VHS: Mrs. Bradley Mysteries, The {Speedy Death (#1.0)}

Mrs. Bradley Mysteries, The {Speedy Death (#1.0)}
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starring: Diana Rigg, Neil Dudgeon, John Alderton, Lynda Baron, Emma Fielding
directed by: Audrey Cooke




Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5014503681227
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Theatrical Release Date: March 07, 1999




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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
This free adaptation of Gladys Mitchell's classic crime novel Speedy Death as a vehicle for a full-blooded performance by Diana Rigg as the louche 1920s analyst Mrs. Bradley is a splendid piece of period drama with an intriguing puzzle at its heart. Mrs. Bradley attends the engagement party of her crippled goddaughter Eleanor, only to find the home of her old beau, Eleanor's father Bing (John Alderson), a hotbed of intrigue and sudden death. Eleanor's unsatisfactory fiancé Everard is found drowned in the bath after quarrelling with the former suitor whose bad driving crippled Eleanor; someone tries to shoot the fiancée of Eleanor's brother Gorde. Full of memorable characters like the sinister housekeeper Mrs. McNamara (Lynda Baron), Speedy Death is an impressive feature-length curtain-raiser to a popular series. For once, a detective has to investigate a crime where she has something seriously at stake--her sense of her own past and her own friends. --Roz Kaveney



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - never received
Never received it. Company said it was a damaged disk, and said that a refund was issued. I got no email from Amazon to verify that.

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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Masterpiece Theatre Does it Again
Scrumptious country house murder with fabulous costumes and twists everywhere. A sit back and sip your tea kind of show.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Murder with style and skeptical asides; and be discrete when you look in the bath tub
"The countryside? A place where the birds and animals wander about uncooked." That's Mrs. Adela Bradley speaking. The place is a large country manor home. The time is the 1920s. And the who include an old friend of Mrs. Bradley, the wealthy Alastair Bing; his daughter Eleanor, who is Mrs. Bradley's god-daughter, confined to a wheelchair since an auto accident two years earlier and who will come into a fortune when she marries; Eleanor's fiancee, Everard Mountjoy; his son, Garde; Garde's best friend (who was driving when Eleanor was crippled), Bertie Philipson; and Garde's house guest, Dorothy Manners. ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Serendipity
So glad to have stumbled upon such a classic and, at the same time, entertaining sleuth! Dame Diana Rigg stars in this first installment of the PBS Mystery! series as the rich and sophisticated Mrs. Adela Bradley, based on the character created by Gladys Mitchell.

The action takes place in the coziest - and most adept to murder - of British places: a country estate, belonging to the rich Bing family. John Alderton stars as Adela's old flame and Master of the Estate. Although they both have taken different paths and married other partners, they have remained old friends, and Adela was chosen ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Welcome to the Jazz Age
Dame Diana Rigg, best known as thoroughly independent Emma Peel of THE AVENGERS, stars here as Adela Bradley, a thoroughly idenpendent woman of the '20's. Adela has been married but has managed to 'correct the error', and now has embraced the new study of psychology applying it to solve the various crimes that seem to happen around her.

Adela has been invited to her god-daughter, Eleanor's engagement party. The young woman's life had been filled with tragedy; her mother's early death, and then a car accident that has left Eleanor confined to a wheelchair. Finally it seems that life is beginning ... Read More

 

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