Молодой Морс Nocturne (2012– ) watch online HD
- Original title:Nocturne
- Category:TV Episode / Crime / Drama / Mystery
- Released:2012–
- Director:Giuseppe Capotondi
- Actors:Jack Laskey,Shaun Evans,Susy Kane
- Writer:Colin Dexter,Russell Lewis
- Duration:1h 31min
- Video type:TV Episode
- Rating 8.6
- Votes 853
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There are several literary references: the signpost reading Midwich, as in "The Midwich Cuckoos" by John Wyndham, Karswell is the name of a character in M. R. James' story "Casting the Runes" (filmed as "Night of the Demon)" and at the College of Arms, Sir Hilary is said to be on holiday. This is Sir Hilary Bray who was abroad visiting Ernst Stavro Blofeld as told in Ian Fleming's "On Her Majesty's Secret Service".
The plot contains various elements from different episodes of "Inspector Morse" (1987). A character has an interest in heraldry ("Who Killed Harry Field?"), a descendant of a family line is cheated out of his inheritance ("Sins of the Fathers"), a pupil disappears from a prestigious girl's school ("Last Seen Wearing"), a connection with a Victorian crime ("The Wench is Dead") and a knife from a museum case is used as a murder weapon ("The Daughters of Cain").
In order to focus Bunty's mind, Morse asks her "Beware the Jabberwock. What comes next?" The answer, from Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky, is "Beware the Jabberwock, my son!/The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!/Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun/The frumious Bandersnatch!"
In the closing credits, after the cast of characters is listed, there are red letters in some of the crew's names. These letters spell out "Matthiola longipetala," the Latin name of the flower known as (evening) stock, which is one of the clues in the coat of arms Weiss was working on before he was murdered. The clues in the heraldry lead to the name of the murderer.
At the beginning Morse walks by a large signboard featuring character Diana Day, a character from "Trove". She portrayed a beauty queen.
When Miss Bronwen Symes says "Here comes a candle to light you to bed" she is quoting a line from the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons" which ends with "Here comes a candle to light you to bed/And here is a chopper to chop off your head."
The road marker not only mentions Midwich but also Crampton Hodnet, the title of a book by Barbara Pym which takes place in North Oxford.
Bearwood College which doubled as Blyth Mount also appeared in a John Thaw One Off Drama "Into the Blue" 1997, in that Thaw's character visits a teacher at the school played by Nick Dunning.
Simon Kunz, who plays the veteran police detective Church, is costumed and made up to bear a striking resemblance to Laurence Olivier in "Bunny Lake Is Missing", a film released in Britain in 1966, the year in which this takes place. "Bunny Lake Is Missing" was the only time in his long career in which Olivier played a police inspector.
Bright says "we're not going to argue like Burke and Hare over the body of a murdered child." Burke and Hare were 19th century Scottish murderers who killed people in order to sell the corpses to the anatomists at the medical school in Edinburgh. (Though they are commonly described as body-snatchers they never actually robbed a grave.)
The murder of the elderly genealogist at the beginning takes place in the entomology collection at the Natural History Museum in Oxford. It is recognizable because the room has been re-purposed from its original layout as a great lecture hall with massive arches. The floor was raised to make room below as can be seen by the claustrophobic proximity of the peak of the arches to the floor. This room has tremendous historical significance. In 1860 it was the site of the great debate attended by Thomas Henry Huxley, Bishop Wilberforce, Richard Owen and even Captain Fitzroy of HMS Beagle. This took place immediately following the publication of the Origin of Species and the opening of the museum itself in 1859.
When ghost hunter Stephen Fitzowen is giving Morse and Thursday background on the Blaise-Hamilton murders of 1866, he names Superintendent Cuff as one of the investigators into the mass murder. Cuff was the lead detective in the disappearance of The Moonstone in Wilkie Collins' Victorian novel of the same name.
As Morse departs the school after questioning the girls, there's a discussion of the impending rain. Bunty quotes Tweedledee from ch 4 of "Through the Looking glass" , saying "It may - if it chooses, we've no objection. Contrariwise."
In addition to the road-sign for "Midwich", there is another John Wyndham reference when one of the schoolgirls arrives late in the common room and one of the others says, "Ah, the Kraken wakes!" - "The Kraken Wakes" was the title of one of Wyndham's best-selling science-fiction novels of the 1950s.
The original name of the old house which is now the site of Blythe Mount School is "Shrive Hill House". This name may remind audiences of "Hill House", the haunted mansion in Shirley Jackson's novel, "The Haunting Of Hill House", filmed twice (in 1963 and 1996) as "The Haunting".
The forenames of the Gardiners, the elderly American couple, are "Nahum" and "Tabitha" - names familiar in the horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.
The "Save Me" message Morse finds in his pocket may be inspired by the message "Help Me", which so mysteriously appears on the stomach of the possessed child Regan in "The Exorcist".
In pitch darkness, the ghost-hunter Fitzowen tries to photograph what he believes to be a ghost (but is actually a real person), using flashbulbs. The only illumination in the scene is the repeated momentary flashing of these bulbs as they pop, illuminating Fitzown's bulky presence. The scene is filmed in a way clearly reminiscent of the climax of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film, "Rear Window", though there the bulbs are used for a very different reason.
At the end, Morse finds a picture of Charlotte among Black's belongings that does not have the face scratched out. It appears that Charlotte may have had Downs Syndrome.
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| Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jack Laskey | - | DS Peter Jakes | |
| Shaun Evans | - | DC Endeavour Morse | |
| Susy Kane | - | Miss Victoria Danby | |
| Imogen Gurney | - | Edwina Parrish | |
| Nell Tiger Free | - | Bunty Glossop | |
| Anya Taylor-Joy | - | Philippa Collins-Davidson | |
| Eve Perry | - | Antonia Lockwood | |
| Maya Gerber | - | Stephanie Hackett | |
| Lucy Boynton | - | Petra Briers | |
| Emily Renée | - | Shelly Thengardi (as Emily Warren) | |
| Michael Shannon | - | Nahum Gardiner (as Michael J. Shannon) | |
| Lynn Farleigh | - | Tabby Gardiner | |
| Daniel Ings | - | Terence Black | |
| Sara Vickers | - | Joan Thursday | |
| Roger Allam | - | DI Fred Thursday |
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