Tea at four. Dinner at eight. Murder at midnight.
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.
- 6.8
- 2001
- Released
- 2h 17m
Maggie Smith
Constance Trentham
Michael Gambon
William McCordle
Kristin Scott Thomas
Sylvia McCordle
Camilla Rutherford
Isobel McCordle
Charles Dance
Raymond Stockbridge
Geraldine Somerville
Louisa Stockbridge
Tom Hollander
Anthony Meredith
Natasha Wightman
Lavinia Meredith
Jeremy Northam
Ivor Novello
Bob Balaban
Morris Weissman
James Wilby
Freddie Nesbitt
Claudie Blakley
Mabel Nesbitt
Laurence Fox
Rupert Standish
Trent Ford
Jeremy Blond
Ryan Phillippe
Henry Denton
Stephen Fry
Inspector Thompson
Ron Webster
Constable Dexter
Kelly Macdonald
Mary Maceachran
Clive Owen
Robert Parks
Helen Mirren
Mrs. Wilson
Eileen Atkins
Mrs. Croft
Emily Watson
Elsie
Alan Bates
Jennings
Derek Jacobi
Probert
Richard E. Grant
George
Jeremy Swift
Arthur
Sophie Thompson
Dorothy
Meg Wynn Owen
Lewis
Adrian Scarborough
BarnesFrances Low
SarahJoanna Maude
Renee
Teresa Churcher
Bertha
Sarah Flind
Ellen
Finty Williams
JanetEmma Buckley
May
Lucy Cohu
LottieLaura Harling
EthelTilly Gerrard
MaudWill Beer
Albert
Leo Bill
JimGregor Henderson-Begg
Fred
John Atterbury
Merriman
Frank Thornton
Mr. BurkettRon Puttock
StruttAdrian Preater
McCordle's LoaderJohn Cox
LoadersKen Davies
LoadersTony Davies
LoadersSteve Markham
LoadersTerry Sturmey
LoadersJulian Such
LoadersAlan Bland
BeatersPeter Champion
BeatersGeoff Double
BeatersRobin Devereux
BeatersJohn Fountain
BeatersRichard Gamble
BeatersBrian Rumsey
BeatersGeorge Sherman
BeatersNatalie Danks-Smith
American Actress (uncredited)
Released
en
$19,800,000.00
$87,754,044.00
- #england
- #servant
- #butler
- #lordship
- #country estate
- #inspector
- #industrialist
- #money
- #murder
- #countess
- #maid
- #housekeeper
- #valet
- #shooting party
- #illegitimate child
- #dark secret
- #child given up for adoption
- #master servant relationship
- #upstairs downstairs
- #1930s
Reviews
I remember watching this and thinking it reminded me of a very exclusive game of Cleudo! The great and the (not so) good assemble at the stately home of "Sir William McCordle" (Sir Michael Gambon). Now what becomes clear as this gathering gets steadily more sloshed and satiated is that their host has been subsidising many of these high-class scroungers for quite a while and some have become a bit
6/10 Good acting and a solid plot for a murder mystery, but has at least 20-30 minutes of scenes that could have been trimmed, esp as it takes 90min for the murder to occur. I had figured out the key points and was falling asleep at the end...I'm still tired now, writing this.