Campion - The Complete First Season
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790775906
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0790775905
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Running Time: 428 minutes
Sales Rank: 14810
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: October 12, 1989
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Behind his distinctive owlish glasses and gentle deceptive naivete Albert Campion conceals a passion for excitement and danger. Peter Davison (All Creatures Great and Small Doctor Who) plays Margery Allingham's enigmatic sleuth with Brian Glover as his loyal but slightly shady manservant in these classic mysteries set in the 1930's.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: NR UPC: 794051174222 Manufacturer No: E1742
Amazon.com:
'Do you take the long road?' asks a gruff restaurant manager of a hapless drifter. Thus is launched one of the serpentine mysteries written by Margery Allingham, featuring a genteel 1930s sleuth named Albert Campion (played by Peter Davison, a former Doctor Who), whose bland good manners mask a macabre humor and a relish for solving crimes. All of Allingham's stories take the long road, winding their way through a collection of eccentric personalities, improbable murders, and unexpected narrative twists.
Look to the Lady centers around the attempted theft of a 1000-year-old golden chalice from the upper-class family entrusted with it care, encompassing witchcraft, a vast criminal organization, strange rituals, and a murderous horse. The Case of the Late Pig takes Campion and his cantankerous manservant Lugg (Brian Glover) into the British countryside, where they encounter a childhood bully, enigmatic letters, a human corpse replaced by a dead pig, and some very important ice cubes. In Police at the Funeral, Campion and Lugg investigate a murder among an upper-crust family of bickering middle-aged siblings and their imperious mother. And in Death of a Ghost the normally unflappable sleuth loses a bit of his objectivity when murder strikes among some good friends, the bohemian enclave that's built up around a deceased artist who decreed that every year after his death one of his 12 last paintings should be unveiled. During a sudden blackout at the annual event, someone stabs an abrasive young artist with a pair of ornate scissors. Campion's interplay with the crusty Lugg, a former burglar with an almost impenetrable Cockney accent, is the series' strongest element. The roundabout plots poke fun at the conventions of murder mysteries while providing all the comfortable pleasures of the genre. --Bret Fetzer
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- Campion-The Complete First SeasonI enjoy mysteries that surprise me. This one does! It gives you all the clues, but I seldom know ... Read More
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- Poor/Impossible recording qualityThe first disc in the set was recorded so poorly I can not view it on my DVD. How do I replace one ... Read More
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- Wonderful series, wish there were moreWe have both series one and two. I cannot imagine anyone not enjoying an evening with Campion and his ... Read More
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- The Good & The BadIf you love British TV and a good mystery and good story line ~ Get the Campion series. However this ... Read More
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- Campion- First SeasonThis series is an enjoyable return to the past is a way not only in good story telling but in its care ... Read More
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