Dandelion Dead

Apart from that it ok. Just forget it, can't decide if it is farse or drama and ends being just farsical.

I really enjoyed the film, I felt that each character was well portrayed and (for want of a better word) fairly portrayed. I often find that in this kind of film it is all to easy to lay blame at a single character, in this case the Major.

Wish Kitchen had not had the mustache. Wish Sarah Miles wasn't in it.

I notice that the two comments with an American address have found difficulty appreciating the "Englishness" of the portrayals and general directorial approach. One complains of the missed opportunity to delve into the psychological thriller possibilities of the plot.

This production brought to bear some of the finest English talent of its day, and captures a bygone time and place in a way I would say only the English could. Michael Kitchen is gentle and always personally appealing, and he has realized a heart and soul here--a good man driven to do truly bad things out of a desperation he dared not face and a wife no sane man could bear.

This is a harrowing, totally gripping British TV mini-series in which Michael Kitchen gives what is probably the finest performance of his career. It is based on a true story, of a respectable solicitor and magistrate's clerk, a pillar of his community and of his Masonic lodge, Major Herbert Armstrong, who poisoned his intolerable and domineering wife with arsenic which he had originally bought to poison the dandelions on his lawn.

I watched this film knowing nothing about the case, or Major Armstrong before, and found it engaging, and very well acted - but still a bit cold and distant.The story follows Major Armstrong, a lawyer with a shrewish wife who plots to murder her and a business rival with arsenic.

This story,if it is really based on truth,suggests one of the greatest miscarriages of justice imaginable.But,not,you might think,for the same reasons most people would imagine.