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The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries - Speedy Death

starring: Diana Rigg; Neil Dudgeon; John Alderton; Lynda Baron; Emma Fielding; Simeon Andrews; Tom Butcher; Tyler Butterworth; John Conroy (II); Emma Davies; Sue Devaney; Tristan Gemmill; Andrew Hallett; Roger Grainger; Alec Linstead; Carmela Marner; William Oxborrow; Russell Tovey; Eleanor Tremain; Michael Troughton
directed by: Audrey Cooke

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781593750053
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 1593750056
Label: WGBH BOSTON
Manufacturer: WGBH BOSTON
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: WGBH BOSTON
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 24, 2003
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 43084
Studio: WGBH BOSTON
Theatrical Release Date: March 07, 1999



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Editorial Review:

Description:
Multi-award winner Diana Rigg (Rebecca, The Avengers) stars as stylish sleuth Mrs. Adela Bradley in this sophisticated 1920s whodunit filled with blackmail, a shooting, and plenty of devious twists and turns.

Mrs. Bradley, with her trusty chauffeur George (Neil Dudgeon), arrives at Chayning Court for the engagement party of her god-daughter, Eleanor Bing. Later that evening, Eleanor’s fiancé is found dead in the bath. The police are called in and conclude that his death was nothing more than a tragic accident.

Mrs. Bradley is not so easily satisfied–why was there water on both sides of the bath, why was the window open, and why was the door unlocked? While the rest of the household attends the funeral, Mrs. Bradley launches her own investigation, using her prodigious charm and wit to help the local police catch a killer.

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 ... Read More


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 ... Read More


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 ... 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 ... 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, ... Read More

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