Originally posted in November 2010, this was the final episode of the second season of the show (with the exception of the two Christmas specials that year) and was the 50th episode. This re-edited version has the usual changes I've applied to this re-posts, which tighten up the pacing and editing, and runs 1m 39s shorter than the original. This is the second of my re-posts to tie into Murder on the Orient Express, another mystery that has Derek Jacobi in it, although I re-edited it for another film I saw for Projector with Jacobi in that I will hopefully get to soon. I think this is an underrated episode, and features one of the most preposterous twists ever featured on the show, so hopefully this will reveal this episode to more viewers.

The under-title of this movie was "Some secrets should stay hidden." How very ironic of a movie that was never released.

" Let's make a movie about riddles .... and let's cast the whole crew from Lock , Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ..."

19:45 I think the implication was supposed to be that the mud was jamming his gun. But the mud looked neither thick enough nor could it have gone into the mechanisms that makes the gun fire properly based on how the gun was positioned.

If I keep watching this review, I will eventually be able to understand what's happening in the movie.

I actually own a book that was published in 1888, which is later than anything Dickens ever wrote, and the pages are so yellowed, brittle and fragile I can't even turn them without them fragmenting. Paper from that era is unbelievably delicate due to the acid that was used in making it. The pages Vinnie Jones is carrying around with him should have disintegrated from the careless way he was treating them.

After that pizza delivery scene I got a Pizza Hut ad lol

The tagline for this film says some secrets should stay hidden. I think it was a warning..

The return of another BMB Classic!

This episode is amazing. I've heard of obscure films but one this obscure with this many well known actors is something special!

Happy 50th, Film Brain!

My grandparents have the newspaper DVD of this in a binder, I never knew that it was first released in the Daily Mail

Obviously Charles Dickens is a vampire. ;-) (And before anyone says anything, in actual folklore and even in Dracula vampires can go out during the daytime. Vampires dying in sunlight is a Hollywood myth, not actual folklore.)

Vanessa Redgrave, Derek Jacobi, Vera Day, and... Vinnie Jones. One of these things is not like the others, one of these things can't act to save his life.

This review is great. Doesn't seem to explain how Dickens became immortal, though I suspect the film didn't do a great job of that.

Vinnie jones making a movie career for himself really tickles me, he's a legend, can't act but still no one's gonna say that to his face are they!

I'm still enjoying Yuri uploading these things, gives me a chance to catch up on your work. Hope you're having a wonderful day God bless!

Yessss, I'm so glad to see this episode again! This is one of my favourite Film Brain episodes!

It must be the only film on the IMDb to have it's distributor listed as The Mail On Sunday.

I swear, this film's plotting is so convoluted, I can barely follow what the hell is even going on at any given moment, even with you explaining it as best as you can. What a damned mess, even for a clearly very cheap-looking film. And Redgrave and Cox slumming it in this ? Ungh. Ladies, you can do better. Jacobi doesn't surprise me as much. He and Ben Kingsley appear in bloody everything. :-D

I've rewatched this review many times and I will take the plot twist to my grave as well

20:32-20:35 This has to be made into a GIF.

Vinnie Jones being in this movie means one thing: it's gonna be EMOTIONAL!!!

Great as always!

I spied at least 3 lock stock actors in the riddle...they should have utilised Cockney rhyming slang with the title "The Jimmy Riddle" it's certainly a shower of piss 🤣

Always one of my favorites!

Those guys were trying to make world's dumbest criminals weren't they?

Legend Of The Bog. Did Vinnie Jones have a dodgy Vindaloo and they made a film about it?

That last part reminded me of "Dear sister"

Legend Of The Bog. Appropriate name for a giant turd.

Is there a review of Fatal Deviation somewhere?

15:42 Full song here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ad2jesSDx8DNaZc.html Not sure on the artist or the exact title but it was featured in Secret Diary of a Call Girl

Flim Brian!

Did phelous ever actually review that bog bodies film? I feel the need to either subject myself to it, or watch someone else suffer in my place

So disappointed this was not a Batman villain origin story!

"Newspaper"

What’s the song at the end? Kinda sounds like low-budget Weezer, lol.

I was expecting him to do a riddler skit at the beginning and at 3:05 (jumpcuts to jumanji). Sorry I may have watched too many Phelous and NC reviews.

The end is almost like a goodbye. But we know film brain didn’t die so I find this confusing knowing the future he does projector now. So I don’t get it

Damn... Still no Vinnie Jones from Phelous...

Because he is The master XDDDD

I get that the funeral music is not a copyrighted tune, but why did they use football commentary?

Call yourself British?! IT'S PRONOUNCED 'HANGED'!

For your next review, Check out Bucky Larson

Hey its mary shelley

The sound mixing for the montage at the end is terrible.

I don’t mind your projector series but is bad movie beat down dead? There have only been 3-5 episodes in the last 2 years. I’m just disappointed because I miss your analysis.

Omen 4 is great.

Why does the British press hate humanity

Review snatch and midnight meat train.

Or he could be a descendant of Dickens.