The arrest of a young girl on a sabotage charge brings Foyle into contact with a group of English Nazi sympathizers.The arrest of a young girl on a sabotage charge brings Foyle into contact with a group of English Nazi sympathizers.The arrest of a young girl on a sabotage charge brings Foyle into contact with a group of English Nazi sympathizers.
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Did you know
- TriviaThe Friday Club has echoes of The Monday Club.
Formed as a right wing pressure group within the Conservative Party in 1961, the Conservatives severed connections with the Monday Club in 2001 due to its opinions on race and imperialism. Over its history, some Monday Club members have been suspected of supporting the National Front and of being nazis.
- GoofsThe uniformed Superintendent is seen wearing the ribbon of the Police Exemplary Service Medal. This medal was not instituted until 14 June 1951, eleven years after the events portrayed.
- Quotes
Rosemary Harwood: [Angrily] You're going through a lady's room? No gentleman would behave this way.
Det. Supt. Christopher Foyle: You know, you're right, but then again murder isn't a very gentlemanly business, Miss Harwood.
- SoundtracksTraumerei
[From Scenes of Childhood]
Written by Robert Schumann
Played at the first social gathering of the guests at the hotel. Rather appropriately, given their sympathies, it is a German tune.]
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The White Feather
Anthony Horowitz who created as well as writing this episode is Jewish. He has mentioned in the past that he received anti Semitic comments at school and the subject matter of this episode would be somewhat personal to him. As this episode was first broadcast in 2002 I think Horowitz captures the growing Islamophobia in Britain at the time due to the 2001 race riots in various British towns and the aftermath of 9/11.
We are still in the early days of world war 2. Some in the south east coast think that it is only a matter of time that the Nazis invade Britain, almost as if resistance is futile.
Guy Spencer (Charles Dance) is the leader of a fascist pro-Nazi movement known as the Friday Club, not far removed from Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts. Despite his protestation that he abhors violence, his thugs are happy to dish it out. There is a scene where they make fun of Jews.
Seargent Paul Milner invalided out of the army is settling into his new job with Foyle, his wife is uncomfortable with his disability but we see early on that he might be swayed by the likes of Spencer who he meets while waiting in the rain.
A planned secret meeting in a hotel goes wrong when the vile co-owner of the hotel and Nazi sympathiser Margaret Ellis is shot dead, the likely target should had been Spencer.
Foyle already investigating the arrest of a young girl for sabotaging telephone lines finds a link with the Ellis family, whose son is vehemently against his parents mixing with the fascists. The meeting contained senior personnel from the Foreign Office, the group had also been infiltrated by military intelligence and one of the hotel guests was a Jew with a grudge against Spencer.
The episode nicely sets out the pessimism prevalent in that region of England as well as the connivance of these fascists groups operating in Britain as if they were advancing Hitler's arguments for him but cloaked in the wrapper of wanting peace.
The episode is well presented especially with the period setting. The mystery though was a bit convoluted and far fetched.
We are still in the early days of world war 2. Some in the south east coast think that it is only a matter of time that the Nazis invade Britain, almost as if resistance is futile.
Guy Spencer (Charles Dance) is the leader of a fascist pro-Nazi movement known as the Friday Club, not far removed from Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts. Despite his protestation that he abhors violence, his thugs are happy to dish it out. There is a scene where they make fun of Jews.
Seargent Paul Milner invalided out of the army is settling into his new job with Foyle, his wife is uncomfortable with his disability but we see early on that he might be swayed by the likes of Spencer who he meets while waiting in the rain.
A planned secret meeting in a hotel goes wrong when the vile co-owner of the hotel and Nazi sympathiser Margaret Ellis is shot dead, the likely target should had been Spencer.
Foyle already investigating the arrest of a young girl for sabotaging telephone lines finds a link with the Ellis family, whose son is vehemently against his parents mixing with the fascists. The meeting contained senior personnel from the Foreign Office, the group had also been infiltrated by military intelligence and one of the hotel guests was a Jew with a grudge against Spencer.
The episode nicely sets out the pessimism prevalent in that region of England as well as the connivance of these fascists groups operating in Britain as if they were advancing Hitler's arguments for him but cloaked in the wrapper of wanting peace.
The episode is well presented especially with the period setting. The mystery though was a bit convoluted and far fetched.
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- Prismark10
- Oct 6, 2017
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