"Foyle's War" All Clear (2008)

User Rating:

8.4/10   

Director:

Tristram Powell

Writer:

Anthony Horowitz (written and created by)

TV Series:

"Foyle's War" (2002)

Original Air Date:

24 March 2008 (Season 6, Episode 3)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

It's early May 1945 and the formal announcement that the war is over is imminent. The station is being...

Plot Keywords:

Museum | Profiteer | Suicide Pill | Ve Day | Stabbing

Cast

Jay Benedict	...	Major John Kieffer
Joe Montana	...	Colonel Steve Lukacks
Caroline Lintott	...	Receptionist
Honeysuckle Weeks	...	Samantha Stewart
Mark Hadfield	...	Spiv
Ian Hughes	...	Ray Ingleton
Anthony Howell	...	Sgt. Paul Milner
John Ramm	...	Dr. Henry Ziegler
Polly Maberly	...	Edith Milner
Jay Simpson	...	Sgt Brooke
Michael Kitchen	...	Christopher Foyle
Martin Savage	...	Mark Griffiths
Jamie de Courcey	...	Pete Charman
Mark Bazeley	...	Martin Longmate
Frances Grey	...	Janice Hylton

Filming Locations:

Stoke Park House, Park Road, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Greenlit Productions

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Sam considers the possibility of 'going back to Leominster' (pronounced Lemster) at the end of the war. However in earlier films she tells us she is from Lyminster (pronounced as written).

Quotes:

Hilda Pierce: You like to inhabit dangerous territory, Mr Foyle.
DCS Christopher Foyle: Well, not by choice.
Hilda Pierce: Well, this time even you should tread carefully. I've stuck my neck out for you, and I have to say I felt a very cold breeze indeed. Operation Tiger, does that mean anything to you?
DCS Christopher Foyle: M-might.
Hilda Pierce: Slapton Sands in Devon.
DCS Christopher Foyle: What happened there?
Hilda Pierce: Nothing happened there. That's the official verdict, and that's the way it shall remain for many years to come.
DCS Christopher Foyle: Unofficially?
Hilda Pierce: You never spoke to me, I never gave you this, and it would be better if nobody ever found out you knew anything about it.
DCS Christopher Foyle: All right.
[...]

WW2 is over and everyone is having a hard time adjusting to peace...

A very interesting drama from the FOYLE'S WAR series called "All Clear," it's especially engrossing for me because I just watched a series of color films on the Military Channel about WWII with all of the footage photographed entirely in color dealing with the end of the war.

The writer has managed to dovetail all the details of the close of the war into his story about Foyle (MICHAEL KITCHEN) announcing retirement, his son (JULIAN OVENDEN) returning from war as a flier and meeting up again with Samantha (HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS). A few other sub-plots all deal with average British men and women all trying to make the difficult adjustment to peacetime after four or five years of separation, during which time all of them have changed.

The mystery involves the suspicious death of a man who commits suicide and the sudden murder of another man because of political ambitions gone awry. The clues are neatly tied together before the finish and altogether it's one of the best episodes in this highly satisfying British series.

All the performances are first rate. Well worth watching.