A top notch ITV production
The writer Michael Chaplin delivers a crisp , subtle and brilliant screenplay , Mike Hodges directs with understated menace but also a lot of charm .
The period detail is spot on , the atmosphere gripping but stifling .
Michael Kitchen is fabulous , Sarah Miles , venomous , David Thewlis is excellent in a very early role and Lesley Sharp delivers as a bit of a strumpet .
The details of the case are very accurately portrayed and the ending is very unusual and quite ambiguous .
ITV drama has recently returned to this top level of quality with programmes like Anne and Stonehouse .
The period detail is spot on , the atmosphere gripping but stifling .
Michael Kitchen is fabulous , Sarah Miles , venomous , David Thewlis is excellent in a very early role and Lesley Sharp delivers as a bit of a strumpet .
The details of the case are very accurately portrayed and the ending is very unusual and quite ambiguous .
ITV drama has recently returned to this top level of quality with programmes like Anne and Stonehouse .