These two movies have the same characters. They are based on a series
of novels by Phillip Pullman about a female detective/ financial
consultant in England during the Victorian Era. I ordered these two
movies from Netflix DVD as Sally is portrayed by Billie Piper, Rose in
Doctor Who. I was pleasantly surprised to find that one of her friends
is played by Matt Smith, the current Doctor Who. I actually watched
them in reverse order. In the Ruby in the Smoke, Sally is left an
orphan after her father dies in a ship accident. She later discovers he
was murdered over a ruby of great worth. She is in the target of a
murderess, who has murdered several people, and has surrounded herself
with many thugs, in an effort to get the ruby. The plot also includes
the heroin trade and addiction. Sally uses heroin in small amounts to
help her remember her past. The plot takes several twists, with a young
girl kidnapped. Sally and her friends, because of their persistence,
are finally able to prevail.
The second movie has a much more sinister and complicated plot. Sally
gets involved as someone she advised about investments, loses her money
as a company goes bankrupt, and then reemerges as another company. The
plot takes even more twists, as the sinister man turns out to have
purchased the rights to a super weapon which he is developing. This
weapon will quell all uprisings, at it uses a train and a Gatling gun,
to fire a tremendous amount of bullets. The evil man's men, burn down
the home where Sally and her cohorts are staying, killing her love and
father of her baby as she is now pregnant. However she gets even in the
end as she is able to destroy the weapon, but not until after she has
turned it on our villain.
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| Billie Piper as Sally Lockhart |
The stories were entertaining, but a bit hard to follow; mostly because of the thick cockney accents of the characters.
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