Campion

A good film adaptation of Margery Allingham's slightly deliberate and artificial, but quite cute, entertaining and stylish detective stories about a gentleman detective. The main character is a certain Albert Campion, looks like an eccentric bespectacled man and a babbler, behaves frivolously and too foolishly even by English standards, but his entertainment is not toys at all, but serious, risky business, sometimes of a national or even international scale. He is assisted by a colorful servant and a jack-of-all-trades, an indispensable master of extracting information from the underprivileged strata of society, with a juicy Cockney accent and the plasticity and intonations of the classic London urkagan Magersfontein Lugg, and police Inspector Stanislaus Oates - at times an extremely useful, but much less vivid character.

The plots are interesting, there is intrigue, normal dialogues with humor and irony, a couple of "mister and squire" are well written, other characters are quite lively, staged and filmed acceptably, a lot of interesting details, decent props, play well. Despite the age of the original source, and the series itself, it is quite possible to watch with pleasure.

Language. They speak very well, textbook, posh, Cockney, local accents - everything is as it should be, while being quite legible. Albert sometimes expresses himself very ornately, subtitles would not hurt.

I only watched the first two-part story. From the very beginning, it is clear that this is an ironic detective story. When I saw the gentleman detective with the valet, I immediately hoped for the likeness of Woodhouse's Jeeves and Wooster. But it turned out to be consumer goods like Dontsova. It is clear why the series has been lost for centuries. A walk-through item for daytime display for housewives. It's kind of hard, the irony is only implied. I don't want to look any further.