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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Speckled Band - Sherlock Holmes VHS Video
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Speckled Band - Sherlock Holmes VHS Video
Features
Director: David Carson, Derek Marlowe
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: 6303418481
- Average Customer Review:
 Based on 8 reviews.
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Amazon.com
Another of the strongest entries in the long-running Sherlock Holmes Television series from Granada, The Speckled Band finds distraught Helen Stoner (Rosalyn Landor) coming to Holmes (Jeremy Brett) and Dr. Watson (David Burke) in fear for her life since announcing her betrothal. The reason: Helen's sister Julia (Denise Armon) died mysteriously and in apparent terror in her bedroom two years earlier, on the night before her own wedding. The only clue to her death was Julia's strange reference to a "speckled band," uttered among her final words. Threatened to keep out of the case by Helen's fearsome stepfather (John Gill), Holmes and Watson proceed anyway, uncovering (in Watson's words) a "horrible and subtle crime" that is among author Arthur Conan Doyle's most imaginative. This episode has it all: a damsel in distress, a considerable villain, lots of suspense, and a solution worth waiting for. Brett and Burke are at the top of their game as Doyle's dynamic duo; this story was, in fact, Doyle's personal favorite from the Holmes canon. --Tom Keogh
Reader Reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
I love it!, July 25, 2002
Reviewer:
A viewer
from the United States
This episode is very well done. I love the firepoker scene. That scene is my second favorite one from the canon and I was not disappointed with it here. I love the expression on Burke's face when Holmes straightens out the firepoker and the way Brett smiles after he does it. It is priceless. The rest of the episode is great as well. I highly recommend it.
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