THE SHOOTING PARTY (1984)

ALAN BRIDGES

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Cast

JAMES MASON EDWARD FOX DOROTHY TUTIN SIR JOHN GIELGUD GORDON JACKSON CHERYL CAMPBELL ROBERT HARDY AHARON IPALE JORIS STUYCK ISABEL COLEGATE

Plot

They are elegant, arrogant and assured; they dine, shoot pheasants, gossip and flirt, and they observe the rigorous etiquette expected of them. However it's 1913 and they are the last of the Edwardians, their society is collapsing and their lives about to be devasted by the coming slaughter.