Lord Peter Wimsey - The Nine Tailors [VHS]
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Actor: Donald Eccles, Elizabeth Proud, Glyn Houston, Ian Carmichael, Patrick JordanEditor: Alan Bradley
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 210 minutes
Release Date: 2001-09-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Acorn Media
Studio: Acorn Media
VHS Movie Reviews of Lord Peter Wimsey - The Nine Tailors [VHS]
Movie Review: nothing wimsical about wimsey
Summary: 5 Stars
ian carmichael's portrayal of the detective, lord peter
wimsey, is superb. hours of amusement and detection.
great cast, and the locations are very british. seen the series when it originally appeared on masterpiece
theater on pbs. been a long time, but glad to have seen
it again. five star rating out of five stars. great price and shipping from amazon.com
Movie Review: Fantastic Story told by Sayers
Summary: 5 Stars
The story line and the Bell Ringing is cool. The domestic historical value is extraordinary to see what it was like in England after WWI.
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Movie Review: One of the Greatest novels of the 20th century comes to TV
Summary: 5 Stars
The Nine Tailors is generally agreed to be Sayers' finest book. There isn't much romance, but it uses flashbacks to put Lord Peter Wimsey in the frame of the First World War and explain his relationship to Bunter, his faithful man servant. Ian Carmichael delivers one of the outstanding performances of his career. The other characters are real, believable, people who suffered through WWI and the 1930's.Movie Review: The best Lord Peter yet
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent escape quality, complexity, and characters. This is head and shoulders above the gritty tough-guy mysteries of the last half-century.Movie Review: He sent forth a raven
Summary: 5 Stars
A young Lord Peter (Ian Carmichael) in formal uniform on his way to the war. He is standing in for his brother The Duke of Denver at a wedding. Mischief is afoot and an emerald necklace was pinched. Where it was stored for save keeping I can not say. It looks like the perpetrator was winged by a well placed shot. We get the inside story and know the truth.
All in the first chapter we see the crime and the fait of the perpetrators. We also get a first hand view of the meeting and growing relationship and Wimsey and Bunter (Glyn Houston.) As fait would have it Lord Peter finds him self once again in Fenchurch St. Pauli. This time as providence would have it just in time to replace a sick bell ringer on New Year's Eve.
Three months later a body is found in and Lord Peter is invited to the inquest.
This film is based on a Dorothy L. Sayers novel of the same name with the screen adaptation by Anthony Steven.
At first you are not sure that this is the same peter Wimsey when you see the blond hair and mustache. However if you look close they made little attempt to cover the wrinkled face.
If you have, an opportunity to view this film before reading the book you will not be distracted by the deviations and omissions form the written story.
Lord Peter Wimsey - Five Red Herrings
Summary of Lord Peter Wimsey - The Nine Tailors [VHS]
Ian Carmichael stars as Dorothy L. Sayers' aristocratic detective in the most requested title in this phenomenally popular mystery series. Fans call The Nine Tailors not just Sayers' best novel but "one of the great novels of the century." Lord Peter finds himself caught up in a case involving a mutilated corpse, a 20-year-old jewel robbery, an outbreak of Spanish influenza and a set of nine church bells.Devotees of Dorothy L. Sayers's impeccable sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, will want to pour themselves "two large whiskeys" to toast the release of this 1974 miniseries based on one of Sayers's most popular novels. Ian Carmichael stars in his signature role as the future aristocratic detective, who, as a young soldier en route to the battlefield, becomes embroiled in "a very distressing story." Someone has stolen "a king's ransom" in uninsured emeralds from the estate of Sir Charles (Desmond Llewelyn, better known to James Bond fans as "Q") on the night of his son's wedding. No mystery here: In this case, the butler really did do it. But that's only the beginning in a puzzler that will span 20 years, when Wimsey inadvertently returns to the scene of the crime and steps into some "damn bad business" involving a recently discovered mutilated body. He discovers at the bottom of a well and in a church tower baffling clues that harken back to that fateful robbery and the still-missing jewels. The nine tailors, by the way, refers to nine church bells and the arcane tradition of change ringing. This entry in the Wimsey series offers the usual pleasures of splendid acting, colorful characters, and intriguing story. We also get to see how Bunter became Wimsey's faithful manservant. Suffice to say, The Nine Tailors will really ring your bell. --Donald Liebenson
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