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Jeremy Brett

Sherlock Holmes

Edward Hardwicke

Doctor Watson

Robert Hardy

Charles Augustus Milverton

Norma West

Lady Diana Swinstead

Gwen Ffrangcon Davies

The Dowager
(as Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies)

Colin Jeavons

Inspector Lestrade

Nickolas Grace

Bertrand

Serena Gordon

Lady Eva Blackwell

Sarah McVicar

The Hon. Charlotte Miles

David Mallinson

Colonel Dorking

Brian Mitchell

Harry, Earl of Dovercourt

Hans Meyer

Hebworth (Alias Veitch)

Sophie Thompson

Agatha

Stephen Simms

Stokes

Rosalie Williams

Mrs Hudson

Belinda Peters

Lillie

Henrietta Whitsun-Jones

Daphne
(as Henrietta Whitson-Jones)

Alan Rothwell

Tronson, The Butler

Director
- Peter Hammond
Writers
- Jeremy Paul
- Arthur Conan Doyle
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Colonel Dorking commits suicide after a blackmailer reveals his secret to his fiancée, causing the wedding to be abandoned. On of his final acts is to leave a note to Sherlock Holmes with the details of blackmailer's nefarious ways and his identity: Charles Augustus Milverton. Holmes discovers that several others have been victims of Milverton and sets out to stop him continuing his evil ways.

A film-length episode of Sherlock Holmes, double the length of a standard episode. A length longer than 50 minutes was probably required but someone must have prescribed a length of 102 minutes, rather than just let it run for its natural length. The substance of this episode is a lot less than 102 minutes, resulting in many slow-moving sections and some padding.

It's interesting enough, just a slog to get through some portions.

grantss
Dec 30, 2022
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Trivia
Gwen Ffrangcon Davies, who played the Dowager, was 100 years old when this was filmed in 1991. She died the same month it premiered, having turned 101.

Goofs
A Scotland Yard police detective is seen picking up a discarded weapon with a handkerchief which was not a common practice in 1894, when the film was set. Fingerprint detection was not adopted in Britain until 1901, if that was his reason. Actually, the gun was covered in blood and the policeman would seem to desire keeping his hands clean of blood.

Quotes
Sherlock Holmes: I've had to deal with fifty murderers in my career, but the worst of them never gave me this sense of revulsion I feel at this moment toward Mr Charles Augustus Milverton.