Product Details

• Actors: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Rosalie Williams, Eric Porter
• Producers: John Hawkesworth
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Mpi Home Video
• VHS Release Date: March 28, 1995
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630341852X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #261,305 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Victorian Christmas Mystery!, May 2, 2000

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Michael B. Bruneio (Macungie, PA.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Blue Carbuncle [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"The Blue Carbuncle" is one of my favorites in this excellent series. Holmes and Watson must spend the holidays engaged in a baffling jewel theft, while encountering lost hats and geese, down-on-their-luck intellectuals, and a hostile livestock merchant along the way. This episode is both hilarous and touching, as Holmes shows a side of himself very rarely seen. Though Holmes and Watson are brilliantly played, the superb acting of the supporting characters makes this one stand out: the character of Mr. Henry Baker as a down-on-his-luck, aging intellectual is given with inspiring dignity, and the poultry merchant at Covent Garden steals his hilarious scene with his inexplicable hostility toward inquiries about his precious geese. This episode is the perfect blend of Christmas story, detective fiction, and morality tale, and no modern-day Holmes collection should be without it!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Forget the Grinch -- Run This One at Christmastime!, October 7, 1999

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Steven L. Shoup (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Blue Carbuncle [VHS] (VHS Tape)

An impeccable entry in the Granada series. Remarkably faithful to the short story, this puzzler comes equipped with all the high-water elements you've come to expect from these productions: brilliant cast, story, sets, costuming, and a faithful adherance to period. Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes is flawless. Any actor thinking of donning the deerstalker and inverness might just as well forget it: Brett has put Holmes in his pocket and carried it away into history. The final two scenes of this holiday mystery capture the "goodwill toward men" that not only will have tears streaming down your cheeks, but gives us a glimpse of humanity in the icy-cold Mr. Holmes.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the OTHER great Victorian Christmas story, June 21, 1999

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This review is from: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Blue Carbuncle [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you've run A CHRISTMAS CAROL to death, try THE BLUE CARBUNCLE as your next holiday movie. Not that you have to wait until Christmas to enjoy this one. It gets my vote as the single best episode of the superb Granada Holmes series (and there is a lot of competition for the distinction.) Victorian London has never looked colder and bleaker. An innocent man is accused of a robbery, and the stolen object turns up in a most unlikely place. Sherlock Holmes solves the mystery and must also deal with his own conscience. The superb cast does excellent ensemble work and the film's production values are outstanding.