P.D. James - The Essential Collection
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Actor: Roy MarsdenDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, Content/Copy-Protected CD, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1765 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: KOCH VISION
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Movie Review: "P.D. James - Essential Collection ... Roy Marsden as Cmdr Adam Dalgliesh ... Koch Vision"
Summary: 5 Stars
Koch Vision present - "P.D. James - The Essential Collection" - Roy Marsden as Cmdr Adam Dalgliesh - (1765 mins/Color) (Dolby Digital) --- Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park OBE ), an English writer of crime fiction and member of the House of Lords, who writes as P. D. James ... It has been noted by many critics that James has upgraded and expanded the entire genre of mystery writing; and that many of her books, especially the police procedurals starring Dalgliesh, the poetry writing detective, fit the mainstream novel criteria as much as they do the detective genre ... James' strengths are characterization and her ability to construct atmosphere and stories rich in detail ... James did not begin writing until she reached her thirties ... "Her first novel, Cover Her Face", featuring the investigator/poet Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard, was published in 1962 ... James retired in 1979 to devote herself to her writing ... She has said that her influences include Jane Austen, Dorothy L. Sayers, herself a well-known British author of mysteries, Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh.
Adam Dalgliesh is a fictional character who has been the protagonist of thirteen mystery novels by P. D. James. Dalgliesh first appeared in James' 1962 novel Cover Her Face, and has appeared in most of James' subsequent novels... Dalgliesh, who holds the high position of Commander in the Metropolitan Police Service at New Scotland Yard in London, is an intensely cerebral and private person ... He writes poetry, a fact which his colleagues are fond of reminding him. Several volumes of his poetry have been published ... Dalgliesh lives in a flat above the Thames at Queenhithe in the City of London and drives a Jaguar.
Entire collection is a must have inclusive over 29 Hours Of Heart Stopping Suspense and up to the last reel of who done its.
1. Death of an Expert Witness
2. Shroud for a Nightingale
3. Cover Her Face
4. The Black Tower
5. A Taste for Death
6. Unnatural Causes,
7. A Mind To Murder
8. Original Sin
Not your usual suspects from the diabolical to the macabre, this "essential collection" presents eight critically acclaimed P.D. James film adaptations ... each starring Roy Marsden in a compelling Adam Dalgliesh Mystery.
BIOS:
1. Roy Marsden
Date of birth: 25 June 1941 - Stepney, London, England, UK
Date of death: Still Living
2. P.D. James (aka: Phyllis Dorothy James)
Date of birth: 3 August 1920 - Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Date of death: Still Living
Great job by Koch Vision for releasing "P.D. James - The Essential Collection" - Roy Marsden, the digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more high quality releases from the foreign film market --- order your copy now from Amazon or Koch Vision where there are plenty of copies available on DVD, stay tuned once again for top notch drama mixed with an outstanding cast and director --- Mystery Classics, all my heroes have been film detectives!
Total Time: 1765 mins on DVD ~ Koch Vision KOCV #6612 ~ (6/07/2005)
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