- Actors: Daniel Craig, Colin Redgrave, Kitty Aldridge, Frances Barber, Penny Downie
- Directors: Tim Fywell
- Format: PAL, Colour, Widescreen, Subtitled
- Language English
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 15
- Studio: BBC
- Run Time: 171 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B001K3UF6K
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 55,539 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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When an unidentified rotting corpse is discovered in the old ice house at Streech Grange, the assumption is that the body is that of David Maybury, who went missing 10 years before. As village rumours hint of lesbianism and witchcraft, Sergeant Andy McLoughlin's investigation, focusing on Maybury's ex-wife, Phoebe, and the two women who live with her in the Grange, uncovers numerous secrets - some of which people would rather have left buried...
DIRECTED BY TIME FYWELL
PRODUCED BY SUZAN HARRISON
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CHRIS PARR
DRAMATISED BY LIZZIE MICKERY FROM THE NOVEL BY MINETTE WALTERS MUSIC SPECIALLY COMPOSED BY DAVID FERGUSON
A BBC CO-PRODUCTION WITH BBC WORLDWIDE, SHOWCASE CANADA & WGBH OBSTON
ORIGINALLY TRANSMITTED 5TH AND 6TH APRIL 1997
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'The Ice House' (1998) is a truly remarkable venture, both in terms of plot and of characterization.
As far as the slowly unfolding plot is concerned, the film is second to hardly any of the British (TV) mysteries of past decades, such as 'Inspector Morse', 'Silent Witness', 'Inspector Lynley' etc. It is based upon mystery writer Minette Walter's novel of the same name (1997) and it features 007 superstar Daniel Craig - then still largely unknown outside Britain. Craig stars as a police officer who crosses the lines once too often and certainly finds his match in Kitty Aldridge. Aldridge, wife of musician Mark Knopfler, who has quit film-making to become a full-time writer by now, plays a mysteriously attractive suspect among a number of suspects in a tricky murder case.
All the main characters are portrayed in a truly convincing yet cinematically appropriate way. Right from the very beginning the film psychologically probes the dark sides of human nature keeping the viewer in tight suspense right to the very end.
It's not the ice house of the title that chill is emanated from - it's the abyss of the human soul !
Definitely worth seeing.
As far as the slowly unfolding plot is concerned, the film is second to hardly any of the British (TV) mysteries of past decades, such as 'Inspector Morse', 'Silent Witness', 'Inspector Lynley' etc. It is based upon mystery writer Minette Walter's novel of the same name (1997) and it features 007 superstar Daniel Craig - then still largely unknown outside Britain. Craig stars as a police officer who crosses the lines once too often and certainly finds his match in Kitty Aldridge. Aldridge, wife of musician Mark Knopfler, who has quit film-making to become a full-time writer by now, plays a mysteriously attractive suspect among a number of suspects in a tricky murder case.
All the main characters are portrayed in a truly convincing yet cinematically appropriate way. Right from the very beginning the film psychologically probes the dark sides of human nature keeping the viewer in tight suspense right to the very end.
It's not the ice house of the title that chill is emanated from - it's the abyss of the human soul !
Definitely worth seeing.
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