Hamish MacBeth: Series 1-3 Collection
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Actor: Robert CarlyleBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 936 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: E4144
Studio: BBC Worldwide
Product features:
- Now together in one collector's set, all three seasons of Hamish Macbeth, the quirky award-winning series starring Robert Carlyle! Before his breakout performances in Trainspotting and The Full Monty, Robert Carlyle starred as Police Constable Hamish Macbeth, who finds himself transferred from his Glasgow beat to the village of Lochdubh, a town where the strangeness of the villagers is exceeded on
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Movie Review: WONDERFUL!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read each one of the Hamish Macbeth mysteries by M.C. Beaton, and just finished the last of the television series. It's true that the books are quite different from the show (to start with, Hamish is tall and red-haired in the books, whereas on television he is played by short and dark-haired Robert Carlyle), but trying to say which is better is like comparing apples and oranges. You just have to accept that each portrays a somewhat quite different fictional universe with its own cast of characters, and then you should have no trouble enjoying both. I just LOVED this television series and wish it had lasted longer. That said, they wrapped it up in a very satisfying way. The best parts for me involved the ongoing love triangle between the title character and the two rivals for his affection, Alex and Isobel. Alex is clearly based on Priscilla in the books, and Isobel shares an occupation, at least, with Elspeth Grant the journalist. They're both played by strikingly lovely actresses, but Shirley Henderson played Isobel Sutherland with such tender vulnerability and depth of feeling that I could not help but root for her throughout. This series deserves a much wider audience and I hope that one day the BBC will re-release it, this time with subtitles. The accents aren't as thick as they might have been, but there were key moments when I simply could not understand what the characters were saying, and with dialogue and characterizations this good I did not want to miss a drop! It is an odd yet thorougly pleasing blend of comedy and drama, with elements of surrealism and most of all, a terrific love story! Get it and watch it at all costs!
Summary of Hamish MacBeth: Series 1-3 Collection
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