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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.
Watch the classic play "The Shooting Party" on YouTube, a drama of love and tragedy set in the Edwardian era of aristocracy and hunting.
"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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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.
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.
