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UK Mall 1 - Lord Peter Wimsey - The Nine Tailors [1974]
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Manufacturer: Acorn Media
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Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5036193002182
Format: PAL
Label: Acorn Media
Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Number Of Discs: 2
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Acorn Media
Release Date: 2001-07-02
Running Time: 208
Studio: Acorn Media
Theatrical Release Date: 1975-04-13
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Summary: He sent forth a raven
Comment: A young Lord Peter (Ian Carmichael) in uniform on his way to the war. He is standing in for his brother The Duke of Denver at a wedding. Mischief is afoot and an emerald necklace was pinched. Where it was stored for save keeping I can not say. It looks like the perpetrator was winged by a well placed shot. We get the inside story and know the truth.
All in the first chapter we see the crime and the fait of the perpetrators. We also get a first hand view of the meeting and growing relationship and Wimsey and Bunter (Glyn Houston.) As fait would have it Lord Peter finds him self once again in Fenchurch St. Pauli again. This time as providence would have it just in time to replace a sick bell ringer on New Year's Eve.
Three months later a body is found in and Lord Peter is invited to the inquest.
This film is based on a Dorothy L. Sayers novel of the same name with the screen adaptation by Anthony Steven.
At first you are not sure that this is the same peter Wimsey when you see the blond hair and mustache. However if you look close they made little attempt to cover the wrinkled face.
If you have an opportunity to view this film before reading the book you will not be distracted by the deviations and omit ions form the written story.
Customer Rating:
Summary: He sent forth a raven
Comment: A young Lord Peter (Ian Carmichael) in uniform on his way to the war. He is standing in for his brother The Duke of Denver at a wedding. Mischief is afoot and an emerald necklace was pinched. Where it was stored for save keeping I can not say. It looks like the perpetrator was winged by a well placed shot. We get the inside story and know the truth.
All in the first chapter we see the crime and the fait of the perpetrators. We also get a first hand view of the meeting and growing relationship and Wimsey and Bunter (Glyn Houston.) As fait would have it Lord Peter finds him self once again in Fenchurch St. Pauli again. This time as providence would have it just in time to replace a sick bell ringer on New Year's Eve.
Three months later a body is found in and Lord Peter is invited to the inquest.
This film is based on a Dorothy L. Sayers novel of the same name with the screen adaptation by Anthony Steven.
At first you are not sure that this is the same peter Wimsey when you see the blond hair and mustache. However if you look close they made little attempt to cover the wrinkled face.
If you have an opportunity to view this film before reading the book you will not be distracted by the deviations and omit ions form the written story.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Hard work but rewarding in the end
Comment: The plot of "The Nine Tailors" is based on the art of bellringing - yet for the first hour you would never know. It's fearfully slow (but remember that the production is 30 years old) and the quality is not brilliant but if you reduce the contrast on your tv a little it might well be much more watchable. Once you get past the first hour (you can't skip it because the background is essential) things do warm up a little and the plot trots along at a more reasonable pace. Besides a portrayal of asects of English life in long gone and irrecoverable days, the film contains some wonderful old motor cars and interesting sidelights on bellringing. (There is one glaring error in the New Year's Eve section which any self respecting bellringer will readily spot.) If you like old things and easy paced drama, or have ever been a campanologist, give it a try. If you are addicted to modern, fast and racy drama with guns and car chases, it won't be for you. I wish I could honestly give it more than 3 stars but the quality of the DVD and the slow pace of the plot preclude this.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Unbearably poor quality
Comment: I wish I could comment on the merits of this dramatization in terms of cast, screenplay etc. However, I never made it past the first 30 seconds or so because of the intolerably poor quality of the DVD. Not only is everything quite blurred, giving you the impression of watching a bootleg video rather than a DVD, but the frames "jump" so that there is no smooth transition from one frame to another. Rather, it looks more like a fast sequence of stills. It's most irritating to the eye (and brain) and in fact intolerable.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Flawed, But Enchanting
