The Shooting Party
1985 · TMDB 6.6
Directed by Alan Bridges
1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby for a weekend shoot. As the terminal decrepitude of a dying class is reflected in the social interactions and hypocrisy of its members, only world weary Sir Randolph seems to realise that the sun is setting.
Why it matters
Alan Bridges adapts Isabel Colegate's novel about a 1913 shooting weekend on an English estate, where the guests' certainty about their world is undercut by the sound of a distant war and a poacher's quiet defiance. James Mason gives one of his last performances as the old man wh...
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Released
- 1985-02-01
- Studio
- Castle Hill Productions
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 6.6
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Key contributors
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Alan Bridges
Director
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Julian Bond
Writer
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James Mason
Sir Randolph Nettleby
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Edward Fox
Lord Gilbert Hartlip
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Dorothy Tutin
Lady Minnie Nettleby
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John Gielgud
Cornelius Cardew
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Gordon Jackson
Tom Harker
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Cheryl Campbell
Lady Aline Hartlip
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Robert Hardy
Bob, Lord Lilburn
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Aharon Ipalé
Sir Reuben Hergesheimer
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