Maggie Smith

Michael Gambon

Kristin Scott Thomas

Camilla Rutherford

Charles Dance

Geraldine Somerville

Tom Hollander

Natasha Wightman

Jeremy Northam

Bob Balaban

James Wilby

Claudie Blakley

Laurence Fox

Trent Ford

Ryan Phillippe

Stephen Fry

Ron Webster

Kelly Macdonald

Clive Owen

Helen Mirren

Eileen Atkins

Emily Watson

Alan Bates

Derek Jacobi

Richard E. Grant

Jeremy Swift

Sophie Thompson

Meg Wynn Owen

Adrian Scarborough

Frances Low

Joanna Maude

Teresa Churcher

Sarah Flind

Finty Williams

Emma Buckley

Lucy Cohu

Laura Harling

Tilly Gerrard

Will Beer

Leo Bill

Gregor Henderson-Begg

John Atterbury

Frank Thornton

Ron Puttock

Adrian Preater

John Cox

Ken Davies

Tony Davies

Steve Markham

Terry Sturmey

Julian Such

Alan Bland

Peter Champion

Geoff Double

Robin Devereux

John Fountain

Richard Gamble

Brian Rumsey

George Sherman

Natalie Danks-Smith

Andrew Dunn

Stephen Altman

Anna Pinnock

Jenny Beavan

Robert Altman

David Levy

Sarah Hauldren

Sharon Harel-Cohen

Jane Barclay

Tim Squyres

Mary Selway

Hannah Leader

Patrick Doyle

Robert Jones

Julian Fellowes

Peter Glossop

John Frankish

Penny Eyles

Peter Taylor

Alistair Thompson

Robin O'Donoghue

Joshua Astrachan

Jan Archibald

Sue Quinn

Nigel Mills

Richard Street

Jane Frazer

Tori Parry

Sallie Jaye

Richard Styles

Robert Ireland

Andie Derrick

John Cochrane

Paul Carr

John Fewell

Peter Burgis

Ed Colyer

Loulia Sheppard

Astrid Schikorra

Eric Scruby

Anita Burger

Kate Holloway

Deborah Jarvis

Norma Webb

Sharon Martin

John Porter

Sara Desmond

Amanda Pollack

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Mystery

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Gosford Park

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United States of America

English

england

servant

butler

lordship

country estate

inspector

industrialist

money

murder

countess

maid

housekeeper

valet

shooting party

illegitimate child

child given up for adoption

master servant relationship

upstairs downstairs

1930s

6/10 Good acting and a solid plot for a murder mystery, but has at least 20-30 minutes of scenes that could have been trimmed, esp as it takes 90min for the murder to occur.  I had figured out the key points and was falling asleep at the end...I'm still tired now, writing this.

CinemaSerf

I remember watching this and thinking it reminded me of a very exclusive game of Cleudo! The great and the (not so) good assemble at the stately home of "Sir William McCordle" (Sir Michael Gambon). Now what becomes clear as this gathering gets steadily more sloshed and satiated is that their host has been subsidising many of these high-class scroungers for quite a while and some have become a bit more dependent than others. What might they do to secure a share of his loot? Might they even slay the fatted calf himself? Well that's the mystery part that Julian Fellowes and an on-form Robert Altman deliver in this quite quirkily crafted upstairs/downstairs whodunit that swipes at just about everyone from all levels of the social scale using cruelty, lust and loads of dark, often sarcastic, humour in the process. Ryan Philippe is the obvious fish out of water amongst their glittering array of Knights and Dames, but he brings a freshness to his rather odious character ("Denton") and in many ways provides a good foil to the otherwise rather well trammelled plot portrayal of the landed vacuous and the well meaning; the pompous and the selfish. It is well written and well paced after a bit of a slow start that serves to introduce just one too many a character all at once. Kristin Scott Thomas is a natural for these sort of parts; Stephen Fry delivers effectively as the policeman "Thompson" and, of course, Dame Maggie Smith is another who takes to these roles like the proverbial duck to water. Now it is a bit long, but when juggling so many characters, potential red herrings, character assassinations and general mischief then I think this is probably about the shortest it could be. It sustains the momentum once it's got up an head of steam, looks splendid and is comfortably amongst the best of the period drama genre - without, thankfully, a sign of Jane Austen!

Gosford Park( 2001)

Tea at four. Dinner at eight. Murder at midnight.

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Written by sykobanana on Sat May 16 2020

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