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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004) (TV)
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26 December 2004 (UK)
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A serial killer stalking the teen-aged daughters of the aristocracy brings Sherlock Holmes out of his drug-filled semi-retirement. | add synopsis
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2 nominations
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A Good Holmes, A Mediocre Story
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Rupert Everett | ... | Sherlock Holmes | |
| Nicholas Palliser | ... | Dr. Dunwoody | |
| Neil Dudgeon | ... | Lestrade | |
| Ian Hart | ... | Dr. Watson | |
| Anne Carroll | ... | Mrs Hudson | |
| Tamsin Egerton | ... | Miranda Helhoughton (as Tasmin Egerton) | |
| Perdita Weeks | ... | Roberta Massingham | |
| Jennifer Moule | ... | Georgina Massingham | |
| Eleanor David | ... | Mary Pentney | |
| John Cunningham | ... | Bates | |
| Michael Fassbender | ... | Charles Allen | |
| Jonathan Hyde | ... | George Pentney | |
| Gina Beck | ... | Maid | |
| Helen McCrory | ... | Mrs. Vandeleur | |
| Andrew Wisher | ... | Constable (as Andy Wisher) |
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (UK) (working title)
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99 min
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Daniel Webb played Lestrade in Hound Of The Baskervilles but was not available to play the role again
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Anachronisms: The police are seen using telephones in 1902, but in reality, the first phone was not installed at New Scotland Yard until 1903.
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Dr. Watson:
Is it Bach you're playing?
Sherlock Holmes: I prefer German music when I feel introspective.
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Sherlock Holmes: I prefer German music when I feel introspective.
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Featured in "Time Shift: A Study in Sherlock" (2007)
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Stage, screen, and television adaptations or features using Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's characters turn on one simple, inescapable point: do we believe the actor as Holmes? If the answer is yes, then a bad story is still pretty good. If the answer is no, then whatever other attractions the story holds are worthless.
The answer here is clearly yes: Rupert Everett is very good as Sherlock Holmes. The transfer from print to screen is almost flawless. If anything, too much is made of Holmes' obvious flaws as a human being: his recreational drug use, patronizing arrogance, indifference to the feelings of others, preoccupation with the workings of his own mind. This Holmes reminds me of Dorian Gray. It is only his love of solving crimes that keeps him from committing them.
The story is pretty pedestrian. This isn't quite as bad as "the butler did it," but it's close. I won't spoil the movie as others here have by saying more. I liked the scenes where Holmes is reasoning out who the killer is. This was clever, unforeseen, and quite believable. But, from the time the chief suspect is identified, until he was finally caught .. the entire climax of the movie, in other words .. was ..well, trite, clichéd, and elementary, my dear Watson ..
Kudos to Helen McCrory and Perdita Weeks in supporting performances.