Click here to visit our new site --> CafeDVD 2.0 Lord Peter Wimsey: The Nine Tailors (1974) Rating: Starring: Ian Carmichael Director: Raymond Menmuir Category: Drama, Suspense, Mystery Studio: Acorn Media Subtitles: Length: 210 mins     The original BBC adaptation of one of Dorothy L. Sayers most beloved novels. Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey, the erudite, aristocratic detective in what critics have called the best mystery series ever filmed. After a social visit to a grand estate -- during which thieves make off with another guest's valuable jewels -- young, war-bound Wimsey expects he will never have cause to return to the quiet village in the fen country of East Anglia. But twenty years later, he and Bunter are stranded there after an auto mishap, and Wimsey uses his skills as a change-ringer to thank the minister who takes them in. When a mutilated boy is found on the estate, Wimsey discovers a connection to the still-missing jewels. But the full picture eludes him until a natural disaster strikes and the nine church bells that signal death in a country town ring out. Part One: On his way to report for duty at the Western Front, young Major Wimsey attends a lavish wedding at a grand house in the village of Fenchurch-St. Paul. During the night, a crime occurs that rocks the household and changes some lives forever. Wimsey is gravely injured on the battlefield, but survives thanks to his friend Sergeant Bunter. Twenty years later, and quite by accident, Wimsey returns with Bunter to Fenchurch-St. Paul. Part Two: Stranded motorists Wimsey and Bunter are taken in by a minister whose plans for a record-setting change-ringing session have been ruined by an outbreak of Spanish influenza. An experienced ringer, Wimsey offers to step in for a man taken ill. The man's wife remembers Wimsey from that fateful night at the grand house on his first visit to the village. Part Three: The discovery of a mutilated body in the graveyard at the grand house brings Wimsey and Bunter back to the village for the inquest. Who was the victim? How did he die? And what is the connection between the corpse and the never-recovered jewels stolen twenty years before? Clues turn up in and around the church, including a note in the belfry, that, initially, makes no sense whatsoever. Part Four: Wimsey finds the stolen jewels and returns them to the surviving member of the family that paid for them so dearly. He also zeroes in on the probable identity of the corpse and the involvement of two brothers in the village. But the cause of death remains a mystery until a natural disaster strikes and Wimsey discovers the true power of the ancient church bells.