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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790794037
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0790794039
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Running Time: 180 minutes
Sales Rank: 42243
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Commander Dalgliesh undertakes a highly sensitive murder investigation at the Dupayne Museum. The circumstances of the case bear an unsettling similarity to the historical cases commemorated in the museum's notorious Murder Room.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE UPC: 794051201928
Amazon.com:
The Murder Room finds Martin Shaw's second effort at playing novelist P.D. James's renowned poet and detective hero, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh, all the more powerful yet painfully human as the character sorts out a double homicide and looks into his own heart to understand his emotional isolation. A psychiatrist, Neville Dupayne (Michael Maloney), and a young model (Ty Glaser) are gruesomely murdered within minutes of each other--one in a car garage and the other in a nearby wing, called the Murder Room, of a museum. The Murder Room focuses on famous killings in British history, and Dalgliesh finds it noteworthy that the two deaths he's investigating bear similarities to monstrous crimes described in the Room's display cases. Complicating matters is interference from British intelligence, which has its reasons for wanting the case handled discreetly. Kerry Fox, Samantha Bond, Nicholas Le Provost, and Sid Mitchell are all terrific as sundry suspects, and Tilly Blackwood and William Beck are a lot of fun as Dalgliesh's sometimes awkward Detective Inspector team. The suspense gets red-hot at times, and not just about the crime. The real question in The Murder Room is whether Dalgliesh can get his personal life together in time to accept the love being offered by the delightful Emma Lavenham (Janie Dee), the enchanting scholar he met in Death in Holy Orders. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A different Dalgleish
I won't recap the plot as I would just be repeating what others have said here. Just say that Martin Shaw brings a different dimension to Adam Dalgleish and I see nothing wrong with it. Those who rant that only Roy Marsden can play the role are short-sighted. Would you reject all other Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot portrayers but the very first? That would leave you with Margaret Rutherford but not Helen Hayes, Joan Hickson and others. As for Poirot, you'd miss the definitive David Suchet portrayal ... Read More
Rating: - My worst failure comes back to me in flames of fire
The Murder Room by P. D. James is a classic whodunit featuring Lady James' franchise character, Adam Dalgliesh. Viewers of Anglia TV's 1980s and 1990s adaptations will remember actor, Roy Marsden, as the analytical, poetry-loving commander in the Metropolitan Police Service of New Scotland Yard. In the more recent BBC productions, actor Martin Shaw is the new Dalgliesh.
The story opens with a heated discussion among siblings Neville, Marc, and Caroline, all trustees of the Dupayne Museum ... Read More
Rating: - The Murder Room an external appreciation
Super movie,great story & Samantha Bond is a knockout.Don't hesitate to get this;worth watchig over & over.
Rating: - quintessential James and Dalgliesh
James is inspired by places to create her works and in the isolated time-worn DuPayne museum she has created yet another eerie atmosphere of people trapped in a bubble away from real life.
In this story Dalgliesh pursues Emma, the Emma who captivated him in A Death In Holy Orders, and there are two urgencies here: the urgency of solving the murders and the anxiety of wondering if the aloof Dalgliesh is finally ready to move on in life.
Rating:  - A Real Who Done It!
Very good interpretation of P.D. James's book, The Murder Room. Good casting and movement of plot. Kept the viewer guessing.
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