British film and TV turned me into an Anglophile. As a girl in the 70’s, my mom would let me stay up late and watch the 70’s version of, “Upstairs, Downstairs” with her; as well as, Masterpiece Theatre on public television. I enjoy drama and mysteries that require the use of “the little grey cells.” Lol. Poirot is my “spirit human”. 🧐😊
When I was two I didn't want to go to the lovely day care for pre-school kids in our neighbourhood so my mother took me with her to watch Woody Allen & Monty Pythons films in an arthouse cinema. Later on I was allowed to watch on cable American and British films first in the French version but if I wanted to watch it again - and I did, a lot - it was in the original version with French subtitles. Not to mention BBC hilarious series.
My mother and I watched Upstairs Downstairs together as well. It was interesting because my mother spent several years in London before the war and worked in the household of a wealthy English family. She still had her uniform with the little lace edged cap and several sets of collars and an apron that came to a point at the front bottom hem. She had a great time and communicated with the family all her life. She used to laugh and tell stories similar to those on the program. Thank you for reminding me of this.
Ditto. I desperately miss “American Playhouse” and also “Masterpiece Theatre” and “Mystery” as their own anthology series, not to mention the other occasional series like “All Creatures Great and Small.”
Three reasons I prefer British crime movies over American made-for-TV: 1. Rare violence. British protagonists use their brains, not risky shock and awe gunplay to overcome bad guys (like when the hero with one handgun triumphs over 6 men with machine guns!) 2. Brits don't rush the story just so they can cram the entire case into 40 minutes run time (because they have to allow for 20min/hour of commercials!) Americans lead the viewer by the nose to an "obvious" conclusion by leaving out "red herrings" like there are in real cases. 3. British movie dialog is not overwhelmed by LOUD background music and flashing camera angles--with no more than 7 seconds (the average young American's attention span) before switching to a different camera angle. I guess I'm just showing my age....
MaryEllen Jones I, like you, am an American. I agree WHOLEHEARTEDLY with your every word. In fact, it's as if you took the words right from my own thoughts. Thank You!
MaryEllen Jones and people who appear good are often bad. No simple black hats and white hats, a sure path to getting it wrong and increasing the thrilling kill rate that Americans love because it means they’re winning. . Wonder why? Brutal frontier mentality of settler colonialists, perhaps?
I'm Canadian and agree with your sentiments entirely. I'm 71 and don't think it's an age thing. It's just having been exposed to both, one sees the difference. My daughter is 45 and prefers the British productions too!
And the casting! They cast a variety of ages and physical types throughout all the roles. The main characters don’t all look like models. They also often have male characters matched with age appropriate women, not 50 year old guys with a woman who could be a daughter or granddaughter.
the Aussie film industry (southern cross ) produces some great stuff. is there any NZ classic detective series you can recommend, anything like Dawn Patrol, or the detective movies?
@chrisramm1 I'd watch anything with Sam Neill in it. There are lots of terrific Antipodean actors and actresses. Ngaio Marsh was a good writer, whose books would lend themselves to film adaptation. I remember seeing television adaptations of Katherine Mansfield's short stories, too.
Yeah, with a few exceptions, the British programming has it. An interview with Diana Rigg told me part of the "why:" in the early '60's, the British film industry pretty much "went under," so all these top-flight personnel had jobs doing TV, & the results were, & generally still are, superb!
Love this series. Dalgleish is magnificent, and like so many agree, the Brits know how to translate a crime/mystery/drama book for the sake of television. They don't rush the character portrayals and it helps that PD James is so descriptive in her writing of the landscape, buildings, homes, etc.
I love British serials. Besides everything else, one can understand the language. And less swearing. I watched P.D. James this morning. Haven't seen one for years and it's not dated.
Fabulous re-creation of one of the fine Dalgleish novels by the master mystery writer, PD James. Almost as good as reading the novel for the first time. Almost.
@@richardspooner4822 Sorry, I didn't mean to touch a nerve. You wasted your own time by replying. I just meant "not quite". Figure it out for yourself.
