The Stalls of Barchester
Directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark
The discovery of a mysterious box in a library leads a scholar to piece together a chain of events leading to the murder of an archdeacon.
An ambitious cleric engineers the murder of an archdeacon.
Cast: Harold Bennett, Clive Swift, Erik Chitty, Robert Hardy, Thelma Barlow
Member Reviews
That man gives the impression he'd be as feral as a weasel in bed, that's so hot I think its the whiskers, very Wind in The Willows
I love M. R. James, and his writing is so sharp and fine that my imagination supplies infinitely scarier moments than can be acted out, or represented by 70’s audio - things like the impression of “movement without sound” in the hallway, and everything that contributes to a solid haunting. This is just boring and cheesy unfortunately.
This is one for the books. The inimitable Robert Hardy and Clive Swift at their best. Wonderful gothic haunted story.
not bad, not as good as the others in this series that i've seen so far, but judging by the year i guess this was the first in the series, so perhaps a bit rough around the edges.
Moody, atmospheric, and with some delicious twists. The British may not be well known for their food, but their ghost stories are hard to match!