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In an empty house, the body of American businessman Drebber (Craig Hunter)
is found, & for inspectors Lestrade (William Lucas) & Gregson (Gerge
A.Cooper), two cut-out suspects are quickly found - either Drebber's
businesspartner Stangerson (Ed Bishop) or Arthur Charpentier (Larry Dann),
whose sister Alice (Edina Ronay) Drebber had an affair with - much to Arthur's
dismay.
Master detective Sherlock Holmes (Peter Cushing) in the meantime has some
ideas of his own, tieing his suspicions solely on a wedding ring found at the
scene of the crime - & it seems he is proved right, when Stangerson is
killed too, while Arthur Charpentier is still in jail ... & all under the
nose of inspector Lestrade, who is knocked out by the escaping killer.
Holmes' invetigations meanwhile prove to be more promising, & after he
has gotten a telegram from America containing the name of the man he thinks has
a likely motive, it's easy for him to find that man, a cabby, in London through
his network of Baker Street Boys, (led by Tony McLaren).
Holmes' suspicions are of course proved right, when the Cabby, Jefferson
Hope (Larry Cross) admits to have killed Drebber & Stangerson because back
in America they had abducted his fiancée & Drebber had forced her to marry
himr, causing her to die of a broken heart. Since that time, Hope had pursued
Drebber & Stangerson, until he finally picked up their trail in London,
& disguised as a cabby, he always managed to stay close to them ... until
the very end.
& the wedding ring found at the Drebber murder scene was in fact his
fiancées, which he placed deliberately at the scene of the crime so it would
be the last thing Drebber would see. Now, with the two gone, Hope can calmly
await his own end, as he suffers from a bad heart anyways.
Nigel Stock lays Doctor Watson, by the way.
Obvious budgetary & temporal constraints are clearly visible in BBC's Sherlock
Holmes series from the 60's, as its sets look rather unimaginative
& everything but lavish, & the directin is very stagey. Furthermore not
all the actors are really all that good. However, Peter Cushing is again great
as Sherlock Holmes, filling the characteer with life & determination in
every scene, while Nigel Stock gives able support as Watson.
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