| The Singing Detective |  | Director: Jon Amiel
Actors: Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley, David Ryall, Gerard Horan
Studio: BBC Worldwide
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.98
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Sales Rank: 28,907
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 415 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.9
MPN: WARDE1699D
ISBN: 0790771055
UPC: 794051169921
EAN: 9780790771052
ASIN: B00007HGIJ
Release Date: April 15, 2003
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| • | 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. F |
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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.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Audio commentary with star Michael Gambon and director Jon Amiel
Documentaries:2 Behind-the-scenes specials
Photo gallery
Amazon.com
The 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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