The Murder at Road Hill House (2011)

Very Cool!!!

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Awesome Movie

Blistering performances.

This detail movie about the true and absolutely sensational murder mystery that occurred in England in the 1860s gave birth to Sir Arthur Canon Dolye's "Sherlock Holmes". The life of Constance Kent was a was disgrace by murdering her half brother but was reborn after becoming a Christian and seeking forgiveness. Queen Victoria forgave her to a life in prision. After which she join her brother in Austrailia and led a life of nursing. She died at the age of 100. She was still in the newspapers although in the obituaries. Could God forgive this murderess ? I think so. She led a good life in Austrialia. I saw the Road House in Wilshire, its the same at pictured in the movie. Which leads me to believe that Kate Summerscale had a lot to do with this movie. I even prayed over the grave of Saville Kent after I talked to a few people in Rode, Wiltshire, England. I imagine that after the movie, there is alot of tourists looking at the house. Just like the movie "Bagdad Cafe", although there is nothing left of the small area now.

I'm surprised by the generally negative reviews for this production. Some reviewers seem to want the writers to re-write history to replicate an Agatha Christie story. The fact is, this story was based on reality, not on Christie's tropes and formulas. The fact is, sometimes crimes work out as this one did, with an unsatisfying ending. The detective doesn't call all the suspects to a meeting where he reveals his genius at deduction, or cause the suspect to reveal him/herself in dramatic fashion.I found this well acted and well written. Not great, but quite good, and well worth the watching. Maybe if Captain Hastings' grandfather had showed up for comic relief, more people would have liked it. Personally, I found the straight drama well done and satisfying.

A typical so-called English mystery that usually written by British female mystery writers and, they are just too many to be counted. Most of these no-big-deal "mysteries" would have been adapted into TV movies, then PBS would re-broadcast on American PBS channels. Funny thing is that I've never considered most these "mysteries" as real mysteries but no-big-deal bloated big deal, yet bore-to-death if truth could be really told. This movie is no exception and again, I really don't know such boring case would worth making into a movie, even it's based on a true story, so what? What we saw is a detective used his instinct and experience in murder investigations to try so hard to break a so obvious family murder case, the only thing he lacked material evidence and material witness. This kind of storyline is the typical mystery formula so adoringly adopted by the British female mystery writers and almost 99% of the British mysteries are just like this one. It's so flat that just like the heartland of America, so flat and endless in 4 directions.

The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher is based on Kate Summerscale's book of the same name. This book is not a novel: rather it is a factual (and, if truth be told, rather dry) recounting of the facts of the case and everything relating to it (including the individuals involved) based on the original documentary evidence.The film concentrates on the case and doesn't tell us very much about the backgrounds of Mr Whicher, the Kent family, detection within the English police force and how it was viewed by the public, and so on. As such it, too, is a little dry, although the drama inherent in the story is augmented by performance drama.The film may disappoint because the conclusion is somewhat perfunctory and the "what happened afterwards", delivered at length on the course of a couple of lengthy chapters in the book, is here given over the space of three or four title cards.