The Shooting Party

The Shooting Party (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Moscow International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
97 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1985 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Alan Bridges

Written By:
Julian Bond
Isabel Colegate (novel)

Actors:
James Mason ..... Sir Randolph Nettleby
Edward Fox ..... Lord Gilbert Hartlip
Dorothy Tutin ..... Lady Minnie Nettleby
John Gielgud ..... Cornelius Cardew, Amimal Rights Nut
Gordon Jackson ..... Tom Harker the Poacher
Cheryl Campbell ..... Lady Aline Hartlip
Robert Hardy ..... Lord Bob Lilburn
Aharon Ipalé ..... Sir Reuben Hergesheimer
Joris Stuyck ..... Count Tibor Rakassyi
Rebecca Saire ..... Cicely Nettleby
Sarah Badel ..... Ida Nettleby
Rupert Frazer ..... Lionel Stephens
Judi Bowker ..... Lady Olivia Lilburn
John J. Carney ..... Jarvis
Ann Castle ..... Lady Mildred Stamp

Synopsis:

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.

This British Merchant-Ivory look-alike was adapted from a novel by Isabel Colgate. In the summer before World War I, British nobleman James Mason invites an assorted group of acquaintances for a weekend shooting party on his huge estate. Among the participants are longtime rivals Edward Fox and Rupert Frazer, Fox's occasionally unfaithful wife Cheryl Campbell, and staunch anti-hunting advocate John Gielgud. The film unfolds in a carefully calculated but seemingly spontaneous fashion, in the manner of its 1938 ancestor Rules of the Game. Also like the earlier film, The Shooting Party casts a jaundiced eye towards class consciousness - and ends with a sudden, senseless but not altogether unexpected tragedy.

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.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.

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