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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Blue Carbuncle - Sherlock Holmes VHS Video
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Blue Carbuncle - Sherlock Holmes VHS Video
Features
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, 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 Quotes & Trivia
- ASIN: 630341852X
- Average Customer Review:
 Based on 5 reviews.
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Amazon.com
One of the most popular of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, The Blue Carbuncle is given exciting treatment in this Granada Television adaptation, featuring Jeremy Brett and David Burke in definitive performances as the famous detective and his ally and chronicler, Dr. Watson. The story concerns the disappearance of a gem called the Blue Carbuncle, which has been hidden inside the crop of a Christmas goose and which is linked to a terrible history of murders, suicides, attacks, and robberies. Stolen from the Countess of Morcar (Rosalind Knight), the jewel's trail leads Holmes all over wintry London and to a decision that stuns Watson in its legal and ethical implications. Tightly woven and cleverly adapted from the page, The Blue Carbuncle is a worthy adaptation of a classic tale. --Tom Keogh
Reader Reviews
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
The Best Victorian Christmas Mystery!, May 2, 2000
Reviewer:
Michael B. Bruneio
from Easton, PA United States
"The Blue Carbuncle" is one of my favorites in this excellent series. Holmes and Watson must spend the holidays engaged in a baffling jewel theft, while encountering lost hats and geese, down-on-their-luck intellectuals, and a hostile livestock merchant along the way. This episode is both hilarous and touching, as Holmes shows a side of himself very rarely seen. Though Holmes and Watson are brilliantly played, the superb acting of the supporting characters makes this one stand out: the character of Mr. Henry Baker as a down-on-his-luck, aging intellectual is given with inspiring dignity, and the poultry merchant at Covent Garden steals his hilarious scene with his inexplicable hostility toward inquiries about his precious geese. This episode is the perfect blend of Christmas story, detective fiction, and morality tale, and no modern-day Holmes collection should be without it!
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