The Singing Detective [DVD] [1986] | ![The Singing Detective [DVD] [1986]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51E3XG3VVJL.jpg) | Actors: Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley, David Ryall, Gerard Horan
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 4,204
Format: PAL
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
Number Of Items: 3
Running Time: 415 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.9
MPN: 5014503122225
EAN: 5014503122225
ASIN: B000198ABQ
Release Date: March 8, 2004
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 explain how the real Marlow reached this sorry pass. Flawlessly, intricately, kaleidoscopically assembled, the six one-hour episodes fly by like some fantastic fever dream. –Marshall Fine
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