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Sherlock Holmes - Das Haus bei den Blutbuchen

episode 6

West Germany 1968
produced by
WDR
directed by Paul May
starring Erich Schellow, Paul Edwin Roth, Hanns Ernst Jäger, Katinka Hoffmann, Brigitte Drummer, Karlheinz Fiege, Manja Kafka, Franz Mosthav, Ilse Künkele, Jürgen Schneider, Hans Schellbach, Edith Mill, Elisabeth Trebitz, Elsa Faure
screenplay by Vincent Tilsley, based on the short story The Adventure of the Copper Beeches by Arthur Conan Doyle, music by Rolf A. Wilhelm

TV-series
Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes (Erich Schellow), Sherlock Holmes in Germany

review by
Mike Haberfelner


As Sherlock Holmes (Erich Schellow) and Dr. Watson (Paul Edwin Roth) are contemplating to get roaringly drunk (really), Violet Hunter (Katinka Hoffmann), a young gouverness, turns up at their doorstep to seek advice: She has just been offered a job by Jephro Rucastle (Hanns Ernst Jäger) and his wife (Brigitte Drummer) to look after their son (Jürgen Schneider) that sounds just too good to be true, as it pays double of what her old job does, but she'd have to cut her hair and follow a few other simple rules, like playing the piano and posing for photos at her employers' fancies, and only wear certain dresses. Holmes encourages her to accept the job as he's interested in the meaning of it all. Now the job itself seems to be alright, but it seems there's a young man (Karlheinz Fiege) waiting outside the gates to the mansion watching her, and Mr. Rucastle insists Violet should gesture him to leave. It soon dawns upon Violet that she ought to impersonate someone else, and she also finds the maid (Ilse Künkele) is apparently feeding someone in a secret room. She calls on Holmes and Watson, and Holmes very much agrees with her deductions. So the next time her hosts go out, she finds a way to get the maid out of the way, and then invites Holmes and Watson over to investigate - and they find a secret room where they suspected it alright, but it's empty. However there's a ladder on the outside, so it seems whoever-it-was was freed by someone. The Rucastles however only pretended to go out to spring a trap on Violet who they figure knows to much, a trap they didn't think through at all though mind you, and in the finale, Mr. Rucastle is badly mauled by his own mastiff. Now the solution to the whole case, the woman locked up in the secret room was the rightful heiress to the Rucastle fortune, and Violet was to impersonate her and then be killed in an "accident" so the Rucastles could then do away quietly with the real heiress and get their hands on the inheritance - and yeah, I don't know either why they just didn't kill the real heiress in an "accident" rather than creating a silly charade. However, the young man from before was the real heiress's fiancé who saved her while Holmes and Watson investigated the house.

 

Last of the Sherlock Holmes cases starring Erich Schellow in the title role, and sure one of the livelier ones - even if Sherlock Holmes really doesn't do all that much here, it's much more up to the leading lady to do all the footwork, all the investigating, all the deducting, and Holmes only comes in as  knight in shining armour it seems - which in most part is of course true to the source story. That said, Katinka Hoffmann does give an engaged performance, while some of the others, especially Hanns Ernst Jäger's as villain, seem rather stilted. On the plus side then, there's at least bits of humour in this one, though Watson's constant allusions to drinking do become a bit tedious over time. In all though, this one ends the series on a comparably high note.

 

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