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Sherlock Holmes - The Eligible Bachelor - Sherlock Holmes VHS Video
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Sherlock Holmes - The Eligible Bachelor - Sherlock Holmes VHS Video
Features
Director: Peter Hammond
Format: Color, NTSC
Rated: NR
Studio: Mpi Home Video
Video Release Date: March 28, 1995
VHS Features:
- NTSC format (US and Canada only. This VHS will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD
- Average Customer Review:
 Based on 5 reviews.
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Amazon.com
A little overextended as a two-hour movie, this installment in Granada Television's long-running Sherlock Holmes series was one of several such feature-length productions made late (1992) in the enterprise. Based on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor," The Eligible Bachelor finds Holmes (the ailing Jeremy Brett, playing an increasingly darker and more neurotic detective) and Dr. Watson (Edward Hardwicke) called upon to help in a case involving the disappearance of Henrietta Doran (Paris Jefferson), fiancée of the noble Lord Robert St. Simon (Simon Williams), who was last seen with a former lover of St. Simon's, Flora Millar (Joanna McCallum). The unimaginative Scotland Yard instantly arrests Millar on suspicion of foul play, but it is Holmes who has to find the missing woman. Fans of the entire series might best enjoy this slightly clunky program, though there is much of interest about Brett's performance to recommend it. --Tom Keogh
Reader Reviews
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
A Sherlock Holmes Masterpiece, June 8, 2003
Reviewer:
Ian Low
from Singapore
This was the last of the full-length Sherlock Holmes films produced by Granada featuring Brett and Hardwicke. And it is also the best. Veering away from a more conventional approach, Eligible Bachelor (EB) features a more artsy and filmic approach by Peter Hammond, and in improving the original short story by Doyle, Trevor Bowen managed to wring out an exceptional script that turns the light hearted tone of the original into a dark, almost gothic masterpiece. Brett is at his best and considering his health problems at the time, his performance was just sensational. The production values were at its best and unlike the lackadaisal Last Vampyre, EB is gripping, and suspenseful till the end. As a full-length film, it is perhaps the best of almost all Sherlock Holmes filmes out there, atmospheric and authentic, but with the additional of the best Holmes and Watson ever to grace a screen. This may not the best place to start with Brett's Holmes, but it is certainly the pinnacle of an outstanding series that easily the better of 90 percent of all Hollywood films being released now. A Masterpiece.
--This text refers to the DVD edition.
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