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Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: The Golden Pince-Nez - Sherlock Holmes VHS Video
 Based on 3 reviews.
.Amazon.com With Dr. Watson absent from the tale (actor Edward Hardwicke was busy shooting the Anthony Hopkins feature Shadowlands), Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) is joined by his brother Mycroft (Charles Gray) in an investigation into the murder of one Willoughby Smith, secretary to a chain-smoking, invalid professor (Frank Finlay). Gray's amusing, inscrutable performance helps supplement that of the valiantly struggling Brett, whose considerable health problems a decade into the long-running Granada Television series are well known to his devoted fans. Still, Brett does a wonderfully complex, shaded job as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's sleuth, and veteran actor Finlay is something to see as the mysterious professor. --Tom Keogh Reader Reviews OK Film, but no Watson, May 4, 2003 Reviewer: An Amazon.com Customer Granada Televison had a resourceful, but rather annoying habbit of, when Jeremy Brett couldn't take the part of Holmes, or whoever was playing Watson wasn't available, of removing them and bring Sherlock's older and smarter brother, Mycroft, into the case. When THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ was being filmed, Edward Hardwicke couldn't be at the studioes to play Watson, so Charles Gray was brought into the show to play Mycroft. A good film, but the loss of Watson makes it a bit less entertaining.
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