FOYLE'S WAR: WHITE FEATHER

Movie / Show Details

Amazon.com

This second episode in the superb Foyle’s War series finds Detective Superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) settled into his unwanted fate solving “provincial murders” in the English countryside (while colleagues fight Hitler overseas via plum intelligence jobs). “The White Feather” begins with the arrest of a dim hotel maid for inexplicably treasonous sabotage, but quickly escalates with the murder of the young woman’s pro-Nazi employer. Slithering around the action is an outspoken anti-Semite (Charles Dance) with a stolen, classified document and Foyle’s troubled assistant, Sergeant Milner (Anthony Howell).
With this sophomore effort, Foyle’s War gracefully falls into certain patterns of storytelling, relationships, dialogue, etc., but by no means does that signal complacency. Series creator-writer Anthony Horowitz, like Foyle (but unlike Foyle’s superiors), knows these little mysteries may only be shards of Britain’s wartime crisis–but what is the worth of justice if it doesn’t prevail at home? –Tom Keogh

Product Description

Michael Kitchen stars as Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle in this original PBS Masterpiece Theatre mystery series. Set in the beautiful southern English countryside amid the disorder and danger of World War II.

From the Back Cover

Michael Kitchen stars as Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle in this original PBS Masterpiece Theatre series. Set in the beautiful southern English countryside amid the disorder and danger of World War II, Foyle’s War takes place far from the glory of the front. His is an ordinary struggle-against everyday evil-in extraordinarily dangerous times. The arrest of a young girl on a sabotage charge brings Foyle in to contact with a group of English Nazi sympathizers. Shots are fired at the group’s charismatic leader, but it is the hotel owner who dies. Foyle investigates the murder and uncovers a plot to smuggle a vitally important letter to the enemy. DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE production notes, cast filmographies and scene index.