The Singing Detective (1986)

Reworking material from his first novel, "Hide and Seek" (1973), and folding this into a prismatic blend of autobiographical details, popular music and 1940s film noir, Dennis Potter delivered a drama now regarded as a 20th-century masterwork. Detective novelist Philip Marlow (Michael Gambon) suffers from the crippling disease of psoriatic arthritis. Confined to a hospital bed, Marlow mentally rewrites his early Chandleresque thriller, "The Singing Detective," with himself in the title role, drifting into a surreal 1945 fantasy of spies and criminals, along with vivid memories of a childhood in the Forest of Dean. As past events and 1940s songs surface in his subconscious, Marlow's voyage of self-discovery provides a key to conquering his illness, while his noir-styled hallucinations evoke the Philip Marlowe of Chandler's "Murder, My Sweet" (1944), starring Dick Powell, who later became a "singing detective" on radio's "Richard Diamond, Private Detective" (1949), crooning to ...

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The Singing Detective (2003)

kriminalistički, misterija, komedija, mjuzikl

Pisac prikovan za krevet halucinira o pesmama i paranoičnim fabulama, pišući o detektivu koji u slobodno vreme peva u svom bendu.

Cream in My Coffee (1980)

drama, mjuzikl

Past and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were young and flashbacks to the earlier visit reveal the origins of both their pleasures and...

Blade on the Feather (1980)

misterija

A reclusive, elderly author is visited by a young admirer...but both men are more than they claim to be.

Edge of Darkness (1985)

drama, kriminalistički, misterija, naučna fantastika, triler

Pošto detektivu Ronaldu Krejvenu brutalno ubiju ćerku, on započinje istragu kojom će doći do svih onih odgovora koje nije htio da čuje: ko mu je zapravo ćerka i zašto su najmoćniji ljudi na planeti...

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