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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
See two handsome actors make themselves thoroughly hideous!
This story always seemed to me to be the most preposterous of tales. A rich man masquerading as a beggar? Then I read of a medical student doing precisely the same thing in New York City in 1999. Bravo, Dr. Doyle. I might even start believing in fairies now... Jeremy Brett has a ball in this episode. He gets to hang around an opium den in the character of a crazed...
Published on October 19, 1999
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0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
A Disappointment
Despite being based on one of Conan Doyle's better stories, this is one of the duds of the Granada series: poorly photographed and staged, and lacking the story's crisp drama. The solution of the mystery is particularly limp.
Published on August 13, 2000 by laddie5
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
See two handsome actors make themselves thoroughly hideous!,
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This review is from: The Return of Sherlock Holmes: Man With the Twisted Lip [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This story always seemed to me to be the most preposterous of tales. A rich man masquerading as a beggar?Then I read of a medical student doing precisely the same thing in New York City in 1999. Bravo, Dr. Doyle. I might even start believing in fairies now... Jeremy Brett has a ball in this episode. He gets to hang around an opium den in the character of a crazed loafer, and he and Edward Hardwicke bring some nice comic touches to the Holmes/Watson relationship. It is trying, sometimes, being woken at 2 a.m. by a roommate who is shaking your foot and insisting you have to go somewhere, NOW... The supporting cast is excellent as usual and there is a great feel for the grubby, nasty alleyways of London's East End. This is Victorian England as it was, not as historical filmmakers would have it. I can't understand why they changed the script slightly from the story; in the original, Mrs. St. Clair seems to have some rather personal designs on our hero. In this show, she's a tower of moral certitude. I suppose someone in the show had to be. Listen for some of the fine banter between Holmes and Watson, especially during their carriage ride.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
A Disappointment,
This review is from: The Return of Sherlock Holmes: Man With the Twisted Lip [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Despite being based on one of Conan Doyle's better stories, this is one of the duds of the Granada series: poorly photographed and staged, and lacking the story's crisp drama. The solution of the mystery is particularly limp.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes: Man With the Twisted Lip [VHS] by Jeremy Brett (VHS Tape - 1994)
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