Loved It
I loved this film tonight. Just because Barbara Windsor and her her annoying voice got killed off pretty quick.
shareI did also!
I had just gone to bed, looking for something to watch as I go to sleep [and then set the sleep mode on so it will switch itself off] and found this film.
I didnt know at the time what it was and had never seen a Holmes film before, apart from bits of the Hound Of The Baskervilles when I was a lot younger.
I had just caught the start and started nodding off with the opening credits then I heard Watson mention Sherlock Holmes' name, and I sat up to watch for a bit.
From that point onwards I couldn't bare to sleep, missing an intriguing story.
*SPOILERS*
I thought it was fantastically written and did not expect what happened when Sherlock told Watson to demand to speak to Ella Osbourne [not sure on her first name] and it was Sherlock disguised as the tramp fella.
Nor did I expect it to be Lord Carfax to be Jack, though I did not really put much thought into it being the time of night it was.
*END SPOILERS*
John Neville, I thought, was fantastic as Sherlock Holmes. I loved all of his reasoned deductions and was something of which to be in awe.
Anybody recommend any other Sherlock Holmes films?
There are masses of SH films. I particularly like "The case of the Silk Stocking".
Thought Robert Morley was great as Mycroft. The references to Holmes's violin playing were hilarious.
I really like the Hammer film you mentioned seeing bits off, "Hound of the Baskervilles". Cushing is very well-suited to the role. However I don't think I have seen any other Holmes movies.
sharethis shyt is on tonight, bbc 2..if u live in the UK.
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RADIO TIMES.
A Study in Terror Monday 25 August
12:50am - 2:20am
BBC2 London & South East
No fictional character has been portrayed more often on screen than Sherlock Holmes, but of the scores of actors to tackle the role, few deserved a second outing beneath the famous deerstalker more than John Neville. In this neatly plotted, at times gruesome, picture, based on an Ellery Queen novel, he gives a stylish performance as Baker Street's most famous tenant - a portrayal which is all the more impressive for the lack of acting or sleuthing support he receives from Donald Houston as Watson. Director James Hill re-creates the Whitechapel of the Jack the Ripper era with evident relish, and the solution is a corker.
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I'm having it that 'Jack' was also the police surgeon at the time thus uncaught.
To ajsadler, I just got here but try:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001651/board/inline/14552226