The Shooting Party
December 3, 2011The Shooting Party
Call Number: VHS01581
by: James Mason; John Gielgud; Dorothy Tutin; Edward Fox; Geoffrey Reeve; Alan Bridges; Isabel Colegate; Ace Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [United States] : ACE Video, ©1992.
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1985 motion picture. Based on the novel of the same name by Isabel Colegate. Total Running Time: 108 min.
Summary: Autumn, 1913: on the eve of the Great War, a small party of lords and ladies gather at the Hertfordshire estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby. A code of propriety governs all: dress, breakfast, relations with the estate’s peasants, courtship, shooting, adultery. Lionel Stephens, who is courting Sir Randolph’s daughter, gets into a shooting competition with Lord Gilbert Hartlip; Lord Gilbert’s wife carries on discreet affairs; a pamphleteer circles the estate calling for no more killing, and Sir Robert’s grandson hopes to protect a wild duck he’s befriended. A way of life is ending: Lord Gilbert’s violation of the gentlemen’s code suggests internal rot as the real world presses in.
OCLC #: 29798622
Added: December 3, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
