Murder on the Home Front

Holly Atkins (Actor), Joey Batey (Actor), Geoffrey Sax (Director) Format: DVD

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2.4 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Behind the scenes, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Set during the London Blitz of 1940, Murder on the Home Front is a vibrant, original crime drama. This is a world where people live life in the moment. It is also a world where criminals can use the blackout and devastation to hide their darkest activities. As the Luftwaffe drop their bombs, below people are literally getting away with murder. Dr Lennox Collins (Patrick Kennedy) is a pathologist new to murder cases, obsessed with pursuing the truth through all means available. He is often at the cutting edge of new thinking in pathology from chemical tests to the controversial inclusion of the study of the psyche. Molly Cooper (Tamzin Merchant) is not only the first secretary to a pathologist, she is the first woman allowed into a very male world. All Lennox knows is that she has a strong stomach, 60 words a minute and a keen brain. When together they discover a serial killer at large under cover of the Blitz, Lennox has his work cut out convincing the police to have faith in his methods and theories. ...Murder on the Home Front

Product details

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Director ‏ : ‎ Geoffrey Sax

Media Format ‏ : ‎ Import, PAL, Widescreen

Run time ‏ : ‎ 91 minutes

Actors ‏ : ‎ Holly Atkins, Joey Batey, Susie Blake, John Bowe, Richard Bremmer

Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0)

Studio ‏ : ‎ Universal

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00FKQF0EK

Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Aremess
Very good thriller with a touch of humour too
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 September 2013
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Bought this for my wife and she pressured me into watching it too. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. OK there were a few poor bits like the 'rough house teenager' who looked like a male model in his make up and too-good-looking clothes, but these were no distraction from the programme being a well constructed and enjoyable thriller based on the early days of British Forensic Science.

One day, forensic pathologist Dr Keith Simpson asks a keen young journalist to be his secretary. Molly Cooper, although none too keen on being a secretary, is intrigued to find out exactly what goes on behind a mortuary door.

'Miss Molly' quickly becomes indispensible to Dr Simpson as he meticulously pursues the truth. Accompanying him from the morgues to some gruesome crime scenes, Molly observes and assists as he uncovers the secrets that the victims keep.

Molly's character is based on the real Molly, Molly Lefebure, on whose memoirs of these early forensic days the series is based.

A very good programme to watch.
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J O MAYNARD
Sloppy research
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 March 2015
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I enjoyed the first part of this, but the second part was a disappointment because the scenario became too implausible. The basic plot becomes completely unbelievable, given that if the skills possessed by a dangerous criminal made him too valuable to hang, the authorities could have availed his skills more effectively by banging him up than leaving him loose. In terms of background, the scenes in the Aldwych Tube are patently inauthentic: anyone who knows anything about the Blitz knows that the underground platforms were packed with bodies, and the idea that deeper tunnels leading off an underground station, which were open for the public to walk into, would have been left empty is laughable.
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Silverroom
A very disappointing version of the book which deserved better.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 September 2018
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I was as disappointed in this as I was when I watched it in the tv. I read the book and felt that they could have made much more of her stories. Particularly how awful some of the crimes were, how difficult it was to do some of the its mortems and how involved the secretary was in collecting specimens and bagging them up. Now we have a full CSI team doing what this young lady did in the war. Overall a very disappointing hours worth of film.
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K.CUNNINGHAM
Futuristic 1940's
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 March 2014
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Well this was certainly different. If your expecting a slow pace, reasonably nice 1940's whodunnit then look elsewhere because this is no Foyle or Bletchley Circle, and I mean that in a good way.
The style of the show is colorful, bold and loud. It completely throws you because there's nothing quite like this on TV in this era. So watch this with no preconception's and you'll enjoy.
The team doesn't flow as well as the Bletchley lot or Foyle but they are a great cast nonetheless.
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J. F. Nasmyth Miller
A good story, but view with caution!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 May 2018
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This is a good story and frightening if it is based on facts, rather than a figment of the author's imagination. There are, however, some glaring inconsistencies in some of the portrayals of events of the time, probably only likely to be recognized by viewers like myself who actually lived through those times.
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