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The Shooting Party (1985)

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Director:

Alan Bridges

Starring:

Gordon Jackson, John Gielgud, Edward Fox, James Mason

Genres:

Drama, UK Premier

Origin:

United Kingdom

Certificate:

PG

Running Time:

98 min

The Shooting Party

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.

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GREAT AND SOMBRE FILM
Peter Sherlock
15 January 2014
member rating

Very dour but shows the breaking down of a centuries old UK class structure and some of the foibles in the different then levels. Superb ensemble cast, with John Gielgud acting very well out of type. James Mason is particularly good. Shot in subdued colours which also reflects country UK at that season.

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