Product Details

• Actors: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison, Edmund Breon, Frederick Worlock
• Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: September 6, 2005
• Run Time: 72 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009X75JC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #229,244 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Sherlock Holmes - Prelude to Murder (aka Dressed to Kill) (Colorized / Black and White)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In colour and black and white-restored to perfection, March 11, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Sherlock Holmes - Prelude to Murder (aka Dressed to Kill) (Colorized / Black and White) (DVD)

Don't be put off by people slating the colourising techniques/results.
As a lifelong fan of Rathbone and Sherlock Holmes, all the these colourised dvds are a delight. the colours come across well, and the picture and sound is excellent.
It's simply snobbish to complain about these colourisations-it's not as if it's been done permenantly and you do have the option to watch in black and white.
Oh, and nothing is cut from these films in these editions.

For Rathbone fans-buy them! For fans of the films-buy them!

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dressed to Kill, November 26, 2008

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Teresa Anson (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sherlock Holmes in color : Prelude to Murder (DVD)

The last of the Rathbone Sherlock Holmes series, Prelude to Murder was likewise the last of an era for British filmmaking. By this time, the actors and writers had begun to show their age, and their enthusiasm for the characters they were portraying had noticeably slipped--such is the case for any film series that extends on for fourteen installments (imagine if James Bond never cycled actors, for instance). Prelude to Murder is also the last and latest Legend Films entry into the Sherlock Holmes world, for the time being. By this point in time, having three other Holmes films under their belt, Legend has perfected its application of their colorization technology, resulting in a quite beautiful job that is among their best. Judging from the relatively poor quality of the public domain versions of the film, Legend had their work cut out for them in cleaning up this classic to the presentable state it finds itself.

But just because this may be one of the best colorizations of a classic film doesn't mean that you have to watch it that way, because Legend has included the cleaned-up black and white version on the same disc. This way, those who prefer to watch their films in the traditional, nostalgic way can do so, while those of us might enjoy a little added spice of color can have our druthers as well.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Prelude to Murder" and "Dressed to Kill" are the same movie, March 2, 2010

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Blase J. Gallo - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sherlock Holmes in color : Prelude to Murder (DVD)

"Prelude to Murder" and "Dressed to Kill" are the same movie. Don't be lured into buying both. That is never mentioned on the jacket or in the description.