Thriller - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Timothy West, Neil Morrissey, Tara Fitzgerald, Annette Crosbie, Pauline Quirke, Rob Brydon, Denise Van Outen, John Thomson, Kevin Whately, David Suchet
Production Year: 2002 - Thriller - Director: Bharat Nalluri, Rob Bailey, Andy Wilson - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Lisa Faulkner
Advantages: Fascinating case, Fuhrman is a really interesting guy Disadvantages: Plodding and unconvicing film
's research proved successful, and they were able to find the culprit from the original murder, a very neat solution to a long unsolved crime.
The film stars Christopher Meloni, who may be better known for the TV series Oz, Robert Forster, whom I've never heard of, but I thought was relatively convincing in the film, and has apparently been nominated in the past for an oscar.
The film also starred Maggie Grace, who appeared in many episodes of the TV series Lost, and also in the rather more forgettable film, The Fog. Also in the film was the actor Jon Foster, who had featured in the TV series Windfall.
I found the film itself to be based on a very interesting storyline, but the film felt very plodding and low on production quality. I think that this was for two reasons, one is that the film was really intended to be aired straight on TV, so ...
Advantages: Witty, atmospheric and great plot. Disadvantages: Set in public school.
Former spy Geroge Smiley is enjoying his retirement, doing, as he describes rather self consciously, just 'a little resesarch on seventeenth century Germany'. No longer is he an intelligence agent, fighting the Cold War. Miss Ailsa Brimley, a former employee of the same service during World War II, is now Editor of 'The Voice', a religous magazine with a small but faithful body of readers.
In her dual role of Agony Aunt at the magazine, sShe receives a letter from a respected subscriber, claiming that her husband is planning to murder her; Miss Brimley does not bin the letter, but talks it over with her old contact, Smiley. The author of the letter, Stella Rode, is the wife of Stanley, the first schoolmaster at Carne public school to come from a grammar school background.
As Carne is a highly respectable instution, with a long ...
Advantages: Excellent Direction, Brilliant performance by lead characters, superb story line. Disadvantages: None really.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
?Dial M for Murder? is a 1954 crime-thriller movie directed by the talented and legendary director Alfred Hitchcock and based on a stage play with the same name. British playwright Fredrick Knott wrote both the stage play and the script of this movie. The story of this movie revolves around married couple, where the jealous and villainous husband tries to kill his wife.
LEAD CHARACTERS
##Grace Kelly plays the role of Margot Wendice(a rich and aristocrat woman married to Tony Wendice, was romantically involved with Mark. )
##Ray Milland plays the role of Tony Wendice (An ex professional tennis player, husband of Margot and has a business of selling sports equipments)
##Robert Cummings plays the role of Mark Halliday (An American mystery writer and used have an extra-marital affair with Margot Wendice ...
When George Smiley receives a mysterious letter from Stella Rode, a teacher's wife at Carne School, intimating that her husband is out to murder her, he decides to phone the school... only to find that Stella was killed the previous evening. Based on a novel by John Le Carre.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
METRODOME DISTRIBUTION; DELUXE VIDEO SERVICE - METRODOME
Release date
19/07/2004
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
MTD 5153
Barcode
5055002551536
Author
John Le Carre
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Aspect Ratio
4:3
DVD Description
The British class system is under fire in this adaptation of John Le Carre's novel. One-time spy master George Smiley (Denholm Elliott) is called in to investigate the murder of Stella Strode, a schoolteacher's wife at a public school. She had predicted her own death in a letter to a friend. Encountering snobbery and slippery alibis at every turn, Smiley must figure out which attitudes and lies are relevant to the facts of the case. Elliott is excellent in the role of Smiley (most famously played by Alec Guinness in other Le Carre adaptations) and also features Glenda Jackson and a young Christian Bale.
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