The Singing Detective
(El detective cantante)
(Gran Bretaña-Australia, 1986) [Color, 415 m.].
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Ficha técnica.
Dirección: Jon Amiel.
Argumento: Dennis Potter (novela; "Hide and Seek", 1973).
Guión: Dennis Potter.
Fotografía: Ken Westbury.
Música: Stanley Myers.
Producción: John Harris, Rick McCallum, Kenith Trodd
Productora: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) / Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
Sinopsis: Philip E. Marlow es un fracasado escritor de novela negra. Se halla postrado en una cama de hospital, con todo el cuerpo cubierto de dolorosas pústulas producto de una terrible soriasis. Su piel enferma es el reflejo de su alma; un universo plagado de recuerdos de una infancia desdichada, fracasos profesionales y un matrimonio infeliz, por no decir infernal. ¿Le engaña realmente su esposa con otro hombre que además quiere robarle el manuscrito de su mejor novela? Los doctores que le rodean día y noche, ¿son todos unos dementes que estallan continuamente en ataques euforia, improvisando números musicales? ¿o todo es fruto de la atormentara mente de Philip?Miniserie de TV. 6 episodios
1 - Skin.
2 - Heat.
3 - Lovely Days.
4 - Clues.
5 - Pitter Patter.
6 - Who Done It.
Solo una dulce enfermera y un excéntrico doctor parecen dispuestos a ayudarle de escapar de este delirio sardónico. Pero durante su estancia en el hospital Philip empieza a perderse en unos recuerdos en el que el es un detective que además canta en un club de noche y que le persiguen unos gángster a través de unos ambientes de los años cuarenta.
Comentario: Una de las mejores series de televisión de los 80, que realiza un sugerente homenaje al cine negro de los años 30 y 40. Si aún no las has visto, no te la pierdas.
AMG Sinopsis: With the notable exception of Pennies From Heaven, The Singing Detective was the best-known TV miniseries project of the iconoclastic, darkly humored Dennis Potter. A reworking of Potter's first novel Hide and Seek, the six-part series starred Michael Gambon as crime novelist Philip E. Marlow. Suffering from a hellish skin-and-nerve disease called psoriatic arthroparthy (a painful infliction which ultimately killed the real-life Potter), Marlow was confined to a hospital bed, where under the influence of numerous prescription drugs he began to imagine himself as the hard-boiled hero of his latest detective novel. While trying to solve a difficult case, Marlow continually drifted backward in time to his childhood in the Forest of Dean, occasionally bursting into song to express his emotions. As fantasy and reality merged into one, Marlow was forced into a tortuous session of self-analysis and personal discovery. Virtually everyone in the cast was seen in double and triple roles, including nominal leading ladies Alison Steadman and Joanne Whalley (aka Joanne Whalley-Kilmer). The series earned two BAFTA awards (the British equivalent of the Emmys), one for Best Actor to Michael Gambon. After its initial BBC1 run from November 16, to December 21, 1986, The Singing Detective was shown in the United States via public and cable television, where it picked up another award, the prestigious Peabody, in 1989.
AMG Review: Sometimes impenetrable, often heartbreaking, The Singing Detective (1986) was one of the finest programs ever produced for television (the six-hour BBC miniseries was released theatrically in the United States). It and another British television miniseres, Pennies From Heaven (1978), are considered the masterworks of writer Dennis Potter, who brought his obsessions with the era of the 1930s and '40s to life in Brechtian style, creating characters tortured by their painful pasts and grim presents who often broke, paradoxically, into joyous singing and dancing to the catchy, sunny popular songs of the time. Michael Gambon, delivering a nuanced, acerbic performance, stars as the crime novel writer Philip E. Marlow, suffering from psoriasis so acute that he cannot lift a pen and is confined to a hospital where he nevertheless attempts to mentally work on a screenplay version of his most successful book, "The Singing Detective." Marlow is in such enormous pain, however, that his ruminations become hallucinogenic daydreams, blurring the line between his fictional story, his real-life childhood, his predilection for pop music of the Great Depression and World War II periods, and his hospital stay. The blending of these preoccupations leads to characters from his book wandering into his ward, and events from his novel ending up as memories from his past (or is the other way around?). Like most of Potter's work, The Singing Detective is semi-autobiographical (it is also a loose reworking of his first novel, 1973's Hide and Seek). Like Marlow, Potter suffered from acute psoriasis that left him occasionally isolated and unable to work, or to even lift a pen. It seems little coincidence, then, that Potter's fictional counterparts were often miserably confined in some way or secluded from society. Potter is never quite that easy to understand, though: his isolated heroes are also manifestations of the writer's recurring, larger theme of man bound by the decaying physical, but soaring in his mind and spirit, through song and dance, verbal badinage, or the imagination. Though the complexity of the story's elliptical structure and its alternately cynical and sentimental tone would have perplexed many directors, Jon Amiel mastered Potter's material, rendering a work of real depth and lack of pandering, something rarely found on any screen, large or small.
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the.singing.detective.ep1.skin.dvdrip.xvid.fragment.avi 
the.singing.detective.ep2.heat.dvdrip.xvid.fragment.avi the.singing.detective.ep3.lovely.days.dvdrip.xvid.fragment.avi the.singing.detective.ep4.clues.dvdrip.xvid.fragment.avi tse.ep5.pitter.patter.dvdrip.xvid.fragment.avi tsd.ep6.who.done.it.dvdrip.xvid.fragment.avi Subtítulos en inglés:
The singing detective (1986 TV series).subs.EN.srt.rar Subtítulos (descarga directa): castellano / inglés.
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Enlaces relacionados:The Singing Detective (Keith Gordon, 2003) DVDRip VOSE
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Mensaje original
Bueno, pues para quien lo quiera, aquí dejo los e-links de la serie de los 80 en la que se inspiró la peli de Robert Downey Jr. Aviso que aun no me la he bajado, porque tengo la cola muy llena, pero cae seguro seguro:Mensaje original
Episodio 1:
Singing.Detective.1.-.Skin.mpg Otro link para el 1er episodio, pero este parece un fragmento
the_singing_detective_(1986)_e1of3_fragment.avi Episodio 2 (parece que solo está el que puede ser un fragmento):
The.Singing.Detective.Ep2.Heat.DVDrip.XVID.Fragment.avi Episodio 3:
Singing.Detective.3.-.Loverly.Days.mpg Este es el (posible) fragmento:
The.Singing.Detective.Ep3.Lovely.Days.DVDrip.XVID.Fragment.avi Episodio 4:
The.Singing.Detective.-.ep4.-.Clues.-.PAL.-.XviD.-.AC3.avi Episodio 5:
The.Singing.Detective.-.5.-.Pitter.Patter.avi Episodio 6:
The.Singing.Detective.06.-.Who.done.it.avi Los subtitulos que he encontrado son:
the.singing.detective.(1986).-.english.rar the.singing.detective.ep1.skin.dvdrip.xvid.fragment-Subs.zip The.Singing.Detective.Ep1.-.Skin.Fragment.Subs.rar the.singing.detective.ep3.lovely.days.rar the.singing.detective.ep4.clues.(ed2klinks.com).rar the.singing.detective.ep5.pitter.patter.rar the.singing.detective.ep6.who.done.it.dvdrip.xvid.fragment.rar Pero seguramente los más fiables son estos:
The.singing.detective.(1986.TV.series).subs.EN.srt.rar The.singing.detective.(1986.TV.series).subs.EN.srt.rar Ale, a disfrutar!
