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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 05 February, 1987 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Mpi Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Movie, Mystery / Suspense, Mystery / Suspense / Thriller, TV Shows |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 030306017846 |
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Customer Reviews of Sherlock Holmes: Man With the Twisted Lip
A Disappointment Despite being based on one of Conan Doyle's better stories, this is one of the duds of the Granada series: poorly photographed and staged, and lacking the story's crisp drama. The solution of the mystery is particularly limp.
See two handsome actors make themselves thoroughly hideous!
This story always seemed to me to be the most preposterous of tales. A rich man masquerading as a beggar?
Then I read of a medical student doing precisely the same thing in New York City in 1999. Bravo, Dr. Doyle. I might even start believing in fairies now...
Jeremy Brett has a ball in this episode. He gets to hang around an opium den in the character of a crazed loafer, and he and Edward Hardwicke bring some nice comic touches to the Holmes/Watson relationship. It is trying, sometimes, being woken at 2 a.m. by a roommate who is shaking your foot and insisting you have to go somewhere, NOW...
The supporting cast is excellent as usual and there is a great feel for the grubby, nasty alleyways of London's East End. This is Victorian England as it was, not as historical filmmakers would have it.
I can't understand why they changed the script slightly from the story; in the original, Mrs. St. Clair seems to have some rather personal designs on our hero. In this show, she's a tower of moral certitude. I suppose someone in the show had to be.
Listen for some of the fine banter between Holmes and Watson, especially during their carriage ride.