Comment: Watching the first hour of this four hour serial I felt rather dismayed & I might not have stuck wih it if it weren't for the fact I'd gone and paid good money for the thing. I'm very glad I did though, because after a shaky start it turned into a very rewarding experience. I've always loved The Nine Tailors, family tragedy, missing emeralds, World War I, bell ringing, unidentifiable corpses, dodgy sluice gates, devastating floods and all; and this is an excellent dramatisation of the story, giving a real feel of the terrifying mysteries of gems, bells and floodland. Unfortunately the first episode, which mainly concentrates on the neccessary back story, is a bit too much to swallow, actually Changing The Story (Hiss!) in several aggravatingly pointless ways. The most infuriating of which is when the history of Lord Peter's relationship with Bunter is changed from the original poignant story of the devoted Bunter nurturing back to life the battle-scarred, shell-shocked and guilt-wracked Lord Peter, devastated by the horrors of the Great War, to a jolly (stupid) little tale of Wimsey needing a new man because his current one's too old. Add to that the fact that Ian Charmichael looks about ten years to old to play Wimsey in 1934 and is simply unbelievable in the first episode where this solid late middle aged man is supposed to be a gallant young stripling off to join his regiment in 1914... I mean, I know suspension of disbelief is a necessary requirement for a theatrical audience, but some leaps are simply too long for the imagination. However, once the first episode has been got out of the way, the subsequent three hours are a joy, sticking closely to the original story and sensitively dramatised. I hesitate to say too much, this is a mystery after all, but I can assure you that all the best moments are there: the record-setting nine-hour kent triple bob bell ring, the terrible flood and the sanctuary in the church... plus many more that I dare not mention for fear of spoiling anyone's fun. And the film on this DVD is certainly fun. I'm not quite certain whether the extras are really worth anyone's time, though I suppose if people truly know nothing about Dorothy Sayers the info on her will be of use, and I suppose the filmographies and interview with Carmichael are quite interesting. The triva game is a good idea, but ten questions is a bit too short to be much fun: just when you are getting into the swing of it, it's over. But it was a nice try at enhanced value, I'll say that for it. Hopefully they will release more of these seventies vintage Wimsey dramas onto DVD, I'll certainly buy them if they do, and maybe next time they'll have thought up something more rigourous by way of a trivia quiz!
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Summary: He sent forth a raven
Comment: A young Lord Peter (Ian Carmichael) in uniform on his way to the war. He is standing in for his brother The Duke of Denver at a wedding. Mischief is afoot and an emerald necklace was pinched. Where it was stored for save keeping I can not say. It looks like the perpetrator was winged by a well placed shot. We get the inside story and know the truth.
All in the first chapter we see the crime and the fait of the perpetrators. We also get a first hand view of the meeting and growing relationship and Wimsey and Bunter (Glyn Houston.) As fait would have it Lord Peter finds him self once again in Fenchurch St. Pauli again. This time as providence would have it just in time to replace a sick bell ringer on New Year's Eve.
Three months later a body is found in and Lord Peter is invited to the inquest.
This film is based on a Dorothy L. Sayers novel of the same name with the screen adaptation by Anthony Steven.
At first you are not sure that this is the same peter Wimsey when you see the blond hair and mustache. However if you look close they made little attempt to cover the wrinkled face.
If you have an opportunity to view this film before reading the book you will not be distracted by the deviations and omit ions form the written story.
Customer Rating:
Summary: He sent forth a raven
Comment: A young Lord Peter (Ian Carmichael) in uniform on his way to the war. He is standing in for his brother The Duke of Denver at a wedding. Mischief is afoot and an emerald necklace was pinched. Where it was stored for save keeping I can not say. It looks like the perpetrator was winged by a well placed shot. We get the inside story and know the truth.
All in the first chapter we see the crime and the fait of the perpetrators. We also get a first hand view of the meeting and growing relationship and Wimsey and Bunter (Glyn Houston.) As fait would have it Lord Peter finds him self once again in Fenchurch St. Pauli again. This time as providence would have it just in time to replace a sick bell ringer on New Year's Eve.
Three months later a body is found in and Lord Peter is invited to the inquest.
