Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Terror (1965)

If there ever was a perfect Mycroft Holmes, it was Robert Morley, who resembled the Sidney Paget illustrations a lot. So this is for him.
Well, this clip is not an adaptation from the pages of A. C. Doyle, but the first movie having Holmes solving the case of real-life Jack the Ripper. John Neville, a very good actor, is too much of a clean, fancyful Dandy character to be my taste as Holmes, although he does fine. Donald Houston is a bore as Watson, but the movie also had a perfectly rat-faced Lestrade in Frank Finlay (who played the part again in the Seventies).
The Prime Minister is Cecil Parker, Dudley Foster played the Home Secretary.

Mycroft, as drawn by Sidney Paget, can be found here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Mycroft_Holmes.jpg/1...

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