Brother Cadfael Series 2 Box Set: The Devil's Novice,St. Peter's Fair and The Virgin in the Ice [VHS]
by Herbert Wise, Malcolm Mowbray, Richard Stroud, Sebastian Graham Jones
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Actor: Derek Jacobi, Julian Firth, Julian Glover, Michael Culver, Terrence HardimanDirector: Herbert Wise, Malcolm Mowbray, Richard Stroud, Sebastian Graham Jones
Writer: Christopher Russell
Writer: Edith Pargeter
Writer: Russell Lewis
Writer: Simon Burke
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 225 minutes
Release Date: 1999-09-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Acorn Media
Studio: Acorn Media
VHS Movie Reviews of Brother Cadfael Series 2 Box Set: The Devil's Novice,St. Peter's Fair and The Virgin in the Ice [VHS]
Movie Review: The intrepid Benedictine returns
Summary: 4 Stars
There were only two things I disliked about this series 1. No Sean Pertwee 2. The programme makers were limited to 75 minutes per episode.
Other than that it was excellent. Authentic and compelling like series one, with more original mysteries for the unlikely sleuth to solve. This really is top class entertainment, and I think, badly under appreciated.
Virgin in the Ice: Brother Oswine and a young nun take refuge from a snowstorm in an abandoned barn, which proves to be anything but a place of safety. Two children disappear, and a group of marauding bandits are wreaking havoc in the Shrewsbury countryside. With the help of Oliver de Bretange, a man-at-arms fresh from the crusade, Cadfael must find the vulnerable children, and solve a murder, before the worst happens.
The Devil's Novice: An itenerant monk visits his relatives in Shrewsbury, and brings trouble with him. Shortly afterwards the younger son of the house is bought to the abbey with the apparent desire to become a monk. The brothers soon discover the novice is haunted by terrible nightmares, and his motives for coming to the abbey may be anything but pure. As Cadfael searches for the truth he uncovers a hotbed of deceit, blind ambition and treachery.
A morbid taste for Bones: The annual fair comes to Shrewsbury, and the townsfolk petition the Abbot for a share of the profits. His reluctance to concede leads to resentment, dissent and threats of violence. When a merchant if found murdered is appears that fair has bought out the worst in the people of Shrewsbury.
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Summary of Brother Cadfael Series 2 Box Set: The Devil's Novice,St. Peter's Fair and The Virgin in the Ice [VHS]
Never tell Brother Cadfael, the medieval mystery-solving monk, your theory of how a crime "must" have been committed. "We must always be wary of 'must,'" he states. "Nothing is certain." And so attest these three divine mysteries based on the books by Ellis Peters and originally broadcast in the U.S. on the PBS series Mystery! Each feature-length episode in this boxed set is self-contained but plays against the backdrop of England's civil war between forces loyal to King Stephen and those to Empress Maud. Derek Jacobi (I, Claudius, Gladiator) stars as Cadfael, who at one point is aptly described as "an odd kind of monk." The former "soldier, sailor, sinner, and Crusader" has his faith tested by crimes of royal intrigue and baffling murders that seem to plague the neutral ground of 12th-century Shrewsbury. The best of the three, "The Virgin in the Ice," is a good introduction for Cadfael initiates. This story of "violence and cruelty" involves the near-fatal beating of a young monk, the murder of a nun, and the disappearance of two children. Viewers' advisory: one of the chapters in the scene selection menu on the DVD contains a major spoiler. The "strange difficulties" continue in "The Devil's Novice," in which Cadfael's suspicions about a recently arrived novice are heightened by the murder of the bishop's chaplain. Finally, the local merchants are revolting, and the murder of two tradesmen further mar the festivities in "St. Peter's Fair." All three episodes costar Eoin McCarthy as local undersheriff Hugh Beringar, who relies on Cadfael when murder subverts his efforts to keep the peace. A tense standoff between these two friends heightens the climax of "St. Peter's Fair." Americans have never seen a sleuth such as Cadfael, a fascinating character who is at once a man of God, of science, and even of action. You'll find few Benedictine monks so skilled at using a quarterstaff. --Donald LiebensonDrama VHS Video
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