MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD (1993)

TIMOTHY FORDER

Drama Literary Classics 10th - 19th Centuries Murder Mystery

Cast

ROBERT POWELL GEMMA CRAVEN RONALD FRASER FREDDIE JONES NANETTE NEWMAN CHARLES DICKENS DANIEL DAVIES

Plot

A brave attempt to finish, on film, Dicken's last and incomplete novel. Edwin Drood is brutally murdered and the most obvious culprit is the rival for his fiancee's hand. As the story unfolds the mystery is solved in a revealing tale of sexual repression in a straight-laced society.