T|-|E S!NG!NG |)ETECT! \/E 1986 EPISODE4 PT7 CLUES

Reworking material from his first novel, "Hide and Seek" (1973), and folding this into a prismatic blend of autobiographical details, popular music and 1940s film noir, Dennis Potter delivered a drama now regarded as a 20th-century masterwork. Detective novelist Philip Marlow (Michael Gambon) suffers from the crippling disease of psoriatic arthropathy. Confined to a hospital bed, Marlow mentally rewrites his early Chandleresque thriller, "The Singing Detective," with himself in the title role, drifting into a surreal 1945 fantasy of spies and criminals, along with vivid memories of a childhood in the Forest of Dean. As past events and 1940s songs surface in his subconscious, Marlow's voyage of self-discovery provides a key to conquering his illness, while his noir-styled hallucinations evoke the Philip Marlowe of Chandler's "Murder, My Sweet" (1944), starring Dick Powell, who later became a "singing detective" on radio's "Richard Diamond, Private Detective" (1949), crooning to girlfriend Helen Asher at the end of each episode.

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Film & Animation

Tags:

• DRAMA

[niecey4291]

the teacher looks like a man in a wig lmao

thumbs up if u noticed

[angelsgurl]

what a great learning environment...

[MorganStack]

Absolutely gripping. Poor Mark Binney.

[nosowisewoman]

not sure if it's just my player, but alot of these clips stop half-way and freeze..good thing i know this by heart, but wow... it's annoying..

[flurry345]

LOL she made that small cute girl jump