Product: Inspector Morse [VHS] (1988)
Rating: 5.0
This is an excellent film that keeps you guessing all the way to the end
Inspector Morse, as the forensic doctor exclaims, hits a record. There are six deaths in the film, all people who attended a religious service on what was allegedly St. Augustine's conversion date. Morse, for those who do not know, is the two pint of beer thinker who loves classical music and opera, who drives a beautiful red car, who is generally gruff, but very able to solve crimes in his city Oxford.Two witnesses identify the first dead man - killed with an overdose of a drug and then stabbed - as the husband of a woman who early on in the film we see making out with the church organist. Morse suspects that the murderer is the priest of the church, who seems to be a pedophile. He finds out that unsubstantiated charges of being a pedophile were brought against the priest in the past. He tells the priest that he wants to talk to him. The priest has a brother who is a drunk. He has spent a lot of money. He seems to be blackmailed. The priest goes back into the church after being confronted by Morse to change his clothes, but jumps off the church roof, committing suicide. This would appear to be an admission of the murder, if the suicide was not followed by four more deaths.Morse spends a lot of time thinking about the case and trying to date an attractive parishioner. She seems to be involved in the murder. We, but not Morse, see her lying in bed with an unidentified man.The organist who was flirting with the wife of the first dead man is killed next, then his son, and the wife of the first dead man. The final death is the muderer.This is a film that keeps its secret until the very end. Who committed the murders? Why? How will Morse deal with the woman he is trying to date? Is she involved? It is doubtful that anyone can guess the ending.