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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781593750046
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1593750048
Label: WGBH BOSTON
Manufacturer: WGBH BOSTON
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: WGBH BOSTON
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 29, 2003
Running Time: 180 minutes
Sales Rank: 18392
Studio: WGBH BOSTON
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Editorial Review:
Description:
Talk about a puzzling case. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard (Nathaniel Parker, Far from the Maddding Crowd) is assigned to investigate the gruesome murder of a farmer in a seemingly peaceful country village, but it’s his new partner, Sgt. Barbara Havers (Sharon Small, About a Boy), whom he’s finding indecipherable. Havers is as gritty, rumpled, and working-class as the Inspector is refined, well-heeled, and sophisticated.
Is the murderer the farmer’s shy daughter who was found next to her father’s decapitated corpse? The nephew who stands to inherit the farm? The estranged wife who’s protecting her new family from an unsightly past? Or is it a suspicious village resident with a shady past and a weak alibi?
Based on the best-selling mystery by Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance introduces Inspector Lynley with first-rate performances and abundant amounts of nail-biting suspense.
Special DVD features include: virtual tour of the Mystery! studio; Q&A with Nathaniel Parker and Sharon Small; selected cast filmographies; selected cast list; biography for Diana Rigg, host of Mystery!; bibliography for Elizabeth George; selected cast list; link to the Mystery! Web site; closed captions; and described video for the visually impaired.
On one DVD9 disc. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: Letterboxed.
Amazon.com:
'A decapitation, a traumatized teen, and localized police corruption,' a superior tells Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard. 'A good result is important for all of us.' The result is very good indeed, as Elizabeth George's gripping bestseller is given the grand PBS treatment. Originally broadcast on Mystery!, this production marked the long-running series' first adaptation of a whodunit written by an American. Nathaniel Parker stars as Lynley, the Oxford-educated detective (and the eighth earl of Asherton, no less). Sharon Small costars as his very reluctant partner, Sgt. Barbara Havers, a working-class cop who considers Lynley 'an arrogant aristocratic ponce.' Their relationship is at the heart of a baffling case involving the grisly ax murder of farmer William Tey. At the scene of the horrific crime is Tey's 16-year-old daughter, dressed in her bloodied Sunday best, and unable (or unwilling) to speak. While sorting out the clues and suspects (including a runaway wife and daughter, and a nephew poised to inherit the farm), Lynley and Havers are bedeviled by their own personal dramas (his best friend has married the woman he loves, and she struggles to take care of her senile mother). Havers, who initially has a sizable chip on her shoulder, remarks early on that maybe her new assignment is her boss's idea of a joke. 'Maybe,' Lynley offers, 'he thought we'd make a good team.' How right he is. --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - great deliverence-great mystery-great production
I had read the book several times. I was a bit disappointed that Simon the best friend's history was not treated in the show and also Bridie the little girl of the fiancee of the deceased was hardly shown at all. The rest of the production was quite good.
Rating:  - The Beginnings of a Wonderful Partnership....
2001's "A Great Deliverance" is the superb two-part pilot for BBC/PBS's Inspector Lynley Mysteries. Like any good pilot episode, much screen time is devoted to introducing the cast, but "A Great Deliverance" manages a gruesome, twisting murder mystery into the bargain.
Inspector Thomas Lynley is an up-and-coming detective at Scotland Yard; he is also an aristocrat, well-educated, well-heeled, and resented by his less fortunate fellow police. As the story opens, he has just had the ... Read More
Rating: - At last: the beginning
Everything is okay with the dvd, even my player could read it.
It is great for me to hear the actots in their mother tongue.
Recommended.
Rating: - Lynley begins
This was the first of the Inspector Lynley series, now unfortunately discontinued. Most of the elements of the series are present, and for those who missed out on the beginnings, here they are. For those unfamiliar with the story, it's all about a blue-blood inspector paired with a working-class sergeant. Comes off very well. The British seem to have a flair for this sort of thing.
Rating: - Inspector Lynley- A Great Deliverance
For every fan of British mystery this first installment of Inspector Lynley will start you on another intense series.
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