THE SINGING DETECTIVE (MINI-SERIES, 1986)
IMDb Link.......: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090521/
IMDb Ratings....: 8.7/10 from 3,413 users
Director........: Jon Amiel
Writer..........: Dennis Potter
Stars...........: Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley
Genres..........: Drama, Musical, Mystery
Reworking material from his first novel, "Hide and Seek" (1973),
and folding this into a prismatic blend of autobiographical
details, popular music and 1940s film noir, Dennis Potter
delivered a drama now regarded as a 20th-century masterwork.
Detective novelist Philip Marlow (Michael Gambon) suffers from
the crippling disease of psoriatic arthritis. Confined to a
hospital bed, Marlow mentally rewrites his early Chandleresque
thriller, "The Singing Detective," with himself in the title
role, drifting into a surreal 1945 fantasy of spies and
criminals, along with vivid memories of a childhood in the
Forest of Dean. As past events and 1940s songs surface in his
subconscious, Marlow's voyage of self-discovery provides a key
to conquering his illness, while his noir-styled hallucinations
evoke the Philip Marlowe of Chandler's "Murder, My Sweet" (1944),
starring Dick Powell, who later became a "singing detective" on
radio's "Richard Diamond, Private Detective" (1949), crooning to
girlfriend Helen Asher at the end of each episode.
FILE INFO:
Containers......: mkv
File Size.......: 2377 MB (396 MB per episode)
Run Time........: 6:42:56 (67 min. per episode)
Video...........: ~624x480, 4:3, x264
Video Quality...: Constant RF: 22,0
Audio...........: 2.0 channels (aac, 128 kbps)
Audio Language..: English
Soft-Coded Subs.: English (separate .SRTs)
Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish
(VobSub, muxed in)
Frame Rate......: 25,00 fps
Source..........: DVD (PAL)
Sample..........: Included
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