Sherlock Holmes - Murder By Decree (1979)
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Uploaded by Thespilian on Jul 29, 2008
Didn't I say I won't upload a Holmes clip for a while? Well, I lied. Or not really, 'cause I wanted to stop for a while, but then I remembered one of the funniest moments of Holmesian screen history, although the movie as a whole is almost dead serious.
The whole movie is, of course, non-Canonical. It rather took the idea from a book on Jack the Ripper published in the Seventies, "revealing" the true identity of the mad murderer. That theory is still popular - it also was the base for the TV movie Jack the Ripper with Michael Caine, and for From Hell.
In Murder By Decree, Christopher Plummer played a highly emotional Holmes (he played Holmes before in the TV movie Silver Blaze), the great James Mason a trusty Watson (who, despite his age, turns really out to be a man of action!). Frank Finlay, not in this clip, repeated the part of Inspector Lestrade he already played in that other Holmes/Ripper movie, A Study in Terror.
As for the scene - seeing's believing. Murder Of A Pea instead of Murder By Decree probably ...
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