Finished watching One Corpse Too Many from the complete Brother Cadfael series. Set in Shrewsbury in 1138, during the Middle Period, or Medieval Age. The screen size is small and made me think of 8-mm celluloid home movies from the 50s, but the production is quite excellent, except, perhaps, for the chain mail suits which look like they were knitted from recycled plastic trash bags using garter stitching, and the plastic vines creeping round the door to Brother Cadfael's hut, which showed up as fake in two medium shots. Other than those, it was quite thrilling to see actual faces and bodies telling the story. And speaking the language. My sister was right, it's Cad-FILE and not Cad-FELL as in Michael, which I erroneously thought.

Loved the sets, the rest of the costumes, the props, and the weapons.

Of course, I am biased, because I love Ellis Peters, gemstones, swords, and daggers. Like the Poirot and the Marple series, though, one cannot fully appreciate this series without having read the original books, which I had the pleasure of doing. Yes, you can have your cake and eat it too.