John Woolley (jwoolley@dna420.mcit.com)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 09:08:49 -0600 (MDT)
Noirest thing I ever saw on TV was a 13-hour miniseries
called
"Game, Set, and Match", taken from three of Len Deighton's
spy novels and directed by Patrick Lau. Bleak and awful,
morally ambiguous, suffused with a terrible nostalgia, and
each episode introduced with a spectacular cello theme that
seemed to embody all the world's sadness. Ian Holm was
magnificent, Mel Martin heartbreaking and lovely and
brilliant, the entire cast very very good.
I don't know if it's available on videotapes. It should
be.
-- Fr. John Woolley
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