The Sally Lockhart Mysteries - Shadow in the North

Starring: Billie Piper

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• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 783421417496
• Release Date: May 1993
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: PBS
• Director: John Alexander
• Starring: Billie Piper
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: multiple_formats
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Second of a series called Sally Lockhart Mysteries - only two episodes made.

Someone in the forest. Blood on the snow. He is still there, all in a glass coffin. Bells, bells…the Bellmann. There’s a shadow in the north. Now that Sally has lost a father and gained a family, she is ready for the next adventure. Sally is now an investment counselor. JJ Field and Jim Tailor give up their old professions and become detectives. Again, there are several overlapping spooky problems, including lost funds and murderous swordplay. We are allowed to speculate and kibitz. About halfway through the movie, most of the mysteries begin to make sense. Now all we have to do is hope there are not any last-minute twists. Closed captioning helps with some of the mumbling. Based on a novel by Bill Pullman (author of “The Golden Compass”), you can see the Pullman pattern in the story. Pullman always has strong-willed women. Adrian Hodges wrote the screenplay, the same person who wrote the screenplay in the first episode, and kept the essentials while making it more palatable as a film. Many people watched the BBC production because Sally (Veronica Lockhart), is well played by Billie Piper of “Dr. Who” fame. Yet all of the other actors, most pretty well known in their own right, helped make this an excellent presentation. Jim Taylor (Matt Smith) returns from the first episode and has a bigger part. Strange what you remember and forget, so I had to watch it again nearly two decades later.