Gosford Park

Gosford Park is a unique blend of murder mystery and social critique of British society in the 1930s. As a group of wealthy British and American guests gather for a shooting party at a country estate, a murder occurs, leading to a series of revelations about the guests and their servants.

• Director Robert Altman's first British film.
• The script was written without a detailed plot outline.
• Rehearsals lasted two weeks before filming.
• More than 25 speaking roles were in the film.
• The film was shot in a 19th-century manor house.

• There's been a murder!
• I'm the perfect servant; I have no life.
• I don't know why we bother with corsets. Men don't wear 'em.
• So few people can flip the bird with such eloquence.
• Why anyone thinks you can make a film of life, I can't imagine.