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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790768243
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0790768240
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 14, 2002
Running Time: 150 minutes
Sales Rank: 27443
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 1987
Editorial Review:
Description:
The third installment of Dorothy L. Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mysteries, Gaudy Night unfolds at the all female Shrewsbury College at Oxford. Upon returning to Oxford for the first time in years for a school reunion, Harriet Vane is asked by her old professors to turn her talents as a detective writer to practical use. Someone is terrorizing the faculty and students of the college by sending vicious anonymous letters, eventually leading to the destruction of collegiate property and the attack of faculty members. Harriet struggles with the realization that the perpetrator may be a professor as well as the realization of her growing feelings for Lord Peter Wimsey.
Amazon.com:
Malicious mischief infects an Oxford college in the Dorothy L. Sayers classic Gaudy Night, which happily reunites Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. Wimsey, deftly played by Edward Petherbridge, is still proposing marriage at frequent intervals. Harriet (Harriet Walter), though unable to say yes, is also unable to send Lord Peter entirely away. But enough with the romance. As Wimsey heads off for some foreign service work, Harriet visits her alma mater and lands smack in the middle of a poison-pen scandal. Harriet's status as a mystery writer, naturally, means she's the one who should investigate. Sayers clearly had fun writing this one, using Harriet to gently tweak her own profession, at the same time both parodying and defending the cloistered life at a women's college. The production is beautifully done and the performances are terrific, and Gaudy Night brings a satisfying end to the story arc begun with Strong Poison and Have His Carcase. --Ali Davis
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - An Unquiet Place
"From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: they sparkle still the right Promethean fire; they are the books, the arts, the academes, that show, contain, and nourish all the world."
-Love's Labour Lost
This is the third Dorothy L. Sayers novel in which mystery writer Harriet Vane has been pursued by Lord Peter Wimsey, but this one has the added attraction of being set at Shrewsbury, an all-women's college at Oxford. Oxford is much more than just a backdrop, however, as it is one ... Read More
Rating:  - POOR CASTING
I beg to differ with the other reviewers. I have read a couple of the Sayers books (Gaudy Night and The Nine Tailors come to mind). I don't remember much about the books, except that I wasn't keen on reading them all. But I love mysteries and I've seen all the Wimsey eipsodes made for television, those with Ian Carmichael and those with Edward Petherbridge. The Carmichael episodes are far better, for my money. Carmichael's Wimsey is charming, sparkling, a little quirky and fun, a man you want ... Read More
Rating:  - A Mystery To Me
While enjoyable, it was "a mystery to me" why footage was cut from the version I saw on Mystery. I definitely remember the scenes about the chess set when I saw this story on TV.
Why, oh why, was it cut? It captured a major awareness, on Harriet's part, concerning her feelings for Lord Peter.
I feel cheated, as when we purchase such a product, we expect to see the ENTIRE work. If that does not matter to you, then this incomplete work stands alone as better than nothing.
Rating: - We came, we saw, they conquered!
This series concludes in a most excellent way, with a challenging whodunit set amidst the antiquities of Oxford.
The way these characters were portrayed introduced me to the world of Dorothy Sayers' post-WWI England, and my only regret is that Talboys was not introduced as a subsequent episode.
Whenever I read (and reread) Dorothy Sayers, it will always be the portrayal of Peter Wimsey by Edward Peterbridge that I envision. Of all the actors who have taken on this role, *this* ... Read More
Rating:  - A Deep Disappointment
Gaudy Night has long been my favorite Lord Peter Wimsey--or perhaps I should say, Harriet Vane detective story. There's no doubt Sayers recreated Oxford lovingly and with extreme vividness. Harriet Vane fully comes into her own in this story. The TV adaptation, however, is truncated, simplified almost beyond recognition. The various characters are cardboard stereotypes. The deepening relationship between Wimsey and Harriet is reduced to cliches. Why in the world were 4 episodes lavished on a much lesser ... Read More
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