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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: 19562
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Martin Shaw stars as Scotland Yard detective Commander Adam Dalgliesh who is called to conduct an unwelcome investigation in an isolated religious college torn apart by suicide and murder.Running Time: 180 min.System Requirements:Running Time 180 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: NR UPC: 794051201829 Manufacturer No: E2018
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
Average Rating: 
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 ... 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 ... Read More
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