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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.
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- Drama, Romance
- Alan Bridges
- 1985-05-24
"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 see the storms of Europe gathering on the horizon ...
The Shooting Party. 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. His guests include the callous ...
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- James Mason
- Alan Bridges
- Drama
The Shooting Party (Russian: Драма на охоте, romanized: Drama na okhote; lit. English : Drama During a Hunt ) [ 2 ] is an 1884 novel by Anton Chekhov . It is his longest narrative work, [ 3 ] and only full-length novel. [ 4 ]
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- 1884
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. Lionel Stephens, who is courting Sir Randolph's daughter, gets into a shooting ...
Cast (in credits order) verified as complete. James Mason. ... Sir Randolph Nettleby. Edward Fox. ... Lord Gilbert Hartlip. Dorothy Tutin.
