类型: / 地区:英国 / 年份:1998
状态:已完结
地区:英国
语言:英语
年份:1998
导演:罗伯特·奈斯
主演:约翰·肖 詹姆斯·格劳特 克莱尔·霍尔曼 丽莎·艾科恩 朱蒂·罗 Louisa Lawrenson
更新:2024-09-24
简介:Morse is taken seriously ill at a museum receptionMorse is taken seriously ill at a museum reception and is hospitalized. In the hospital, Supt. Strange, visits Morse to push him to take early retirement, while Dr. Millicent 'Millie' Van Buren gives him her book on a 140 year-old court case known as the Oxford Canal Murders. The case involved the murder and rape of a young woman, Mrs Joanna Franks, traveling by canal boat from Coventry to London. The case resulted in three boatmen being sentenced to death and two of them hanged. Morse starts to read Millie's book and dreams about it. He soon has a number of problems with the case. Why weren't the three men also charged with theft Why did Mrs Franks take a boat instead of a train that was much faster and comfortable and only slightly more expensive Why didn't she abandon the boat after she complained about lewd behavior of the crew at the shipping office in Banbury Why did she then drink and 'socialise' with the crew What happened to her 'carpet bag' with which she arrived on the boat but which was not mentioned in the court case, nor was it stored in the archives with her, almost empty, trunk The trunk was marked with initials of her first husband who had died. How did it happen that her shoes were found on the boat but nobody saw her return to the boat from the forest PC Adrian Kershaw does some brilliant leg work for Morse. He studied history and has invaluable background knowledge. For instance, he mentions that the boatmen had bad reputation because they worked on Sundays and did not attend church. Later a chapel was built for them in Oxford. The dead woman's clothes and the shoes found on the boat are submitted to modern forensic investigation. The result is that the shoes did not belong to the dead woman found in the water because she was much taller.The shoes were never used in the forest. Only Mrs Franks' husband, Charles Franks, was called to identify the body of the dead woman. He claimed that, while her face was darkened and disfigured, he found a birth mark behind her ear. The prosecutor welcomed that information that only a husband or a lover would know. The accused were not shown the body. The defense attorney merely claimed that the guilt of the three men was not proved. All three accused claimed to the end that they were innocent. One of them was not executed because he embraced Christianity in prison. Morse instructs Kershaw to investigate if Charles Franks benefited from his wife's death and, indeed, he pocketed 300 pounds insurance money. Case closed Charles Franks murdered a tall women and dropped her in the canal after meeting Joanna in the forest. If Joanna Franks jumped off the boat at the same time as the dead body hit the water, she swam to the bank and joined her husband. The couple changed their names, in the case of 'Charles Franks' a second time after he 'died' as Joanna's first husband. The fourth boatman, a youngster who was not charged, was probably paid by Joanna to give false testimony. Morse travels to Ireland and has a grave of Joanna's first husband exhumed. The coffin contains bags of sand and some stones.力盾影院本网站电影生活的伴侣,是一个为用户分享全集电视剧,在线免费播放又名给予飘零影院是一个更新更全更受欢迎的影视网站。。为影视迷们提供最全面的电影。电影,韩国电视剧、香港TVB电视剧经典动漫推荐,综艺娱乐节目力盾影院,最新播放电影信息,即将上映的电影预告影片我们会为大家收集更为全面佳作。。《摩斯探长第十一季》网友影评: Davin;香港脱离大陆文化也就是从那个时候开始Mavis;“艾玛,我再也找不到第二个像你一样美丽的希女郎了”“为了这句话我等了三十年”“这就是为什么他们叫我悬疑大师啊”公上咨潞;格里高利派克完全不具有麦克斯阿瑟的气质和韵味,象一个木偶走了两个小时过场详情