Combining uncompromising historical accuracy with compelling mysteries, this acclaimed PBS series continues with three feature-length episodes. Michael Kitchen (Out of Africa) stars as DCS Christopher Foyle, investigating wartime crimes in an English coastal town. With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways.
Also starring Anthony Howell and Honeysuckle Weeks, and featuring Nicholas Day, Malcolm Sinclair, Nicholas Woodeson, Duncan Bell, Julian Ovenden, Mark Bazeley, Julian Wadham, and Phyllida Law.
Acorn Media has announced the August 5th release of Foyle's War - Set 5. The 3-disc set will cost $49.99 SRP for 3 stories, detailed below, and including extras such as a Making-Of Documentary, Cast Member Reflections, Notes on a Real-Life Foyle, and Cast Filmographies.
The episodes are presented in widescreen video, with English - Stereo audio and closed captioned for the hearing impaired. Running time is 300 minutes. Here are the details about these three mysteries, followed by the box art:
- PLAN OF ATTACK - With the Hastings police force suffering attrition and low morale, Foyle comes out of retirement to probe the mysterious death of a cartographer from the Air Ministry office.
- BROKEN SOULS - The murder of an ambitious young doctor at the local psychiatric clinic produces no shortage of suspects among the staff and patients, many of whom still experience the war's horrors.
- ALL CLEAR - With final victory expected any day, Hastings looks ahead to a radically different post-war life. But the end comes too soon for two men - one a murder victim, the other an apparent suicide.
  
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