Monday 4 June 2012

The Shooting Party (1985)

The Shooting Party (1985)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088111/
Drama, Romance
Alan Bridges
James Mason, John Gielgud, Cheryl Campbell, Edward Fox, Rupert Frazer, Robert Hardy, Gordon Jackson, Dorothy Tutin, Aharon Ipalé, Joris Stuyck, Rebecca Saire, Sarah Badel, Judi Bowker, John J. Carney, Ann Castle
September 1985 (USA)
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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