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Format: Import, Full Screen, NTSC
Language: English
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Studio: Acorn Media
DVD Release Date: Aug 15 2006

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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For devotees left hungry for more at the conclusion of The Duchess of Duke Street, Gemma Jones re-creates her signature role as the indomitable Louisa Trotter, the former scullery maid who left her mark on turn-of-the-century England as "the finest cook in London" and the reigning mistress of Hotel Bentinck, in the second set of this series. As her own mother remarks, Louisa "has done very well. She's moved up in the world." The Bentinck is no Fawlty Towers. Louisa, based on the real-life Rosa Lewis, the proprietor of the fashionable Cavendish Hotel, presides over her domain with a stiff-backed iron rule. She is, as one of her staff remarks, "a tough customer ... a woman with spirit." Throughout these 16 episodes, packaged in six volumes, both she and her employees will be severely tested. Louisa's troublemaking brother inspires mutiny among the devoted staff, and Louisa is besieged by mysterious love letters. Darkening the horizon is the deepening shadow of World War I. This long-sought sequel to one of Masterpiece Theatre's finest hours boasts the same impeccable production values and peerless ensemble acting. Make your reservation. --Donald Liebenson

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ccA biography and Rosa Lewis and cast filmographies

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5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent..., April 24 2003

By	Dr Cathy Goodwin (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Duchess of Duke S.II (VHS Tape)

If anything, this second series is even better than the first. You have to own the whole series to get the full effect: each time I watch, I notice something different.

Series II brings home the horrors of the World War and the often tragic, often humorous byproducts of the class system. While the lower classes were used and abused, the upper classes too faced restrictions...

The closing scene is near-perfect...

The only downside to the series is that it's unmatched. Upstairs Downstairs (at least the first season) doesn't move as quickly and the characters seem cardboard in comparison, at least to me. Only Brideshead Revisited comes close and that's a far gloomier story.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Light and Frothy, Sep 22 2002

By	John D. Cofield - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Duchess of Duke S.II (VHS Tape)

The second series of Duchess of Duke Street carries the story through World War I and into the 1920s. It has less weight than the first series because Louisa is already established and successful so you don't see how hard she had to struggle. The war episodes are pretty good, especially in demonstrating the very noisy and often offensive super patriotism in which Louisa indulged. The episode involving spies in the Bentinck is probably my favorite for its atmosphere of intrigue. The episodes set in the 1920s are less satisfying, partly because Louisa is so quintessentially Edwardian that she seems out of place among the flappers, also because Lalla Ward, who plays Louisa's daughter, is extremely silly and chinless.But this series, like the first one, is fun ( as long as you don't expect too much )

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