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Business Stationary Mart - Foyle's War: Set 5
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List Price: $49.99
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Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Starring: Michael Kitchen, Anthony Howell, Honeysuckle Weeks
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0054961810895
Format: Box set
Label: Acorn Media
Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Acorn Media
Release Date: 2008-08-05
Running Time: 300
Studio: Acorn Media
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Great Period Detective Stories
Comment: FOYLE'S WAR involves great plotting, great characterization, and great evocation of WWII England. The only apparent concession to modern PC-ness is that our heroes smoke very little and DC Foyle himself is decidedly 2000-ish in his feminist attitude. Happily, his driver Sam (for Samantha) is not made into some sort of proto-feminist harpy; if anything she is more like a gung-ho Girl Guide whose enthusiasm and curiosity gets her into scrapes from which she must often be rescued by (gasp!) men. It's also grand to see men and women wearing grown-up clothes instead of the now ubiquitous baseball caps and tees and shorts bearing advertising.
Foyle's son Andrew, a Spitfire pilot, is a whiny drama queen who is unaccountablity promoted for his repeated irresponsible behavior, and happily disappears, along with his tears and hissy-fits, after the first season or so.
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Summary: Foyles war series
Comment: The Foyle's War series (5 seasons) is about the best DVD viewing available. The acting, writing, directing are all excellent. You can view WWII history in England with all the shades of grey. The characters were believable and well rounded. The story lines explored aspects of how lives of all classes of people were affected by the war, "the good, the bad and the ugly". I wish I could purchase more of this type of quality drama. Foyle's War is one of the few drama's that I will view again, enjoying and discovering all the fine details. It was sad to see Foyle's war end. I hope this production team will pick another topic to explore. Cannot recommend this series highly enough. The Foyle's War series was enjoyed by ALL members of our family and in our family it is difficult to find a "one size fits all" DVD.
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Summary: Excellent WWII Mystery
Comment: This is Series 5 of a PBS Masterpiece Theatre Mystery series, excellently done in the UK. I fell in love with this series on TV and wanted to own the set. Was thrilled that part 5 came out. Done in the same classic style as the Merchant and Ivory films. I down't own many DVDs, but started collecting good classics that I love like this. The acting is superb, the English country-side divine, the suspense thrilling, and the overall experience world class. I highly recommend.
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Summary: John Queue on Foyle's War
Comment: The entire groop is very interesting. It gives a point of view that I have seen nowhere else.
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Summary: Too bad the war is over.
Comment: This series like the others that preceded it paint a vivid picture of rural England during and just after the Second World War. Who could have ever believed that all these intrigues and treachery existed so far from London and the Front and how Foyle and his band of faithful cohorts solved them all. Too bad the war is over.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Combining uncompromising historical accuracy with compelling mysteries, this acclaimed PBS series continues with three feature-length episodes. Michael Kitchen (Out of Africa) stars as DCS Christopher Foyle, investigating wartime crimes in an English coastal town. With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways. Also starring Anthony Howell and Honeysuckle Weeks, and featuring Nicholas Day, Malcolm Sinclair, Nicholas Woodeson, Duncan Bell, Julian Ovenden, Mark Bazeley, Julian Wadham, and Phyllida Law. THE MYSTERIES: PLAN OF ATTACK—With the Hastings police force suffering attrition and low morale, Foyle comes out of retirement to probe the mysterious death of a cartographer from the Air Ministry office. BROKEN SOULS—The murder of an ambitious young doctor at the local psychiatric clinic produces no shortage of suspects among the staff and patients, many of whom still experience the war’s horrors. ALL CLEAR—With final victory expected any day, Hastings looks ahead to a radically different post-war life. But the end comes too soon for two men—one a murder victim, the other an apparent suicide. DVD SEPCIAL FEATURES INCLUDE making-of documentary, cast member reflections, notes on a real-life Foyle, and cast filmographies.
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