Wednesday, 18 August 2021

Promised Land (1991 John Madden)

Written by Julian Mitchell. They have more of a measured tempo these Morses than you'll find in Endeavour and it's not just the extra quarter hour running time.  Morse really is a bastard, but he cares as well, and Robbie knows that.

It's made like a knowing pastiche of a western, with Barrington's slide guitar all over the place.

Liked Madden's lateral track which shows Morse in western showdown walk, then reveals armed cop, then reveals the wife and Lewis - moving the camera to tell a story.


With Thaw and Whately are Con O'Neill, Rhondda Findleton, John Jarratt and Noah Taylor.


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