Cover Her Face is the debut 1962 crime novel of P. D. James. It details the investigations by her poetry-writing detective Adam Dalgliesh into the death of a young, ambitious maid, surrounded by a family which has reasons to want her gone - or dead. The title is taken from a passage from John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi: "Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle; she died young." via Wikipedia
I was only eleven when this was on the tv. I’d never watched it before, but have been reading P D James books. Can’t wait for sponsors two. Thank you 😊
Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh investigates the death of Alice Liddell who ran a home for unwed mothers. One of the residents there is Sally Jupp, who was a witness in a drug-smuggling and murder investigation in London. Sally works at the local manor house for the Maxie family, and it is apparent that eldest son Stephen has more than a passing interest in her. When a murder occurs at the Maxie residence, the question is whether it is related to the London investigation or was committed for a completely different reason altogether.- from IMDB
Thanks so much for uploading these. I used to have them all copied onto videos only the videos got destroyed. I liked them very much and am delighted to have them back. :)
I always enjoy English detective TV. I do miss, in the case of PD James based stories, the writing itself which expertly creates setting, atmosphere, characters and plot.
I am Canadian. Have long been a viewer of PBS and much prefer British programming over the stuff served up on most channels here. Looking for episodes of Lewis or Morse or George Gently (to name but a few) I am delighted to have come across Dagliesh. I had not heard of him and after watching one movie I am hooked ! Thank you!
Same with me, I only watch British movies, Sherlock & Poirot which I’m binge watching now, and I’m reading Death in holy orders for the second time now!
I know this young lady from several other shows but I can't think of which ones they were off the top of my head. I'll have to look it up later or it will drive me nuts.
Very well-acted, and in some ways I prefer the entry into the story in the show versus the book, which I've read fairly recently, but I'd forgotten the series was set in the 80s, and the book is so 60s! I had never seen this before, although I watched some of the adaptations a child. Thank you for uploading!
So sad that the original novel has been changed. I don’t know why. It stood very well on its own. But I did enjoy the tv show. Great actors and scenery.
People tend to overlook the propaganda/indoctrinating effect that the movies offer. We are what we read/watch/ listen to. Pack that with the fragmenting effects of being bombarded with high powered commercials. Voila. There you have it, especially for the vulnerable.
Too simplistic, imho. You left out the impact of relationships with other people, economic and social circumstances, and personal history. I agree about the vulnerable, but, again, you have to factor in relationships etc.
thanks so much for these uploads. I was too young to watch them the first time round but my are they a treat. Such a flashback to days oif being courteous and polite. Remember when people actually asked "how do you do?" that seems like an eon ago! anyway am so enjoying them, thank-you.
Interesting how slow this is, compared with modern drama. That agonisingly laboured beginning, starting with mum and baby's taxi ride - drama is much speedier now. I think in the internet age we all have far shorter attention spans! Shame really.
glamdolly20 -- Not just the internet age's decreased attn span, I think, because the last two with Marsden (from 1993 and 1995) were filmed as 2-hour TV movies; the cost of production was probably a factor, and who knows what else. FWIW, I'm middle-aged *and* a fan of character development, and even so I find these 300-min adaptations way too slow and ponderous -- it's not as tho every minute is well-used (there's a lot of wasted time).
I'm American, & I prefer the British crime shows as well. The Brits just do them better. Love shows like A Touch of Frost, Inspector Morse, & Inspector Lewis. I far prefer the British mystery novels as well. I read & collect around 40 mystery series, and 37 of them are British.
😮 THIS was what 1985, not 1885. OMG 😳, are THEY serious 😱😲. Never judge a book by it's cover 😢😢. So dam judgemental 😎💯🤔🙏. You never know a girls circumstances 😭😭😭🥱🥱🥱 Cannot believe, the hatred 😱🍋. I love British DRAMA'S. But, whoever made this was not a nice person 😮😢. I was a single mum, and proud of it. So there, I didn't an incredible job 🌺🌺🌺🌺
I really love Roy Marsden as Dalgliesh but for some reason I found this episode disturbing, this family was smug, self important and believed themselves to be to good for Sally. and because of that Sally enjoyed taunting them and rubbing their noses in it and for this she was murdered, The thing that bothered me was I had the feeling the episode was saying that she got what she deserved for not knowing her place.
