Beginning today, the Independent Film Channel will screen at the IFC Center in New York City the three films adapted from David Peace's Red Riding Quartet of crime novels. Originally aired as a mini-series on Channel 4 in the UK in March 2009, the films (1974, 1980, and 1983) will open nationwide on February 19th. (The fourth book in the quartet, 1977, was not adapted.)
About 1974 (from the network): It's Yorkshire in 1974, and fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions.
When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions in the last decade.
But after a mutilated body is found on a construction site owned by a local property magnate, Eddie and Barry are drawn into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.
About 1980 (from the network): It's 1980 and the 'Ripper' has tyrannised Yorkshire for six long years. Senior Manchester detective Peter Hunter is brought in by the Home Office to conduct a secret review of the Ripper investigation to date.
Hunter's been involved with West Yorkshire before; he failed to complete an investigation into a shooting involving Yorkshire coppers back in 1974.
But this time Hunter's determined not to leave without getting results.
About 1983 (from the network): Nine years on, another Morley child has gone missing on her way home from school.
Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin.
Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, unwittingly providing a catalyst for Jobson to start to right some wrongs.
Vintage has issued new trade paperback editions of the books; click on the book covers for more information:
Trailers for each of the films are available, and can be seen below:
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