LoginThe Singing Detective - Region 2 DVD
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The late Dennis Potter was a master at mining the popular songs of the 1930s and '40s for dramatic effect, but he never did it better than in The Singing Detective. The inestimable Michael Gambon plays a mystery writer named Philip E Marlow, who is suffering a torturous bout of psoriatic arthritis in hospital, where he is a victim of both his disease and the National Health Service. Unable to move without pain, he escapes into his imagination, plotting out a murder tale in which he is both a big-band singer and a private eye. But Potter and director Jon Amiel also mix in flashbacks of Marlow's youth and his unhappy marriage to e
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Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Release date: 8 March 2004
Number of discs: 3
EAN: 5014503122225
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Release date: 8 March 2004
Number of discs: 3
EAN: 5014503122225
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