P.D. James - A Taste for Death
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Actor: Avril Elgar, Fiona Fullerton, Penny Downie, Roy Marsden, Wendy HillerBrand: Koch International
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Content/Copy-Protected CD, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 289 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: KOCH VISION
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- This miniseries is adapted from P.D. James's popular novel of the same name and features Commander Adam Dalgliesh, the popular protagonist from many of James's previous books. Here, Dalgliesh has just finished getting Scotland Yard's Sensitive Crime Squad up and running when he is selected to investigate the mysterious and deadly world that lurks behind Government Minister Sir Paul Ber
Movie Reviews of P.D. James - A Taste for Death
Movie Review: Among the Best in the Series
Summary: 5 Stars
What a joy once more to see the late Wendy Hiller at work. Superbly. Her role is central to this adaptation of the novel by P.D. James which also features the most humane, Dalgleish to date. In fact, all the key supporting characters do a superior job. As in all the adaptations of James, no TV version of less than ten or twenty episode length could begin to capture all the complexity of character and plot line. Particularly puzzling is the motivation for the action and death of, well, I guess I can't say without giving away aspects of the denouement, suffice to say that the average viewer who has not read the book will have their problems which, hopefully, will not mar their enjoyment of a good television drama. Surprisingly, there is a bit of slam-bang police action not commonly found in the series and, surprisingly as well, though not absent from all entries in the series, a flash of almost total nudity. I believe this is the last of the longer form for the adaptations; following this one, at least, the remainder are shorter.
I commend the episode to all followers of the, more or less, contemporary British television mystery, although it still, mostly eschews the gritty police procedurals so popular today.
Summary of P.D. James - A Taste for Death
When threatening letters arrive at his fashionable London home, prominent Government Minister Sir Paul Berowne calls his old friend Adam Dalgliesh for assistance.Berowne?s own household is a challenge. His exquisite wife makes no secret of her adulterous affair with a fashionable surgeon. His only daughter, deeply involved in left-wing politics, has rejected her Conservative father. He is even resented by his own, strong-willed mother, whose favored son was killed in an IRA terrorist ambush.
Dalgliesh has barely started on the case when a series of bizarre deaths turn the informal investigation into an urgent assignment.
With characteristic determination Scotland Yard?s enigmatic star detective pursues every possibility, ruthlessly exposing dark secrets and ugly emotions as the case proceeds toward its terrifying and bloody conclusion.
Stars Roy Marsden, Dame Wendy Hiller, Simon Ward, Fiona Fullerton and Penny Downie
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