The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Collection
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Actor: Jeremy BrettBrand: MPI
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Portuguese (Unknown); English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 51 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Mpi Home Video
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- Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke return for their final bow in THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. Closing out the long running Granada series, Holmes and Watson are back on the case with six more arduous mysteries to solve. The ailing Jeremy Brett completes his portrayal of the Great Detective in style and Holmes' brother Mycroft plays a crucial role in the series. Produced by Granada Tele
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Movie Review: A Fond Farewell
Summary: 5 Stars
To love Conan Doyle's great detective Sherlock Holmes was never so satisfying as when the brilliant actor, the late and profoundly missed Jeremy Brett, breathed life into his fictional bones giving us arguably the greatest depiction of the Baker Street sleuth ever captured on film.
For me, Brett's is the truest Holmes ever attempted in movies or TV, and the Granada productions more authentically Victorian-era London than any made before this fantastic series or since.
There are some who deride Brett's later portrayals of Holmes, when the actor was very ill and had lost the sleek, angular look that Holmes had been endowed, both by his creator Doyle and his most popular illustrator, Sidney Paget. For me, that criticism is pure balderdash.
When taken in its entirety, the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series stands the test of time as the definitive telling of the stories, the later episodes underscoring Brett's courage as he faced personal tests that shattered his emotional and physical well-being. I would argue that it is that very human element in Brett's portrayal that makes his Holmes so breathtakingly accurate, compelling and poignant. Holmes denied his humanity and in so doing became more vulnerable as a human being exposing deep character flaws and weaknesses. In Brett, we not only see but feel those shortcomings, and something deeper, too: each person's ultimate struggle to find his or her place in life before death calls us home.
There are 36 episodes and five feature-length films in the Brett-Granada series that spanned 1984 to 1994. Holmes' "Boswell," otherwise known as Dr. John Watson, was adeptly played by David Burke until 1985, then Edward Hardwicke for the remainder of the series. This box set, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, represent the last of the episodes and were produced in 1994 by June Wyndham-Davies. After a decade as Holmes, Brett filmed these last episodes then died Sept. 13, 1995.
The episodes collected here include: The Three Gables; The Dying Detective; The Golden Pince-Nez; The Red Circle; The Mazarin Stone; and the Cardboard Box. (The Dying Detective is especially haunting as Holmes feigns a fatal illness to capture a killer and it is obvious that Brett is very ill.)
Other boxed sets from MPI include the remainder of the series: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Return of Sherlock Holmes; The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes; and the Featured Film Collection that includes The Master Blackmailer, The Last Vampyre, The Eligible Bachelor, The Sign of Four, and the immortal Hound of the Baskervilles.
I am thrilled that MPI has FINALLY put the entire series out on DVD. I also remain deeply grateful to Jeremy Brett and everyone involved in creating these productions.
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