The Scene opens with a moaning lady; hovering over her is a brute assistant Muldoon to what looks like a mad doctor and his Brunhilda looking, assistant. To make matters worse there is the biggest hypodermic syringe ever conserved by man. It is half full of green glop.
Gabriel Stovington just returned from a two-year stint in the artic and is getting the runaround while trying to find his fiancé. He needs a detective agency.
After the Great War Tommy Beresford (James Warwick) and wife/ assistant Tuppence (Francesca Annis) buy the Blunt International Detective agency. And without any background become detectives. By the time you get to this episode they are getting good at it (maybe).
The acting at first makes you think that you are sitting in the front row of a Bernard Shaw play.
Of course, it is an obvious secret message. However, being clever they figure that the message is some sort of rendezvous. It is to take part in the Three Arts Ball (costume ball) where one of the sleuths gets to dress up as Sherlock Holmes and the other as Dr. Watson. One guess as to who gets to be homes.
After the ball is over, like most of the revelers, they go to xxx to have a drink an early breakfast. There they notice a man costumed as the local paper entering a private booth with a woman and coming out alone. We are way ahead of them on the plot
As with most of the "Partners in Crime" series we are fare ahead of them on the "whom". The fun is to watch them figure out not only the whom but the other details. This story is a period piece of just after The Great War.
Made for TV and fairly transparent, this film still has all the ambiance of a BBC Agatha Christy production. It is a period piece and employs many major English actors. Detective Inspector Marriott (Arthur Cox) played the newspaper reporter Salcombe Hardy in Dorothy L. Sayers' Have His Carcase (1987).
Gabriel Stovington just returned from a two-year stint in the artic and is getting the runaround while trying to find his fiancé. He needs a detective agency.
After the Great War Tommy Beresford (James Warwick) and wife/ assistant Tuppence (Francesca Annis) buy the Blunt International Detective agency. And without any background become detectives. By the time you get to this episode they are getting good at it (maybe).
The acting at first makes you think that you are sitting in the front row of a Bernard Shaw play.
Of course, it is an obvious secret message. However, being clever they figure that the message is some sort of rendezvous. It is to take part in the Three Arts Ball (costume ball) where one of the sleuths gets to dress up as Sherlock Holmes and the other as Dr. Watson. One guess as to who gets to be homes.
After the ball is over, like most of the revelers, they go to xxx to have a drink an early breakfast. There they notice a man costumed as the local paper entering a private booth with a woman and coming out alone. We are way ahead of them on the plot
As with most of the "Partners in Crime" series we are fare ahead of them on the "whom". The fun is to watch them figure out not only the whom but the other details. This story is a period piece of just after The Great War.
Made for TV and fairly transparent, this film still has all the ambiance of a BBC Agatha Christy production. It is a period piece and employs many major English actors. Detective Inspector Marriott (Arthur Cox) played the newspaper reporter Salcombe Hardy in Dorothy L. Sayers' Have His Carcase (1987).
