on her Harm Done - An Inspector Wexford Mystery. The series, made by Granada TV for Britain's Independent Television (ITV), was broadcast here, in syndication, on public television in the late 1990s. But a warning note: there are no subtitles, and Rendell's well-bred characters speak softly.
The episodes are:
"Going Wrong."Guy (James Callis--Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5;Bridget Jones's Diary); and Leonora (Josephine Butler) are wild teenagers, and she makes promises. But life doesn't work that way, does it, and handsome Guy, who's made himself rich in the interval, just can't accept it. He goes too far. The longest of the episodes, at nearly three hours, and slow on its feet.
"Harm Done." Detective Chief Inspector Wexford (George Baker), a man of few words, has his hands brim-full. A pedophile has returned to town (from prison) to live with his-- the pedophile's -- daughter, on a roiled-up council estate. Also,there's an odd series of abductions of teenagers, returned unharmed. And a wealthy couple's toddler daughter has disappeared from her bedroom. About an hour and a half long.
"The Fallen Curtain." Based on an Edgar-award winning short story. Teenager Richard Clayton (Ben Brazier) remains strangely haunted by a few unaccounted-for hours when he went missing as a boy. Barbara Ewing costars as his mother, whose hysterical reaction is no help. A bit less than an hour long.
"The Lake of Darkness." The book on which it's based (The Lake of Darkness)won an Arts Council National Book Award. This is the most fully-realized of the episodes, at a bit more than an hour and a half long, and it's value-packed. Good acting, shocking turns of plot. Boring bisexual accountant Martin Urban (Jerome Flynn) can't believe his luck: he's won the lottery, and met the beautiful, mysterious Francesca (Sadie Frost, An Ideal Husband) at virtually the same time. But luck always turns, doesn't it, especially in Ruth Rendell's work.
"You Can't Be Too Careful." A rather light-weight, short, two-character study. A security-obsessed woman (Serena Evans) takes on a new flatmate (Jane Hazlegrove) from the office. She shouldn't have: these are two women who were never meant to live together.
By and large, Rendell's works are unsettling; she knows how to ratchet up suspense, and they end up in places you never expected. Furthermore, these scripts appear to be fairly faithful to their origins. The author's work is, perhaps, an acquired taste; but one that lots of readers and viewers have acquired.
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