Inspector Morse: The Wolvercote Tongue (1987)
Season 2, Episode 1
10/10
Very Hitchcockian
23 August 2014
Warning: Spoilers
I am sure I have seen this episode before, but with the airings of Endeavor, my husband and I are watching all the Inspector Morse's again. I was amazed at how this episode was shot/directed. Very different from others in my view. The exchanges between Morse and Lewis are usually shot through a window or from some odd perspective (the cool couch scene for example) and there is all this other stuff going on in the background or foreground, maids, cleaners, barmaids...it is priceless. So of course I had to dig deeper into who the director was and my he seems like a gem. His idol was Hitchcock! I was not even surprised. I can't wait to tell my husband! It seems Alastair Reid directed one other episode and I look forward to seeing it again, although I do remember it better than this one and don't recall the uniqueness in it that this one has. A touch of Rear Window and North by Northwest.
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