City of Vice - Series 1 [2008]

Customer Reviews:

I loved this series.......2008-02-23

The best historical TV series for years !
Ian and Iain are marvellous as the Fieldings.
I hope there's another series soon.
So glad it's available on DVD

The Dark Underbelly of London.......2008-02-19

This series first shown on Channel 4 is a real delight for anyone interested in history, the police force or gritty crime dramas. For once an historical crime series has been made that has the grittiness of more modern programmes. The acting is excellent and the storylines are strong.

Welcome to the dark underbelly of London where crime is rife and only the City's watchmen exist. Enter the Fielding brothers who created the Bow Street Runners, the precursor to todays CID. This series, created by using accounts from the time show that the Fieldings had enough trouble to keep getting a budget as they did fighting the criminals of the day. In an age where to even mention a police force in London would have been seen by the Mob to be despotism, this series shows the fine line that had to be trod by the Bow Street Runners just to solve a case, let alone bring someone to the Tyburn Tree.

Let us hope that another series wil be made, as this is really a gem, and the kind of series that has kept myself and others enthralled.

London at its best and worst.......2008-02-04

This is a superb series. No praise can be too high for the combination of outstanding acting and fascinating plot lines. The descriptions and acoount of the 'molly houses' of London and gay weddings is historically absolutely accurate.Nigel Harman shows just how good an actor he is playing the submissive 'Miss Kitty'. Also, harris and his list, again, beyond reproach in historical accuracy. No only a pioneering history drama, as far from twee Jane Austen adaptations as you can get, but a real insight into the horrors of Old London.

The steamy underbelly of 18th Century London.......2008-02-02

So far this Channel 4 drama has proved to be a fascinating insight into the professional life of Henry Fielding - the author of Tom Jones and creator of the Bow Street Runners- an early version of the police force. According to Channel 4's site, for once this is not a dramatisation of a particular book, but a drama created from the contemporary records. Drawing on information such as Harris' Lists- a guidebook to the whores of London.

Ian McDiarmid displays his usual consummate acting (well from someone who ranges from the evil emperor in Star Wars to the butler in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels- what would you expect?) Iain Glen ably supports as his blind brother John. What is so fascinating is how totally out of their depth they are when faced with murderers and scary Irish gang leaders. I really like the touch of using a 3D map of the contemporary city to set the changes of scene in context. Worthy historical drama.

Average customer rating:

A really fun and silly film, brill!!

Basket Case 3 - The Progeny [1991]
Starring: Kevin Van Hentenryck , Annie Ross , Gil Roper , Dan Biggers , and Jim O'Doherty
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Manufacturer: Synergy
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00004UEYM
Release Date: 2000-07-24

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A really fun and silly film, brill!!.......2001-02-13

Basket Case 3 is very strange, and it is not like usual movies! i enjoyed this movie because it is unlike any other film! it is very original and unless you have seen BC 1 or 2 then you wont have or probably will never see anything quite like this again!! hmmm where have i seen the ending before!!

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