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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: BBC Warner
Salesrank: 144150
Released: May 13, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Behind his distinctive owlish glasses and gentle, deceptive naivete, Albert Campion conceals a passion for excitement and danger. Peter Davison (All Creatures Great and Small, Doctor Who) plays Margery Allingham's enigmatic sleuth, with Brian Glover as his loyal but slightly shady manservant in these classic mysteries set in the 1930's. Albert Campion discovers that an old school chum, whose funeral he attended, might not be dead after all. Coincidentally, he receives an urgent plea from an old flame to solve another puzzling murder. Could the two be connected?
Description of Campion - The Case of the Late Pig:
The Case of the Late Pig, one of the best of the BBC adaptations of Margery Allingham's mystery novels of the 1930s, takes her whimsical gentleman sleuth Albert Campion (Peter Davison) and his cantankerous ex-con manservant Lugg (Brian Glover) into the British countryside, where they encounter the usual collection of ridiculous personalities, improbable murders, and unexpected narrative twists--this time featuring a childhood bully, mysterious poetic letters, a human corpse replaced by a dead pig, and some very important ice cubes. Thanks to particularly sharp writing and dramatic flair, The Case of the Late Pig achieves the perfect mix of suspense and self-satire that marks Allingham's mysteries; and since one of the suspects is an old flame of Campion's, it allows Davison the opportunity to play more than just his usual investigative relish and slightly macabre humor. Topnotch. --Bret Fetzer
Campion - The Case of the Late Pig Reviews:
This little piggy went to market 
2009-02-22 - Once again, BBC outdoes its self with adapting books to TV. This time it is with a Margery Allingham mystery, Camion. Screenplay by Jill Hyem.
Peter Davison as Albert Campion and his faithful companion Brian Glover as Magersfontein Lugg are so good in this 1989 TV series that even when you read the book you think of them. I have to admit that I have not read this book yet.
Campion receives a mysterious letter from "The Mole" it tells him of a school acquaintance (nicknamed Piggy) that just passed away. Campion go to the funeral and there hears a snorting sound that piggy used to make clearing his throat (thus the nickname). We get close up views of characters that are suspect. Campion thinks little of this until three months late with it looks like piggy died again.
Is Piggy really dead this time or did we hear another snort? Moreover, what is this all about?
Campion - The Complete First Season
pretty good 
2008-01-27 - I enjoyed this movie, but if you don't like English mysteries this wouldn't be your cup of tea. I like the characters the best.
