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Dandelion Dead (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

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

Running Time:
204 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1994 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Mike Hodges

Written By:
Michael Chaplin

Actors:
Michael Kitchen ..... Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong
Sarah Miles ..... Catherine Armstrong
David Thewlis ..... Oswald Martin
Lesley Sharp ..... Constance 'Connie' Martin, née Davies
Peter Vaughan ..... Dr. Hinks
Diana Quick ..... Marion Glassford-Gale
Bernard Hepton ..... Mr. Davies
Don Henderson ..... Chief Inspector Crutchett
Robert Stephens ..... Henry Vaughan
Chloe Tucker ..... Eleanor Armstrong
Alexandra Milman ..... Margaret Armstrong
Joseph Steel ..... Pearson Armstrong
Lucy Jenkins ..... Inez
Roger Lloyd-Pack ..... Phillips
Patrick Godfrey ..... Griffiths

Synopsis:

Hay on Wye, England, 1921. The serenity of this small country town is about to be shattered by a shocking revelation about one of its leading citizens. Major Herbert Armstrong is a man equally proud of his work in the justice system as he is of his beautiful garden. But he is a man at war. A pillar of the community, Armstrong is in conflict on three fronts: he constantly argues with his bad-tempered, domineering wife; has regular skirmishes with his bright and ambitious business rival; and wages a war of attrition against the dandelions that have colonised his beloved lawn... His dandelion problem is easily solved with small, delicately placed servings of arsenic. Perhaps his other problems can be treated with the same method?

This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 14 June, 2015.