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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790794020
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0790794020
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Running Time: 180 minutes
Sales Rank: 25759
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/25/2005 Starring: Martin Shaw Jesse Spencer Run time: 180 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Jonny Campbell
Amazon.com:
A powerful mystery that sometimes feels like a clash of titanic forces offset by a detective hero's quiet, emotional reawakening, Death in Holy Orders is a cut above most Brit-TV sleuthing. P.D. James's renowned poet and Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh (Martin Shaw) looks into the suffocation death of a student at the theological College of St. Anselm, a place where he spent peaceful time in boyhood. Upon his arrival, Dalgliesh finds a perfect political storm converging. The Church of England is planning to close the school after selling off its art assets, and the eager agent for this mission is an archdeacon (Clive Wood) who might have murdered his wife but definitely destroyed an Anselm priest's reputation by branding him a pedophile. Meanwhile, Dalgliesh, a reclusive widower whose wife died during childbirth, is encouraged toward a fuller life by an old mentor and an interesting woman. This is a crackling whodunit with strong psychological underpinnings. Fans of Roy Marsden's self-contained, sometimes inscrutable Dalgliesh in 10 miniseries during the 1980s and '90s may be startled by Shaw's raw soulfulness in the role. But the latter's interpretation grows on one very quickly. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Not exactly a haven of sweetness and light
This BBC adaptation of P. D. James' "Death in Holy Orders" introduces a new Adam Dalgliesh in the form of actor Martin Shaw. In the role immediately attributable to actor Roy Marsden of the 1980s and 1990s adaptations, Shaw brings a new dimension to Scotland Yard's Commander Dalgliesh, but still preserves the traits long-time James readers love. Shaw is more introspective, it seems, but not as aloof as how Marsden portrayed the character. Despite being a fan of the Marsden versions, I'm beginning to get used to this new face and beginning to appreciate as well Shaw's fine acting talent. As with most BBC adaptations, the production values and acting are first-rate.
This James mystery is a complicated one, teeming with characters and red herrings that could frustrate or delight, depending on the mystery buff's preferences. As in "The Murder Room," which came after this, "Death in Holy Orders" introduces us to a plethora of characters in rapid fire order, 17 to be precise, in just the first half! The story, too, moves at a quick pace and I think it's important to view this DVD without any distractions. It will take every bit of the viewer's attention to keep up with the surge of characters and events, not to mention trying to solve the mystery (as any good armchair detective would instinctively do).
The mystery is set in a theological college, St. Anselm's, in the East Anglian coast. A young student dies in a sandfall that buries him alive. His adoptive father is not ... Read More
Rating: - Martin Shaw is a great fit as Dalgliesh!
Roy Marsden's Dalgliesh was very solid and quite good. However Martin Shaw brings the character to life in a very different, and dare I say it, better interpretation. I would order more of this series with Shaw as the protagonist. Hopefully more will be filmed and put on dvd.
Rating:  - death in holy orders
The dvd was exactly what I wanted and expected. The price was reasonable to me and the shipping charges were also reasonable. The delivery was in a reasonable time. The movie was nothing new as I had seen the movie before and I am a big fan of Jesse Spencer who is in the movie but is not listed on its credits. I like this movie because I like many English films. I am a big fan of Agatha Christie books made into movies as well as P. D. James.
Rating: - very good James
Frankly, I never cared much for Roy Marsden's Dalgliesh. Martin Shaw seems to better capture Dalgliesh as I constructed him from James' stories. His soulful distracted manner conceals a keen mind and he does often seem like a poet trapped in the wrong profession. This story is a good one that seems to wrap you up in the mood of the place and take you away to that isolated foggy coast for a while.
Rating:  - Only one Adam Dalgliesh
If you seen all of the P.D. James series, there's only one Adam Dalgliesh and that's Roy Marsden. I couldn't get used to Martin Shaw in the role. In addition it was a pretty complex story, but then all of PD James' stories are pretty complex with the guilty party barely noticed. I got to the point, where I could usually figure out the guilty party from the very first few scenes. It was always the one you least suspected, and s/he generally came on at the beginning of the story.
I generally enjoy all of the TV James mysteries except the fast spoken language is very hard for an American to catch on to, especially those with a dialect. Cockney, etc. Unfortunately there is no option for sub-titles. That sort of thing doesn't bother a lot of people, but it does bother me.
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