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Singing Detective [3 Discs]

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Released: 2003-04-15

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Singing Detective [3 Discs] DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Niven Boyd, David Thewlis, Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Janet Suzman, Alison Steadman, Alison Steadman, Jim Carter, Bill Paterson, Joanne Whalley, Imelda Staunton, David Ryall, Gerard Horan, Leslie French, Ron Cook, George Rossi, Kate McKenzie

Director(s): Jon Amiel

Features:
Commentary by director Jon Amiel and producer Kenith Trodd
"Dennis Potter: Under the Skin": An exclusive documentary on the life and career of Dennis Potter
A rarely seen interview featuring Dennis Potter's personal recollections of The Singing Detective
Four-page booklet featuring an exclusive essay by esteemed critic David Bianculli
Photo gallery
"Points of View" articles
Cast bios
And more
Singing Detective [3 Discs] DVD Details
Subtitles:
English
Running Time: 450
Genre: Movie Mystery Suspense Thriller
Item Weight: 4
UPC: 794051169921
Product Code: BBCW1699DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1986
Studio: Bbc Warner
Singing Detective [3 Discs] DVD Summary With the notable exception of Pennies From Heaven, The Singing Detective was the best-known TV miniseries project of the iconoclastic, darkly humored Dennis Potter.

A reworking of Potter's first novel Hide and Seek, the six-part series starred Michael Gambon as crime novelist Philip E.

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Suffering from a hellish skin-and-nerve disease called psoriatic arthroparthy (a painful infliction which ultimately killed the real-life Potter), Marlow was confined to a hospital bed, whe