The Singing Detective
by Jon Amiel
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Actor: David Ryall, Joanne Whalley, Lyndon Davies, Michael Gambon, Patrick MalahideDirector: Jon Amiel
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 450 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-04-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
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Movie Review: Original BBC Series: The Singing Detective
Summary: 5 Stars
This is magical work. It reeks of originality & excellence. British humor has its own reason for being. Michael Gambon is just flat superb! The original writer Potter is no longer with us - what a pity! It is a combo of suspense, wit, pathos all rolled into one. I did not see the movie with Robert Downey Jr. I could not bear to make a comparison to this gem of a production.
Summary of The Singing Detective
A gripping murder mystery. A lavish musical. An intense psychological thriller. A warped romance. Dennis Potter's legendary award-winning mini-series is all this and more. Hailed by the Chicago Sun Times as "The greatest production in the history of television" this genre-deying masterpiece is soon to be a major motion picture starring Robert Downey Jr. and Mel Gibson.Running Time: 415 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?MUSICALS/MUSICALS Rating:?NR UPC:?794051169921The late Dennis Potter was a master at mining the popular songs of the 1930s and '40s for dramatic effect, but he never did it better than in this British miniseries starring the inestimable Michael Gambon. Gambon plays a mystery writer named Philip E. Marlow, who is suffering a torturous bout of psoriatic arthritis in a British hospital, where he is a victim of both his disease and the national health plan. Unable to move without pain, he escapes into his imagination, plotting out a murder tale in which he is both a big-band singer and a private eye. But Potter and director Jon Amiel also mix in flashbacks of Marlow's youth and his unhappy marriage to explain how the real Marlow reached this sorry pass. Flawlessly, intricately, kaleidoscopically assembled, the six one-hour episodes of this British miniseries fly by like some fantastic fever dream. --Marshall Fine
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