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Monday, October 31, 2011

More Cracker Mysteries [VHS]

More Cracker
More Cracker Mysteries [VHS]
Robbie Coltrane (Actor), Geraldine Somerville (Actor), Charles McDougall (Director), Jean Stewart (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
5.0 out of 5 stars(1)

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Robbie Coltrane returns as Fitz--the forensic psychologist whose professional brilliance is matched only by his personal difficulties--in this all-new set of highly-acclaimed, feature-length Cracker Mysteries.

Drama. Collector's boxed set of 3 videos, approx. 50 mins. each. Read more


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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Touching Evil 2 (Box Set) [VHS]

Touching Evil
Touching Evil 2 (Box Set) [VHS]
Robson Green (Actor), Nicola Walker (Actor) | Format: VHS Tape
4.9 out of 5 stars(8)

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Maverick Detective Inspector Dave Creegan (Robson Green, Reckless) and his partner D.I. Susan Taylor (Nicola Walker, Four Weddings and a Funeral) are on the case in three darkly tinged mysteries.

This time out, Creegan, Taylor and the Organized and Serial Crime Unit have their hands full with some deeply disturbed criminals. One is a serial kidnapper-murderer whose fatal fascination with young women leaves Creegan with a new scar to bear. Another is a profoundly disturbed relief worker whose nightmares of atrocities committed in Bosnia impel him to erase the memories of fellow aides—permanently; and the last is an international ring of baby brokers.The first run of Touching Evil in 1999 established this British franchise as a dark, modern noir police series, an almost airless world of gloomy offices bereft of overhead lighting and viewed through a haze of dust and smoke. It's the flip side of British TV's other great cop show, Prime Suspect, but it hums with incisive writing, sharply etched characters, and dramatic intensity, the qualities that make both shows riveting. Robson Green stars as Dave Creegan, the haunted, tightly wrapped investigator whose forehead scar is a constant reminder of his near-death experience. In Touching Evil 2 the Organized and Serial Crime Unit (a fictional police division roughly equivalent to the American FBI) investigates three new cases: a flamboyant serial killer whose murders continue after he's been captured, a wave of relief workers found dead and wrapped in white shrouds, and a baby-broker with ties to a notorious ring of pedophiles. What gives the series its grit is the toll each case takes on the cops. Creegan's confidence is shattered when a miscalculation leaves a girl dead and that misstep haunts him to the devastating series finale. His partner Susan Taylor (Nicola Walker) finds the line between her personal life and her cases blur, and junior squad member Mark Rivers (Shaun Dingwell) goes through a tormenting trial by fire--and trial under fire--to prove his courage and his competence to the unit and to himself. Police stories have rarely been more frank or uncompromising. --Sean Axmaker Read more


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Saturday, October 15, 2011

P.D. James - Death of an Expert Witness [VHS]

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P.D. James - Death of an Expert Witness [VHS]
Roy Marsden (Actor), Barry Foster (Actor) | Format: VHS Tape
3.9 out of 5 stars(12)

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This three-part, 1983 drama remains an honorable and largely captivating effort to adapt the unique structure of a P.D. James mystery novel to television. Despite bizarre production values--including intense lighting (presumably to accommodate the all-video shoot) and a near-absence of tone that often makes good actors look as if they're knocking about between rehearsals--the show holds up where it counts.

James's extensive, pre-murder set-up survives a script translation, and the terrific cast infuses urgency into the story of a forensic scientist (Geoffrey Palmer) bludgeoned to death by any one of many suspects: among them a hostile ex-lover (Meg Davies), her brother and the victim's boss (Barry Foster), and an angry cousin (Brenda Blethyn) living as "a friend" with the deceased's ex-wife. So many possibilities, and the rather dour but thorough Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden), burdened by the recent death of his wife, sifts through them all with deceptive impartiality and quiet self-disapprobation. --Tom Keogh Read more


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Thursday, October 13, 2011

P. D. James - Devices and Desires, Vol. 1 - 6 [VHS]

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P. D. James - Devices and Desires, Vol. 1 - 6 [VHS]
Jeffrey Daunton (Actor), Michael McClain (Actor), Giles Foster (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
4.7 out of 5 stars(3)

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When Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh takes up residence in a cottage left to him by an eccentric aunt, he wants nothing more than to escape. But on his lonely stretch of coastline, a serial killer has been murdering local women, and when the administrator of the controversial nuclear power station is found dead, she is assumed to be his latest victim. But Dalgliesh suspects otherwise, and he reluctantly involves himself in the increasingly complicated case. He soon discovers that more than one killer is involved, and must race to unravel the tangled web of truth before another victim is claimed. This acclaimed adaptation of P.D. James' bestselling novel is personally endorsed by "the Queen of Crime" herself. Read more


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