2IBELIS -- an interesting perspective. I didn't interpret it thus, but at least one other viewer did (there's a comment under another ep). FWIW, the novel was published in 1962, so this adaptation (tho set in the 80s) might reflect not only echoes of societal views from then but also James's own social conservatism, not to mention her then-inexperience as a writer (i.e., she might have been more heavy-handed with regard to social commentary when she was starting out).
Does anyone know where the house is, which appears in the exterior shot at 30:14 ? Another source indicates this series was filmed at Rainthorpe Hall, Norfolk, but the house at 30:14 looks nothing like it. Thanks.
I doubt the English gentry realises how lucky, or privileged, they actually are. Till this day they tend to talk condescendedly about the people they considere to be below them. But it is just a matter of being born in a lucky family, isn't it? Therefore nobody needs to have pity with any of them.
Have really been enjoying these, but the ads are getting out of control - every 2 minutes or so. RU-vid Ad block is not available in the country I currently live in. Too bad. Have to stop watching.
I must say that after reading and re-reading the P.D. James books, Marsden definitely does not embody Dalgliesn in my opinion. The new Dalgliesh (Bertie Carvel) fits much better
Can´t you see that the words, DVD Rip XViD is just a way of saying this series is uploaded by someone who has NO COPYRIGHTS for this material? IT IS STOLEN. Is Rudolph Forsythe´s name anywhere in the video credits? NOOOOO!. Look for the copyright sign: (C) in the credits at the end of each episode. Get it yet? The copyrights are with Anglia Television Ltd. NOT anyone one named Rudolf Forsythe. Now do you get it??????
I find that the televised P.D. James mysteries of the 1980s are far more superior to the Joan Hickson Miss Marple and Inspector Morse stories of the 1980s.
I have tried hard to like Roy Marsden as Adam Dalgliesh but he seems so smug and superior. I've read a few of P.D. James books and her Dalgliesh was melancholy and smart, not like Marsden.
if you watch earlier postings of the series and comments a certains poster says that the characters-all the characters-were not really supposed to be likeable just bearable...
@@victorcross5949I agree he isn't the least smug, he is however enigmatic with an undertone of an melancholic yet philosophical nature, even though Roy Marsden never liked Commander Adam Dalgliesh as a character, I believe his hatred obviously drove his performance, which I have always found sublime and extremely close to Adam Dalgliesh in the novels, in many ways Dalgliesh was the reflection of Dame Phyllis Dorothy James, a woman I always found as enigmatic whilst possessing a quick analytical and methodical mind as the legendary fictional character Miss Marple. Who as Agatha said of Joan Hickson, she was the living embodiment of Jane Marple, the same is true of Roy as Adam Dalgliesh.
😂😂😂😂 Ah...não demorou nada! O feminismo escancarado numa mulher mãe solteira, e todos fingindo ser normal! Uma irresponsável que investiga barulhos num porão....me poupe! E ninguém percebeu a doutrinação aí. Mas, sendo justa, feminismo nas telas começou antes! Sofia Loren, numa sociedade educada, nunca se exporia do modo como ela fez! A minha avó é italiana, e, nunca uma mulher de respeito sairia às ruas daquele jeito! Marilyn Monroe, veem? E por aí vai... Beth Davis, é mais sutil, mas está lá....a doutrinação.
?Adam Dalgliesh is so much nicer in P.D. James books. This guy is arrogant. These guys think they are Mr. Macho. Guys like this are not even desirable to women. I really want to watch this series, but Roy Marsden and his sidekick almost make it impossible to watch. I loved all the books. They have ruined P.D. James stories. 2 years from the first entry. These men😂 even treat the older women like peons. I am trying to watch and not pay attention to their awful treatment of women.
The Blonde woman Debra who's name comes up next episode .her "The Wages of Sin are Death" comment referencing the unwed mother who just came to work for he house makes me think the sister has screw lose .
