Hands Of A Murderer - Sherlock Holmes
by Stuart Orme
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Actor: Anthony Andrews, Edward Woodward, John Hillerman, Kim Thomson, Peter JeffreyDirector: Stuart Orme
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Content/Copy-Protected CD, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: KOCH VISION
Movie Reviews of Hands Of A Murderer - Sherlock Holmes
Movie Review: The Worst Holmes I've ever seen.
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie is essentily a bad remake of many of the Basil Rathbone movies.
This movie rips off several ideas from the Rathbone movies.
here are just a few of the rip offs as follows.
-Moriarty escapes being hanged
(Adventures of S. H. where Moriarty is aquited of murder)
-Woman hypnotises lord
(The Woman In Green. this movie even reuses the bowl with water and flowers)
and there are others I am sure.
not only does this movie represent the Rathbone storys in a bad way but the plot and story are boring
even the actors seemed bored of what they are doing.
many of the story elements are just plain dull.
holmes pretends to be dead
just to catch Moriarty placing a reath on his suposed grave stone.
If you want Sherlock Holmes watch a good Rathbone movie
or some of Jermey Brett's early Holmes's work.
anything but this!
Summary of Hands Of A Murderer - Sherlock Holmes
Edward Woodward stars as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective Sherlock Holmes in a showdown with his nemesis Professor Moriarty. Moriarty (Anthony Andrews) has escaped from prison and has kidnapped Holmes' brother Mycroft to break a secret code that he has been unable to crack. It's up to Holmes and Watson (John Hillerman) to save Mycroft and stop Moriarty from carrying out a diabolical plot that threatens the future of the British Empire.Sherlockian completists will be interested in this ambitious pastiche that neglects innumerable conventions from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes canon but offers an original showdown between the Great Detective and his nemesis, Professor Moriarty. Holmes (Edward Woodward), vexed by Moriarty's daring escape from the gallows, rebuffs a request by his brother Mycroft (Peter Jeffrey) to assist on a government matter but ends up seeking his older sibling after Moriarty (Anthony Andrews) kidnaps him. The villainous professor--a mathematical genius--can't break a secret code of Mycroft's design, putting the latter at risk and upping the ante in Holmes's longtime battle with his foe. John Hillerman makes a low-key Watson who calmly stands up to Holmes' condescension, and Terence Lodge's bumbling Lestrade actually elicits sympathy. The story by Charles Edward Pogue isn't as good as his earlier television adaptations of Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Sign of Four, but it is memorable. --Tom Keogh
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