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Marlow faces his personal misery of the talking cure with the psychologist. 3. Lovely Days. Marlow thinks back to his childhood and remembers seeing his mother having illicit sex. 4. Clues. 5 ...
Clues: Directed by Jon Amiel. With Michael Gambon, Janet Suzman, Patrick Malahide, Alison Steadman. In his novel, Marlow has contacted the police and they have taken the dead woman away.
- (95)
- Drama, Musical, Mystery
- Jon Amiel
- 1986-12-07
Skin. 1/6 A patient struggles to keep his sanity while his alter ego, a private eye, keeps singing.
The Singing Detective. Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: Nov 30, 2022 (10 min) Alison Steadman looks back at Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective, hailed as one of the most important and influential TV dramas ever made, and once described by Stephen King as ‘television's Citizen Kane'. From memories of happy times working with leading man ...
As a result of constant pain, a fever caused by the condition and his refusal to take medication, Marlow falls into a fantasy world involving his Chandleresque novel The Singing Detective, an escapist and noir adventure about a detective (also named "Philip Marlow") who sings at a dance hall and takes the jobs refused by "the guys who don't sing". Marlow is "plot-dreaming", trying out various ...
Sun, Nov 16, 1986 70 mins. A six-part British miniseries following the thoughts of mystery writer Philip Marlow (Michael Gambon), who's in a hospital with a debilitating case of psoriasis. In the ...
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The best-known work of celebrated TV dramatist Dennis Potter, The Singing Detective is actually the second of a trilogy of series by Potter using the device of lip-synching to well-known recordings of popular music. The first, set in the 1930s, was Pennies from Heaven (1978), the third, set during the 1956 Suez Crisis, was Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). The Singing Detective focusses ...
