The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate was adapted into a film that is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – you find a multitude of notes on motion pictures from The NYT 1,000 and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel
The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate was adapted into a film that is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – you find a multitude of notes on motion pictures from The NYT 1,000 and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel 8 out of 10 This has reminded me of Anton Chekhov https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-shooting-party-by-anton-chekhov-we.html and his own Shooting Party, he famously said "One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep." There are different versions of this Indeed, the principle is respected in The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate: except there is not one gun, but maybe more than one hundred, ready to murder hundreds, probably thousands of pheasants, ducks and other poor animals – Sir Randolph Nettleby does offer a defense at some point, s...