Lord Peter Wimsey [videorecording] : the unpleasantness at the Bellona Club / BBC ; adapted by John Bowen ; producer, Richard Beynon ; directed by Ronald Wilson.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: AMP-5637 | Acorn MediaPublication details: Silver Spring, MD : Acorn Media, 1973, 2002.Description: 2 videodiscs (180 min.; 90 min. each) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1569385637
- Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
- Masterpiece theatre (Television program)
- Produced by Richard Beynon; directed by Hugh David; adapted by Anthony Stevens; story by Dorothy Sayers.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Ian Carmichael stars as Dorothy L. Sayers blue-blooded detective in this made-for-TV thriller. Armistice Day in 1922 finds a number of old soldiers relaxing at the exclusive Bellona Club, but it turns out one of them is a bit too relaxed -- General Fentiman (Ralph Truman) is dead. As it happens, Fentiman's sister, Lady Dorland, passed away the same day, and since the distribution of her sizable estate hinges upon which sibling died first, Lord Wimsey (Charmichael) is brought in to unravel the truth. It soon becomes obvious that Fentiman was murdered, and the deeper Wimsey digs into the case, the stickier the issue becomes as he discovers an ugly web of treachery involving Fentiman's heirs. Originally produced as a four-part mini-series for the BBC (and aired in the United States on the PBS anthology series Masterpiece Theater, Lord Peter Wimsey: The Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club also stars Derek Newark as Bunter, John Welsh as Mr. Murbles, and Vivien Heilbron, John Quentin, and Terence Alexander as the Fentiman heirs. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Originally broadcast in 1973 on Masterpiece Theatre.
Disc 1. Parts one and two -- Disc 2. Parts three and four.
Produced by Richard Beynon; directed by Hugh David; adapted by Anthony Stevens; story by Dorothy Sayers.
Starring Ian Carmichael.
The mystery begins in the lounge of the Bellona Club where the elderly members all slumber like corpses in their chairs. On Armistice Day 1922, one of them really is a corpse. Question is, did the General or his sister, the Wealthy Lady Dorland, die first. Wimsey uncovers love, greed, anguish, betrayal and finally, the bitter truth.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
DVD; Dolby Digital.