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Director:
Rodney Bennett
Writers:
Bill Craig (adapted by)Dorothy L. Sayers (novel)
Genre:
Mystery more
Plot Summary:
When one of the copy writers of Pym's Advertising Agency meets his death by falling down a spiral staircase...
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Plot Keywords:
Advertising
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Based On Novel
User Comments:
Welcome back after 27 years!
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(Cast overview, first billed only)Ian Carmichael ... Lord Peter WimseyMark Eden ... Chief Inspector ParkerRachel Herbert ... Lady MaryPeter Pratt ... Mr. PymRobin Bailey ... Mr. ArmstrongJohn Hallam ... Mr. InglebyFiona Walker ... Miss MeteyardChristopher Timothy ... Mr. WillisPaul Darrow ... Mr. TallboyShirley Cain ... Miss RossiterCaroline Dowdeswell ... Miss PartonConnie Merigold ... Mrs. CrumpSpencer Banks ... Ginger JoeRobert Hamilton ... Victor DeanGwen Taylor ... Pamela Deanmore
Also Known As:Lord Peter Wimsey: Murder Must Advertise
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Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
MOVIEmeter:
9% since last week
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Company:
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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Quotes:
Lord Peter Wimsey:
How's my nephew, Polly?
Lady Mary:
Sulking. He cannot understand why his namesake is in here going on about detecting, when his nephew is so much more interesting.
Lord Peter Wimsey:
I frequently wonder the same thing.
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Movie Connections:
Follows "The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club" (1972) (mini)
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Welcome back after 27 years!, 4 August 2000
Author:
frank behrens (behrens@top.monad.net) from Keene, NH
It took only a quarter century to catch up with Lord Peter Wimsey:
Murder Must Advertise and I am eternally grateful to Acorn Media for
making it available, along with "Clouds of Witness" and "The
Unpleasantness
at the Bellona Club." Yes, "Five Red Herrings" and "The Nine Tailors" are
due soon.Having read the book several times, I can say that the dramatization is
not only faithful to the plot but also to the comic tone of the original.
Sayers herself did work in an advertising agency and she perfectly catches
the chaos, the frustrations, and the high spirits that pervade such an
establishment.Even more on video than in the novel is each character fully realized.
When Wimsey (working under an alias) first enters the secretaries' room,
the
more flamboyant of the women (played by Fiona Walker) is found coffee cup
high in the air and sheet of advertising copy low in hand, thereby
establishing her character perfectly. She can also quote Latin tags and
Shakespeare with colloquial ease.The stuffy head of the firm, Mr. Pym,
is
played by Peter Pratt, well known to Gilbert & Sullivan buffs as the comic
lead at the D'Oyly Carte several generations ago.The ubiquitous Peter Bowles plays the villainous Major Milligan as a
dope
dealer to the "bright young things" who still knows when to apologize for
rudeness. Mark Eden continues his role as Chief Inspector Parker, now
Wimsey's brother-in-law since marrying into the family after the "Clouds
of
Witness" case. If I cannot warm up to Lady Mary (Rachel Herbert), it is
perhaps because of her smugness that tries to be charming but (for me)
just
misses.Possibly the best realized character is Bridget Armstrong's Dian de
Momerie, the fading sexpot who knows she is doomed by her associates, her
drug taking, and the ravages of time. Armstrong turns what could have been
an utterly cliched role into a sympathetic and believable
one.And of course, Ian Carmichael is the same bubbling amateur sleuth of
the
first two mysteries, always ready to apologize for forgetting he has
advantages over most of the others.The plot combines a simple whodunit with a complex howsitdun; and if
you
pay close attention to the most seemingly inconsequential lines in the
first
episodes, you will appreciate all the more the solution in the last one. I
will reveal none of the plot here, except to say it is a lot of
fun.The production budget is below that of the Poirot series, but the
period
feel is just as good. By the way, when Wimsey (in disguise) is compared
with
Bertie Wooster, the script writer might be indulging in an inside joke:
Ian
Carmichael did play Wooster in a series on British TV and that association
nearly cost him getting Wimsey after he himself suggested it to the powers
that be!
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