House of Cards Trilogy - Special Edition (DVD Remastered) - DVD
Adapted for the screen by Andrew Davies (Pride and Prejudice, Bleak House), House of Cards is a spell-binding dissection of naked ambition, greed and rampant hypocrisy in the corridors of power. And even Machiavelli would baulk at Urquhart's methods. The series documents in thrilling detail the rise of Tory Chief Whip Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson, Dark City, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), a man with unwavering contempt for those with "no background, no bottom.Urquhart schemes more devilishly than Iago to depose Thatcher's colorless John Major-style successor.