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THE RATHBONE HOLMES - THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1939)

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The opening credits play and, behind those most familiar of names stands Sherlock Holmes, in silhouette, pipe smoking and bullseye lamp casting its light as for clues. Closing on a cluttered desk, a book is opened. Inside, the opening page;

An English Court room. Four judges sit on the bench, as the Clerk of the Court asks a jury if they have reached verdict. They have. At the words 'The Prisoner will rise' a tidy, bespectacled man with a trim beard and scholarly air looks up from his note-ta...

Murder By Decree - Sherlock Holmes hunts Jack the Ripper

London. 1888. The camera pans across the rooftops to the Thames and in a foggy street in the Whitechapel District, few venture forth. A horse and cart and the occasional local, a dog barking somewhere in the gloom. Hurrying through a narrow back-street, a woman looks behind her fearfully. Frantically, she knocks on a door. Crossing the street, a Constable walks his beat. And there is the carriage. Emerging from the nebulous haze, a masked coachman sits mutely as his passenger alights onto the...

Without A Clue - Holmes with a twist...

An ornate French ormolu clock chimes the hour. It is four o'clock. Marble statues look on mutely as a door opens, whining on its hinges. Two burglars enter, one setting down a sledgehammer. The harsh sound of breaking glass and gloved hands grasp a trophy of solid gold. One of the blackguards assesses its value at over ten thousand pounds!. They will be rich... but a shadow steps forward, a man with a pipe in his mouth. 'Not this time, gentlemen.' It is Sherlock Holmes!.

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The Seven Percent Solution - The Forgotten Holmes

It was October 24th, 1891, that Dr. John Watson heard from Sherlock Holmes for the first time in four months. At the urging of Mrs. Hudson, in the form of a telegram, the Doctor returned to his former lodgings at 221b Baker Street. 
[image error] Alison Leggatt is Mrs. Hudson.Delighted to see her former tenant, the landlady informs him that Holmes has taken to his rooms, refusing food and keeping the oddest of hours. A shout comes down; Holmes is ranting about Moriarty, a name Watson has only heard whe...