by Allan Fish
(USA 2015 280m) DVD1
Be careful what you step in
p Marc Smerling, Andrew Jarecki d Andrew Jarecki w Andrew Jarecki, Marc Sterling, Zachary Stuart-Pontier ph Marc Smerling ed Zachary Stuart-Pontier m West Dylan Thordson, John Kusiak
Captain Blackadder, arraigned for the murder of a delicious, plump-breasted pigeon called Speckled Jim, sends a message with a plea for help from one Bob Massingbird QC, the greatest lawyer in all England. The Captain recalled Massingbird’s most famous case, the Case of the Bloody Knife; “a man was found next to a murdered body. He had the knife in his hand. Thirteen witnesses had seen him stab the victim. And when the police arrived, he said ‘I’m glad I killed the bastard!’ Massingbird not only got him off, he got him knighted in the New Year’s Honours List and the relatives of the victim had to pay to wash the blood out of his jacket.” (more…)