This film is based on a Dorothy L. Sayers novel of the same name with the screen adaptation by Anthony Steven.
At first you are not sure that this is the same peter Wimsey when you see the blond hair and mustache. However if you look close they made little attempt to cover the wrinkled face.
If you have an opportunity to view this film before reading the book you will not be distracted by the deviations and omit ions form the written story.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Hard work but rewarding in the end
Comment: The plot of "The Nine Tailors" is based on the art of bellringing - yet for the first hour you would never know. It's fearfully slow (but remember that the production is 30 years old) and the quality is not brilliant but if you reduce the contrast on your tv a little it might well be much more watchable. Once you get past the first hour (you can't skip it because the background is essential) things do warm up a little and the plot trots along at a more reasonable pace. Besides a portrayal of asects of English life in long gone and irrecoverable days, the film contains some wonderful old motor cars and interesting sidelights on bellringing. (There is one glaring error in the New Year's Eve section which any self respecting bellringer will readily spot.) If you like old things and easy paced drama, or have ever been a campanologist, give it a try. If you are addicted to modern, fast and racy drama with guns and car chases, it won't be for you. I wish I could honestly give it more than 3 stars but the quality of the DVD and the slow pace of the plot preclude this.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Unbearably poor quality
Comment: I wish I could comment on the merits of this dramatization in terms of cast, screenplay etc. However, I never made it past the first 30 seconds or so because of the intolerably poor quality of the DVD. Not only is everything quite blurred, giving you the impression of watching a bootleg video rather than a DVD, but the frames "jump" so that there is no smooth transition from one frame to another. Rather, it looks more like a fast sequence of stills. It's most irritating to the eye (and brain) and in fact intolerable.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Flawed, But Enchanting
Comment: Watching the first hour of this four hour serial I felt rather dismayed & I might not have stuck wih it if it weren't for the fact I'd gone and paid good money for the thing. I'm very glad I did though, because after a shaky start it turned into a very rewarding experience. I've always loved The Nine Tailors, family tragedy, missing emeralds, World War I, bell ringing, unidentifiable corpses, dodgy sluice gates, devastating floods and all; and this is an excellent dramatisation of the story, giving a real feel of the terrifying mysteries of gems, bells and floodland. Unfortunately the first episode, which mainly concentrates on the neccessary back story, is a bit too much to swallow, actually Changing The Story (Hiss!) in several aggravatingly pointless ways. The most infuriating of which is when the history of Lord Peter's relationship with Bunter is changed from the original poignant story of the devoted Bunter nurturing back to life the battle-scarred, shell-shocked and guilt-wracked Lord Peter, devastated by the horrors of the Great War, to a jolly (stupid) little tale of Wimsey needing a new man because his current one's too old. Add to that the fact that Ian Charmichael looks about ten years to old to play Wimsey in 1934 and is simply unbelievable in the first episode where this solid late middle aged man is supposed to be a gallant young stripling off to join his regiment in 1914... I mean, I know suspension of disbelief is a necessary requirement for a theatrical audience, but some leaps are simply too long for the imagination. However, once the first episode has been got out of the way, the subsequent three hours are a joy, sticking closely to the original story and sensitively dramatised. I hesitate to say too much, this is a mystery after all, but I can assure you that all the best moments are there: the record-setting nine-hour kent triple bob bell ring, the terrible flood and the sanctuary in the church... plus many more that I dare not mention for fear of spoiling anyone's fun. And the film on this DVD is certainly fun. I'm not quite certain whether the extras are really worth anyone's time, though I suppose if people truly know nothing about Dorothy Sayers the info on her will be of use, and I suppose the filmographies and interview with Carmichael are quite interesting. The triva game is a good idea, but ten questions is a bit too short to be much fun: just when you are getting into the swing of it, it's over. But it was a nice try at enhanced value, I'll say that for it. Hopefully they will release more of these seventies vintage Wimsey dramas onto DVD, I'll certainly buy them if they do, and maybe next time they'll have thought up something more rigourous by way of a trivia quiz!
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