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Sherlock Holmes: The Eligible Bachelor (1992)

Sherlock Holmes: The Eligible Bachelor (1992)
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Jeremy Brett returns as master detective Sherlock Holmes in this adaptation of the Arthur Conan Doyle short story produced for British television. Hettie Doran (Paris Jefferson) is a wealthy American who has agreed to marry Lord Robert St. Simon (Simon Williams), widely regarded as the most eligible bachelor in Great Britain. On the day of the nuptials, Hettie goes missing, and Sherlock Holmes (Brett) and his assistant, Watson (Edward Hardwicke), are called in to investigate by the distraught groom. However, Holmes has personal misgivings about the case, which have been provoked by a series of troubling dreams. Sherlock Holmes: The Eligible Bachelor also features Rosalie Williams and Geoffrey Beevers. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Starring:
Jeremy Brett
Director(s):
Peter Hammond
Format(s):
DVD
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Synopsis of Sherlock Holmes: The Eligible Bachelor

Jeremy Brett returns as master detective Sherlock Holmes in this adaptation of the Arthur Conan Doyle short story produced for British television. Hettie Doran (Paris Jefferson) is a wealthy American who has agreed to marry Lord Robert St. Simon (Simon Williams), widely regarded as the most eligible bachelor in Great Britain. On the day of the nuptials, Hettie goes missing, and Sherlock Holmes (Brett) and his assistant, Watson (Edward Hardwicke), are called in to investigate by the distraught groom. However, Holmes has personal misgivings about the case, which have been provoked by a series of troubling dreams. Sherlock Holmes: The Eligible Bachelor also features Rosalie Williams and Geoffrey Beevers. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Theatrical Feature Running Time:
105 mins

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Director(s):
Peter Hammond
Writer(s):
T.R. Bowen
Producer(s):
Rebecca Eaton, June Wyndham-Davies
Categories:
Mystery & Suspense
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    Robert H.

    My wife and I are huge fans of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series, but this disc turned us both off completely. It's a warped adaptation of The Noble Bachelor, bearing almost no resemblance to the original. Instead there is a completely ridiculous story about someone being kept prisoner for years by two murderers. Why wouldn't they just murder the person? Unbelievable plot, and it's the invention of the screenwriters, not Conan Doyle. We were also put off by the depiction of Sherlock as somewhat unbalanced or unhinged. Horrible.

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    LEANNE D.

    This is one of the worst, if not the worst, of the Granada adaptions of Sherlock Holmes featuring Jeremy Brett, portraying him as some sort of clairvoyant who suffers from haunting dreams. If the viewer can wade through the first 28 minutes of poorly connected and confusing scenes, the movie does eventually pick up with the introduction of Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson. Jeremy Brett and Hardwicke are both fine actors, and the source material is good, but the screenplay really lets them and us, the viewers, down. The story told in the film does not closely adhere to "The Noble Bachelor", and the choice of abrupt intercuts between the clients' story and the travails of Holmes only compounds the problem, making a bad story hard to follow. Very disappointing directing - next time, pick a story and stick with it, and try not to make every character as unsympathetic as possible.

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    Dianne S.

    totally weird and disjointed.

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