| | |  | GIFT SETS | Home » » Brother Cadfael Series 3 Box Set: The Rose Rent, A Morbid Taste for Bones, and The Raven in the Foregate [VHS] | | | | | | | Description: | | "Jacobi blends a cherub's benign charm with a sly spirit of divine intuition as crime-solving Brother Cadfael." - USA Today. "Enchanting!...medieval England comes marvelously to life." - The Washington Post. Sir Derek Jacobi returns as the sleuthing 12th century monk in Ellis Peters' bestselling tales of Brother Cadfael. Cadfael has served as a soldier in the Crusades, trained in medicine, and even fathered a child. Now he is a man of the cloth, but his devotion to the Church cannot suppress his passion for solving earthly mysteries. Set against the harsh climate of civil war in the middle ages, Cadfael tries to bring order to a world where murder is commonplace and men in holy orders are suspected of evil. Includes A Morbid Taste for Bones, The Raven in the Foregate and The Rose Rent. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Cadfael | | Format:
| Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC | | Number of Tapes:
| 3 | | Studio:
| Acorn Media | | VHS Tape Release Date:
| September 11, 1999 | | Run Time:
| 255 minutes | | Average Customer Rating:
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 Misses the MarkJul 14, 2010
Unfortunately the producers of this series took a bad turn when they produced these three titles. They chose to not follow the books at all. All of the titles are much darker than the books which are very positive about human nature. The bad guys have been made evil and the entire production is more sinister than Ellis Peters intended. Her message was always that people were basically good and redeemable where these movies emphasize the evil and downplay or even omit the good. Even Cadfael is portrayed as more violent and angry then he ever is in the books. I own all of the series and love the first 7 which were much more positive. These combine characters and sometimes even change the characters from angelic to demonic. There was no excuse for this. The stories Ellis Peters wrote were excellent these renditions are lame to bad. Perhaps, had they stay true to the original author's intent, they could have made the other 7 books too.
The show quality is good, both sound and visual, but the stories make it so that I can't highly recommend them.
cadfaelAug 20, 2009
Of course, it's better to read the book, BUT, if you haven't, know that this video of "A Morbid Taste For Bones" is the next best thing. The attention to historical detail, the music, the quality of the performances, etc. make this a movie I can watch over and over. Follows the book exceedingly well, which is sometimes done so badly. Just as Jeremy Brett IS Holmes, Derek Jacobi IS Cadfael. If you can only own a handful of Cadfaels, make sure you own this one!
Great mystery viewing!Aug 14, 2009
Fast delivery of these great BBC mysteries! Since there are only 13 of them, we savor them (much like I rationed out the Harry Potter books), enjoying the costumes, scenery, and, most of all, the ex-crusader turned monk, Brother Cadfael.
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wonderful stories,great actingMar 08, 2009
These are some of my favorite BBC television shows. The setting is wonderful and the acting superb. Some purist have rightly stated that the video quality could be much better but I have enjoyed these programs and will
soon be sending them to a friend. I have VHS copies but plan on getting the DVDs. Highly reccommended.
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 Medieval mysteriesJan 19, 2008
These three mysteries, based in England during the Middle Ages, are really quite well done. Of the three I think A Morbid Taste For Bones was probably the best.
The Cadfael mysteries are not just good mysteries; they also provide an interesting look at life in the Middle Ages and how things were done, the role of the Church, Royal officers, etc.
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