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Nov 16, 1986 · The Singing Detective. Episode 1 of 6 Dennis Potter's classic drama serial with music. Pulp thriller writer Philip Marlow is in hospital with the skin complaint psoriasis, tormented by his past ...
The Singing Detective tells the story of crime novelist, Dan Dark, who, languishing in his hospital bed, occupies his time by mapping out a screenplay in his head about a cynical private investigator who doubles as a singer in a dance band. His lead character is slowly drawn into a web of intrigue during the murder investigation of a prostitute in 1950s Los Angeles. Heavily medicated, the border between reality and fiction starts to blur in Dark's mind. The plot is woven together with his ...
Nov 7, 2003 · "The Singing Detective" is a movie about a man who has been failed by science and drugs and turns in desperation to his mind, seeking temporary insanity as a release. His sharp intelligence is an asset. He knows the 1950s songs are trash, and that's the point; you don't throw songs you love onto the bonfire.
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Sep 28, 2023 · The Singing Detective made him a household name. Gambon won a Bafta for his role as the mystery writer confined to bed with a crippling skin and joint disease, who dreams of a fantasy world in ...
Nov 29, 2022 · As the levels bleed into one another, hospital patients crop up in young Philip’s Forest world, and on stage playing instruments in the Singing Detective’s ’40s band; pretty Nurse Mills (Joana Whalley) becomes a singer in Skinscapes as she greases around Marlow’s private parts on the ward; and Philip’s flight from his mother, through a maze of tube train tunnels, leads him to run into the hospital of Marlow’s present.
