Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303943275 Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6303943276 Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: February 27, 1996 Running Time: 200 minutes Sales Rank: 9749 Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: February 04, 1996
Amazon.com: The final installment of the House of Cards trilogy strikes a more somber note than its predecessors. Francis Urquhart--prime minister and murderer--has almost overtaken Margaret Thatcher to become Britain's longest serving postwar leader, but the public is tiring of him and there are rumblings of dissent in the Conservative Party. When the prime minister's bullying goes too far, his foreign secretary, Tom Makepeace, resigns and prepares to challenge for the leadership.
Urquhart and his wife (who makes Lady Macbeth look benign) plot to secure both their place in history and their financial future. An opportunity presents itself in the shape of the Cyprus Agreement: a treaty between the Greek and Turkish inhabitants of that island. The Urquharts learn that there are massive oil deposits along a disputed sea boundary, and a Turkish businessman promises them a large 'consultancy fee' if the oil ends up on his side of the border. However, Urquhart has other ties to Cyprus, because it was there (as a young soldier in the '50s) that he killed two Greeks. If this is uncovered, Urquhart will be finished. Attacked from all sides, it looks like there's no escape, but as he watches the Thatcher Memorial taking shape on the lawn outside his office, Urquhart vows to triumph again. With the help of his wife, the shadowy Commander Cawdor, and an ambitious member of Parliament who had an affair with Tom Makepeace, he might yet find a way to succeed.
Once again, writer Andrew Davies has created a satire to relish, one that confirms all of our doubts about the motives of politicians. Ian Richardson's wonderful performance--filled with sly asides and winks to the camera--makes Francis Urquhart as fascinating as he is wicked, and we find ourselves rooting for this terrible man. The world would certainly be a duller place without him. --Simon Leake
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Rating: - Isla Blair's diamond necklace
This one must have been less riveting than the two earlier series, because I spent a lot of time trying to get a better look at the diamond necklace Isla Blair was wearing. Since she was wearing little else in several scenes, I should be able to sketch it.
I won't say that the series was more unbelievable than the other two, because F.U. was so unbelievably evil in those, but it lacked the clever world-of-its-own logic that made the others brilliant. The first and second series had the light attitude of an evil Jeeves (or a Saki short story). This one lost that and tried to be a regular drama. Far too heavy a sea for a toy sailboat.
If anyone wants help me with the necklace, however...was it a bezel setting, or a slide?
Rating: - Grand finale
In this, the third and final part of the series of The House of Cards, Ian Richardson as Prime Minister, Francis Urquhart, is almost bored as PM as he has achieved all that he set out to do, corrupting a large portion of the parliament and plunging the country into two distinct sides of "haves" and "have nots". Never before in Britain have there been streets filled with homeless and desperate people whom Francis percieves as being little more than animals. The limits to which this man will go are beginning to cause even his evil wife to question his sanity and the denouement is breathtaking in it's intensity...definitely a must see.
Rating: - Cubed, baby!
I can't tell if this is the third "House of Cards" or the ninth one!
Rating: - A Terrible Disappointment
Especially in comparison to the brilliance of the first two installments, this was a bitter disappointment. Rumor has it that those involved would only do the third installment if the evil king received his come-uppance, and he does here, in an unsatisfactory manner, unbefitting the evil he once wrought. It's hard to imagine that a grown man who fed rat poison to an inconvenient party functionary, threw a lover off the top of the House of Commons, and car bombed up another in front of her husband, would be tortured for a second by having killed a boy in (Cyprus civil) wartime. The motive force in this one strains credulity. Watch and enjoy the first two, but skip this one- it really does not conclude the career of F.U. as the same imagination that brought the first two installments to life would have,
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