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Murder Must Advertise that it's one of Five Great Movies
Oh my jolly goodness, we love these movies! We have owned the 5-movie CD set for sometime now, and we watch them just constantly really. Usually we have to make a 2- to 3-night watching of each movie since they come in 4 and 5 parts, conveniently partitioned, though. <
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>What is neat about these movies is you can actually buy and own and watch each of them individually without losing story. Not so with the Lord Peter Wimsey Harriet Vane series. But why own just one?! Own all five of these movies; they're all really great! <
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>"Murder Must Advertise" is probably my least favorite, but my husband really likes it; however, he doesn't really care for the excessive Harlequin act Wimsey puts on. One of the things I do like very much is the fact that Wimsey actually quietly ostracizes Chief Inspector Parker for declaring that the death-by-murder of the blonde drug addict woman was "no great loss." Wimsey rather liked her, knew her as the vulnerable person she was. <
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>Our absolute favorite is "Clouds of Witness," largely because it's the first and introduces the whole Wimsey clan and how Inspector Parker ("ParkerBird") meets and falls in love with Wimsey's sister, Lady Mary ("Polly" to Lord Peter.) The Dowager Duchess (Lord Peter's mother) is just a hoot in this story as well, saying "Murder!? I won't have it! Not in this house." <
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>It is said that Dorothy Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey's creator, never introduced a character that she didn't keep in the subsequent stories. So, it's fun to see that unfold in all five of these movies. <
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>Ian Carmichael is just fabulous as Lord Peter Wimsey. There are two separate actors who play his trusted manservant (the more-than-perfect butler) Bunter, both equally as good as the other, although we prefer the Bunter introduced in "Clouds of Witness." <
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>Sumptuous costumes and settings, that typical Brit filming of film outdoors and videotape indoors, great storylines, great dialogue, very believable, very entertaining, very watchable over and over and over. Well worth owning! <
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>While you're getting this Lord Peter Wimsey, good gracious don't forget to get the Harriet Vane series of Lord Peter Wimsey with Edward Petherbridge (Lord Peter Wimsey) and Harriet Walter (Harriet Vane). Jolly good!

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I strongly recommend this DVD to all those amored of a cracking good yarn. The plot is well written and the players deliver their parts exquisitely. I had listened to BBC cassettes of this mystery for over 12 years before finally getting to see the TV version and I was thrilled with Ian Carmichael's portayal of Lord Peter Wimsey. There are some familiar faces in the cast, including Christopher Timothy, Peter Bowles, Bridget Armstrong, and Paul Darrow. The dialogue is so smart and effective throughout the show. The plot revolves primarily around who (if anyone) killed Victor Dean, a copywriter at Pym's Advertising and secondarily about the drug ring Chief Inspector Parker is pursuing. To see how they are related, you will have to watch the mystery unfold. If you really appreciate good English mysteries, you'll watch this show more than once, I have!

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Lord Peter Shines Again!
This DVD, along with The Nine Tailors, is one of my two favorite of the Lord Peter Wimsey series starring Ian Carmichael that were first produced in the mid 1970s. In Murder Must Advertise Lord Peter works incognito, using his two middle names Death Bredon as an alias, at an advertising agency in London. His purpose is to solve a puzzling mystery surrounding the death of an employee at the agency, shortly before that employee was to reveal some shocking information about criminal activities at work. The story is classical Sayers, with plenty of red herrings to mislead and beguile you. It has an additional charm in that it gives a good view of what life must have been like in an advertising agency in Britain in the 1930s (Dorothy L. Sayers worked in such an agency before creating Lord Peter, so the give and take of office life rings true. You also get a glimpse of the sordid world of drug dealers and the unhappy frivolity of the Bright Young Things. I also enjoyed Peter's sparkling sister Lady Mary and his snobby sister in law the Duchess of Denver The mystery itself is well told and comes to a satisfying conclusion. The DVD also has a nice interview with Ian Carmichael and some Wimsey/Sayers trivia