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The Shooting Party is a 1984 British drama film directed by Alan Bridges and based on the book of the same name by Isabel Colegate. The film is set in 1913, less than a year before the beginning of the First World War, and shows a vanishing way of life amongst English aristocrats, focusing on a shooting party gathered for pheasant shooting.
May 24, 1985 · The Shooting Party: Directed by Alan Bridges. With James Mason, Edward Fox, Dorothy Tutin, John Gielgud. While Europe stands on the brink of World War I in Autumn 1913, Sir Randolph Nettleby hosts a weekend of shooting on his estate for European aristocrats.
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- Drama, Romance
- Alan Bridges
- 1985-05-24
Watch the classic play "The Shooting Party" on YouTube, a drama of love and tragedy set in the Edwardian era of aristocracy and hunting.
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- 146.2K
- MrCrispian
"The Shooting Party" begins, with suitable irony, in the days just before World War I, when the British upper class was able to look out over a world that seemed secure, prosperous and unchanging. A group of guests arrive at a country home for a weekend of shooting, and by the end of the weekend a tragedy has occurred, and even the narrator can ...
In the fall of 1913, Sir Randolph Nettleby (James Mason) invites a group of friends to join him for a weekend of pheasant hunting at his estate.
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- James Mason
- Alan Bridges
- Drama
Oct 19, 2023 · Directed by Alan Bridges and based on Isabel Colegate’s novel of the same name, ‘The Shooting Party’ is a profound ensemble piece examining the waning of the aristocracy, in the last summer before The Great War.
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Autumn, 1913: on the eve of the Great War, a small party of lords and ladies gather at the Hertfordshire estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby. A code of propriety governs all: dress, breakfast, relations with the estate's peasants, courtship, shooting, adultery.