1941, Lt. Ogleby (Ian Carmichael) is the cheerfully inept officer in charge of a searchlight battery codenamed ‘Lionheart’ stationed at a requisitioned cricket ground. His detail is led by officious ‘Thommo’ Tomlinson (Victor Maddern) who tries his best to keep his troops attention on the aircraft-spotting task in hand. He’s joined bymusic-hall cabaret act the McGaffey Brothers...
The title refers to the nine strokes of a church bell to announce the death of a man. In this adaptation of Dorothy L. Sayers's intricate, nostalgic, and atmospheric novel of the same name, Lord Peter Wimsey, stranded in a New-Year's Eve snowstorm ca. 1930 in the fens of eastern England, becomes the guest of a local clergyman, an adept enthusiast of the esoteric, mathematical a...
When one of the more venerable members of the Bellona Club passes away in the reading room, Lord Peter Wimsey is brought in to determine the time of death for testamentary purposes. But the more he investigates, the more complicated things seem. Written by Kathy Li