TotalTelly.co.uk
Devoted to Popular, Cult and Retro TV
Foyle's War - War Games / The Funk Hole [2002]
![Foyle's War - War Games / The Funk Hole [2002]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AXGAPRATL._SL160_.jpg)
RRP: £24.99
Our Price: £8.36 (subject to change)
'Cowards?' A Moot Point
Review date: 2006-09-21 Rating: 10 out of 10
I found all the episodes, had some merit, unlike 'Inspector Morse,' where I found certain episodes distasteful. War Games, being one of the best. The reviewer who thought, that 'War Games' and 'The Funk Hole,', could have been on one DVD, made a valid point, also. It is easy to criticize those who used the "Funk Hole,' when one has not been involved directly in war. It is easy to criticize also, the collaborators, when Britain was never occupied, by a ruthless enemy. In any case every soldier, friend or foe, was somebody's son. Note the businessman in another episode, who bribed a magistrate to exempt his son, influenced by the horrors of World War 1, inter alia.
If Britain, France, and others, had not been so vindictive towards The Central Powers, particularly Germany, after World War 1. Hitler might never have come to power.
I agree with Foyle, that murder of any human being, was just as deserving of investigation, although there was a war on. Thinking otherwise, was akin to 'Nazi Philosophy.'
Similar Products
- Foyle's War - Fifty Ships / Among the Few [2002]
- Foyle's War - French Drop / Enemy Fire
- Foyle's War - They Fought / War Of Nerves
- Foyle's War - A Lesson In Murder / Eagle Day [2002]
- Foyle's War - The German Woman / The White Feather [2002]
Reviews
Expensive But Worth It
Review date: 2004-05-08 Rating: 10 out of 10
I really don't see why these two episodes of Foyle's War need a DVD each, when it would clearly be possible to fit them on one disc, but be that as it may, this set is a delight. Both of my favourite episodes from the second four episode season of Foyle's War! In general I like Foyle's War for its atmospheric evocation of aspects of life on the home front during World War Two. Often these are aspects that we would perhaps rather forget: duplicity, paranoia, cowardice, greed; but it brings the period alive in a way that more ordinary dramas bent on portraying every 40's Briton as a hero do not. They are rather good murder mysteries too, I've never yet spotted the whole story before the end, they've always managed to keep a surprise in store.
In War Games we see a businessman trying to play on both sides of the war, a burglar attemoting to play it straight and spies everywhere, complicating everyone's games.
The Funk Hole deals with a rest home for cowards trying to avoid the privations the war, a gang stealing precious rationed food, and a mysterious allegation that Foyle himself is a coward guilty of sedition.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Julian Ovenden
Anthony Howell
Honeysuckle Weeks
Michael Kitchen
Jay Simpson
Creators:
Michael Kitchen (Primary Contributor)
Honeysuckle Weeks (Primary Contributor)
Anthony Horowitz (Writer)
Recording label: Acorn Media
Manufacturer: Acorn Media
EAN: 5036193093395
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 2
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2004-02-09
Number of discs: 2
Audience rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 200 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2003-02-02
Language: English (Original Language)