Minette Walters Collection - 5-DVD Boxset ( The Ice House / The Echo / The Dark Room / The Sculptress / The Scold's Bridle )

Minette Walters Collection - 5-DVD Boxset (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Ice House / The Echo / The Dark Room / The Sculptress / The Scold's Bridle
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
782 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1996 - 1999 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Tim Fywell
Diarmuid Lawrence
Graham Theakston
Stuart Orme
David Thacker

Written By:
Lizzie Mickery
Minette Walters
Kevin Hood
Niall Leonard
Reg Gadney
Tony Bicât

Actors:
Daniel Craig ..... D.S. Andy McLoughlin
Corin Redgrave ..... D.C.I. George Walsh
Kitty Aldridge ..... Anne Cattrell
Frances Barber ..... Diana Goode
Penny Downie ..... Phoebe Maybury
Dave Hill ..... Fred Phillips
Gerard Horan ..... D.S. Robinson
Ann Bell ..... Molly Phillips
Luke Garrett ..... P.C. Williams
Niven Boyd ..... Dr. Webster
Paul Jerrico ..... David Maybury (as Paul Jerricho)
Jack Galloway ..... Paddy Clarke
Belinda Sinclair ..... Eileen Clarke
Anthony May ..... Peter Barnes
Liam McKenna ..... Eddie Staines
Clive Owen ..... Michael Deacon
Joely Richardson ..... Amanda Powell
Ian Bartholomew ..... D.S. Anderson
Selina Cadell ..... Emma
Richard Johnson ..... Lawrence
Kevin Knapman ..... Terry
Barbara Leigh-Hunt ..... Mrs. Deacon
Anton Lesser ..... Billy Blake
Stuart McQuarrie ..... Barry
Camilla Power ..... Lisa
Richard Huw ..... Pearce
John Forgeham ..... Charlie
Peter Lorenzelli ..... Tom
Ray Boot ..... Sticky
Clive Brunt ..... Workman
Dervla Kirwan ..... Jane 'Jinx' Kingsley
James Wilby ..... Dr Alan Protheroe
David Baukham ..... Driver
Joseph Bennett ..... Simon Harris
Doreene Blackstock ..... Doctor in Casualty (as Doreen Blackstock)
Lee Brown ..... Paramedic
Penny Bunton ..... Sarah Materson
Pandora Colin ..... Rachel Harris (as Pandora Ormsby-Gore)
Emily Corrie ..... Trish
Craig Crosbie ..... Dr Clark
Joanna David ..... Caroline Harris
Robert Demeger ..... DCI Cheever
Charlie Fane ..... Meg Harris
David Foxxe ..... Andrew Greenhall
Paul Freeman ..... Adam Kingsley
Nicholas Gecks ..... DI Arthur Maddox
Peter Gunn ..... Bernard Weston
Robert Hands ..... Miles Kingsley
Craig Hendry ..... Doorman
Connie Hyde ..... DC Susie Blake
Lee Ingleby ..... Bobby Franklyn
Richard Laing ..... DC Charlie Xavier
Daniel O'Grady ..... Leo Wallader
Bernard Padden ..... Donald Grant
Sarah Reeves ..... Receptionist
Peter Russell ..... Mr Helms
Marlene Sidaway ..... Mrs Helms
Martin Walsh ..... DC Gary Fraser
Pauline Quirke ..... Olive Martin
Caroline Goodall ..... Rosalind 'Roz' Leigh
Christopher Fulford ..... Hal Hawksley
James McCarthy ..... Geoff Wyatt
Lynda Rooke ..... Iris
Maureen Hibbert ..... Prison Officer #2
Sophie Stanton ..... Prison Officer #1
Michael Percival ..... Peter Crew
Dermot Crowley ..... Father Julian
Jay Villiers ..... Rupert
Timothy Bateson ..... Albert Hayes
Maureen O'Brien ..... Sister Bridget
Felicity Finch ..... Sally Wyatt
Angela Belton ..... Dina
John Bowler ..... Estate Agent
Miranda Richardson ..... Dr. Sarah Blakeney
Bob Peck ..... Detective Sergeant Cooper
Douglas Hodge ..... Jack Blakeney
Siân Phillips ..... Mathilda Gillespie
Trudie Styler ..... Joanna Lascelles
Paul Brooke ..... Duncan Orloff
Virginia McKenna ..... Violet Orloff
Beth Winslet ..... Ruth Lascelles
Rosie Wiggins ..... Young Mathilda Gillespie
Johnnie Lyne-Pirkis ..... Sir William Cavendish (as John Duval)
Christine Moore ..... Jenny Spede
Randal Herley ..... Dr. Cameron
Nick Malinowski ..... Young Detective Constable
Alan Williams ..... Bob Spede
Rosemary Martin ..... Jane Merryman

Synopsis:

This boxset contains five dramatisations of Minette Walters stories, featuring: The Ice House; The Scolds Bridle; The Echo; The Dark Room and The Sculptress.

The Ice House (Dir. Tim Fywell, 1997): Since the disappearance of her husband, David, ten years earlier, Phoebe Maybury had been under suspicion and Inspector Jack Walsh had mounted an intensive investigation, but in the absence of a corpse the case had remained unsolved. The discovery of a body in the ice house, ten years on, is only the start of a dark, complex and chilling tale.

The Scold's Bridle (Dir. David Thacker, 1998): It was the scold's bridle, decorated with nettles and daisies and strapped to the old woman's face, that made Dr Sarah Blakeney shiver. In the Middle Ages it had been an instrument of torture for curbing the tongues of nagging women...

The Echo (Dir. Diarmuid Lawrence, 1998): Homeless Billy Blake - pavement artist, poet, drunk and occasional thief - is found starved to death in the garage of wealthy architect Amanda Powell. How long had he been holed up there, just yards from food and shelter? What led him to Amanda's home? How did this seemingly well-educated man fall upon such hard times? Why are his hands and forearms scarred and misshapen by burns? And why did Amanda insist n paying for the funeral?
It emerges that Amanda's husband disappeared some years ago, along with £10m. from the merchant bank where he worked, while her sometime lover Nigel DeVriess made a killing by buying out the software company implicated in the fraud. Billy, meanwhile, bears a striking resemblance to missing diplomat Peter Fenton, whose wife committed suicide after some shock discovery. But if Billy isn't Amanda's husband, what is it that connects them?

The Dark Room (Dir. Graham Theakston, 1999): A tale of lost love, murder and amnesia, surrounding a young female fashion reporter, Jane Kingsley (Dervla Kirwan). After being unceremoniously jilted by her fiance, she goes into a coma, only to wake to allegations that she attempted to commit suicide, and that she also faces a murder charge...

The Sculptress (Dir. Stuart Orme, 1996): Twenty Two Stone Olive Martin (Pauline Quirke), earned her nickname 'The Sculptress', because of the gruesome way in which she killed and disembowelled her mother and sister.

When Rosalind 'Ros' Leigh (Caroline Goodall), is commissioned to write a book about Olive and when she first meets her in prison cannot hide her fear. But gradually she starts to believe that Olive is innocent. And if Olive didn't do it, who did?

When Ros meets ex-policeman Hal Hawksley (Christopher Fulford), who found Olive and the bodies, her confusion deepens. She embarks on a dangerous investigation that unravels a web of corruption and lies - and puts her own life at risk...

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 03 June, 2009.

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