The Man with the Twisted Lip part 1

Granada's adaptation of The Man with the Twisted Lip.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• twisted lip
• sherlock holmes
• watson
• granada
• jeremy brett
• david burke

[TheCripplerChick]

"And what am I to tell Mr. Holmes should he return?"

"Tell him I've disappeared without a trace."

The more I watch this show the more I adore it.

[TheLittleRussian2]

Well, pretty soon you wouldn't be able to do a hard day's work if you did that.

[skeletalpigeon14]

i think if you look at them seperately, you can enjoy both. The original stories and these old tv shows are good for mystery. The new movies are good and actually my favorite movies. They put a little bit of intelligence and humor into a thriller (as opposed to say, Fast and Furious). They both are awesome in my opinion, but the new ones definately show Holmes differentely than he's portrayed in Sir Conan O'Doyles's stories.

[crystadette]

@MrHoppers002 Not a whole lot of needless action, YES ABSOLUTE! They ain't bloody hooligans for deity's sake, Holmes and Watson are gentlemen who would avoid violence if possible, not go around shooting and hurting people (however antagonistic they may be) without second thoughts! The new film digustingly does Sherlock Holmes absolutely no justice at all. It may be a good movie, but it might as well be named "Robert Downey Jr. and the Alternative Start to World War I".

[MrHoppers002]

I'm not opposed to holmes revisions either however there are certain boundaries with the character. for example he is not a over the top action character as portrayed in the new film. It doesn't work that way. The best of holmes is to have a very good mystery, suspense, throw in some action here and there. But the whole thing is about the drama and the MYSTERY.

[cha5]

@MrHoppers002 I'm not 100% opposed to revisionist interpretations of Sherlock Holmes. As far as a really imaginative revisionist take on Holmes I'll take Nicholas Meyer's 'The Seven Percent Solution' or even the BBC Benedict Cumberbatch/Martin Freeman series 'Sherlock', but IMHO the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movies take a "throw the baby out with the bathwater" approach that does nothing for me.

[cha5]

@MrHoppers002 You'll get no argument from me on that point, I really can't stand Robert Downey Jr's 'Hobo Holmes'.

[MrHoppers002]

oh please the granada version gave holmes class. The new movies did anything but that.

[thedashingmaverick]

Stupid auto correct.... I meant Brett

[thedashingmaverick]

Jeremy Berry, like Connery, one of the best ever! A true gentlemens gentlemen. For yours is the kingdom of Heaven, Sir........

[217andersen]

I like this novel，but it is really disgusting to slander Asians selling Opium. In fact, the British East Indian Company is the really biggst Opium smuggle company at that times

[hzy126]

Love how Watson chucks down that paper and curses to himself.

Then moments later, "You're causing us no trouble at all, come in." XD