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Mr.Pye.Part.1.1986.TV.DVDRip.XviD-FLAiR

INFO

Release

Title  [ Mr Pye Part 1: Preparing the Way

Release  [ 2011-08-21        Source  [ Retail DVD
Retail  [ 2011-08-08        iMDB  [ 6.9/10 (37)
Runtime  [ 51 mins           Size  [ 350MB / 25x15MB
Genre  [ Comedy/Drama/Fantasy/Mystery

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259441/

Encoding

Audio  [ 85kb/s VBR Mono -V4
Video  [ 576 x 432 @ 875kb/s 25fps

PLOT

A great wind of change is blowing over the Isle of
Sark, and it goes by the name of Mr. Pye. Mr. Pye is a
man on a mission, or as he might describe it, an
evangelical adventure. He has come to encourage the
residents to put aside their differences and embrace his
concept of The Great Pal. This proves harder than he
expected as Sark has bred a good many long-standing
disagreements and rubbed-the-wrong-way rivalries.
There's his landlady, the formidable Miss Dredger, and
her ongoing feud with the equally formidable Miss
George; Thorpe, a frustrated artist in more ways than
one, especially by his love for the free-loving Tanty;
and then there s Mr. Pye himself, a man about to
discover how demanding the Great Pal can be, as first he
pays the price for being too good... and then for being
too evil.

Part 1:

Mr. Pye arrives and gradually charms his landlady into
becoming an ally. Together they plan a beach barbecue
that is also to involve the cantankerous Miss George -
in a totally unexpected way.

RIP NOTES

When we released the VHSRip of Mr Pye a month ago, we
boldly stated that "Mr. Pye has yet to be released on
any format". That was as true then as it had been for 25
years, but what we weren't aware of was that a DVD release
was right around the corner. While this transfer could
have benefited from some restoration, it is still no doubt
better than the previous VHS source.

Our original notes:

Mervyn Peake is probably better known for his many
illustrations, as well as his Gormenghast trilogy, than
he is for writing Mr. Pye. Nevertheless it is a
fascinating story, and a very interesting Christian
allegory. Published in 1953, he personally adapted it
for radio only four years later, but it would be another
three decades, and almost 20 years after his tragic
early death in a mental institution, until it was
adapted for TV.

Mr. Pye is notable for a number of reasons, not least
of which actually being shot in the magical Channel
Island of Sark, where the story takes place. Sark is not
a common place to film, to say the least, and is
commonly referred to as a place where time has stood
still. To this day, motorized vehicles are not allowed
on the island at all (with the exception of tractors),
which, needless to say, alone lead to a number of
interesting challenges.

Tribulations aside, the result is a series that works
just as well today as it did when it first aired 25
years ago. It's a timeless story from a timeless place,
and Derek Jacobi's interpretation of the troubled former
banker is worthy of praise.

WHO WE ARE

Since 2003, FLAiR has been dedicated to preserving
the neglected titles of an entertainment era long gone.
A time of classic kids flicks, painstaking hand-drawn
animation and countless cheesy low-budget horrors. A
time when pop had a King, and rock had a Queen. A time
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We've made it our mission to dig these out, clean them
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