A 90 years long feud between two families, the Hicks and the Hammonds, appears to have escalated to murder.A 90 years long feud between two families, the Hicks and the Hammonds, appears to have escalated to murder.A 90 years long feud between two families, the Hicks and the Hammonds, appears to have escalated to murder.
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- TriviaWhile the Colonel Bogey March (Kenneth Alford) is playing, closed captioning lists it as the theme from The Great Escape (1963). It is the The Bridge on the River Kwai theme. Elmer Bernstein wrote the Great Escape theme.
- GoofsDuring the flashback the murderer is shown setting up the machine gun with bare hands. Why didn't fingerprints reveal the killer's identity to Barnaby?
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DS Ben Jones: You don't have to look quite so smug, sir.
DCI Tom Barnaby: Of course I *do*. It's one of the perks of experience.
- ConnectionsReferences The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
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Ambiguous, somewhat ridiculous and a bit banal, but generally normal episode
Personally, I've always preferred the first two eras of the series, namely the Troy era and the Scott era. The era of Jones in a duet with Tom Barnaby was ambiguous. Jason Hughes is a great actor, he perfectly plays all the scenes, from the comical to the tense, but you can't help noticing that the quality has greatly decreased. Season 9 turned out to be quite mediocre and was the first season that did not include a single episode on the top ten.10. The tenth season was a remarkable improvement. The eleventh is an ambiguous season, with three solid episodes of the show, one just good, two weak and this non-successful episode.
There's a lot of good stuff here - a baguette fight, a pretty memorable killer, a tearful ending, a tie-in, mayor Hicks, and a couple of funny dialogues. However, "Shot at Dawn" does a few things that should have been abandoned at the discussion stage, namely the overly banal ending, virtually all flat, cardboard characters, a boring plot, a lot of sexual themes, and the disgusting Arabella Hammond. I mean, you know, I really want to love this movie, but it's too boring, even sleepy to watch, and there are too many sickening moments. Subtotal. an ambiguous episode. 7/10
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- znatokdetectiva
- Sep 20, 2020
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- The Green, Nettlebed, Henley-on-Thames, UK(Midsomer Parva's green)
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- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
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- 4:3
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