Title: Terrible
Product review: Fortunately I saw this on PBS before buying the DVD. I would only consider this DVD if you are NOT a Holmes fan. It is such a departure from the book that really only the hound makes it recognizable. Gone is the opening deductions about the walking stick...Dr Mortimer now has a wife who holds a seance to talk to the dead Sir Charles...gone is the telegram to Barrymore. Mr Franklin is gone and Laura Lyons (which leaves unexplained why Sir Charles was in the Yew Alley that night). Added are fight scenes between Holmes and the cabby as well as one with Selden. This production clearly takes great liberties in its quest to put some sensation and action into the story. For me it is too great a departure. I'll wait for the Brett DVD due out later this month.
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