The adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

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Movie
German title The adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Original title Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона ( Prikljuchschenija scherloka cholmsa i doktora watsona )
Country of production Soviet Union
original language Russian
Publishing year 1980
length 203 minutes
Rod
Director Igor Maslennikov
script Vladimir Valuzky
music Vladimir Dashkevich
camera Anatoli Lapschow
Juri Weksler
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

The adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson ( Russian Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона , Prikljuchschenija scherloka cholmsa i doktora watsona ) is a 1980 Soviet television film.

The three-part series is the second film in the television series " The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson ”, based on Arthur Conan Doyle's stories about Sherlock Holmes . The film consists of three parts: "The Blackmailer King " (Russian: "Король шантажа" ), "The Deadly Fight" (Russian: "Смертельная схватка" ) and "The Tiger Hunt " (Russian "Охота на тигра" ) based on Conan Doyle's short stories "Charles August Milverton", " The Final Problem " and " The Empty House ".

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The blackmail king

Charles Augustus Milverton is one of the meanest criminals in London . He lives in a large estate in a posh area, guarded by guards and a high stone wall. However, his fortune was not made righteously, but through blackmail . In Puritan England towards the end of the 19th century, Milverton sought premarital and extramarital relationships and offered his victims to buy evidence back from him so that their secret would remain undetected. Before her wedding, Lady Eva was careless about exchanging letters with a civil servant. However, she later married a very conservative lord. Milverton, who bought the letters, offers her not to let the wedding break and to buy the letters for a "very moderate price". Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson , who were hired by Lady Eva, see no legal way to steal the letters and decide to steal and destroy the compromising letters.

In disguise, Holmes manages to hire a worker named Ascot at Milverton to find the security weaknesses. Together with Dr. Watson, they break into Milverton's house, believing he is asleep.

However, the great detective and his assistant turn out to be very bad burglars. Holmes cuts his hand on the glass, and Dr. Watson forgets his towel in the conservatory. When they break into Milverton's study, they discover that he still has a meeting with a servant who wants to sell him compromising letters from her mistress. However, it is not a servant, but Lady Huxley, who was previously blackmailed by Milverton: when she refused to pay, her husband died of a heart attack after he received the letters. Lady Huxley shoots Milverton and escapes. Seeing it all, Holmes and Watson quickly destroy any compromising material and flee from Milverton's servants; in the process, Watson loses a shoe.

Thus Scotland Yard receives samples of Holmes' blood as well as the handkerchief and shoe of Dr. Watson. The second shoe is burned just in time for Lestrade to come to Holmes for help on the case. Lestrade describes the characteristics of one of the intruders, and Holmes replies that these characteristics apply to all - even Watson. Lestrade laughs at this joke while behind him the leftover shoe burns in the fireplace. Afterwards, Holmes comments on what lousy criminals they are.

Holmes and Watson seek out Lady Huxley, who still has one of Milverton's documents that she snatched from his desk when she escaped. The lady pretends to be unsuspecting, but sends the document to Holmes. Holmes sets out to decipher the code and discovers that Milverton had not worked of his own accord, but was the financier of one of London's greatest criminals, Professor Moriarty .

The deadly fight

After Holmes discovers the real criminal brain in London, things get tough for him in London. When Watson and Holmes visit a card club, Watson becomes aware of a card game in which a young nobleman named Ronald Adair plays cards together with Colonel Moran (whom Holmes describes as England's second most dangerous criminal) and, after the game, accuses him of misconduct in private. what Watson sees. Meanwhile, Holmes is brought by Moriarty's henchmen to a mysterious house, where he faces Moriarty. However, he manages to knock out the crime boss and escape.

After surviving an arson attack on 221b Baker Street , Holmes and Watson must escape to Europe. Separated from Holmes, Watson climbs into a train compartment at London Central Station that he shares with an old lady. After the train leaves, the lady turns out to be Holmes in disguise. But Moriarty is hot on Holmes' heels and is following them in a newfangled automobile .

Holmes and Watson make it to Switzerland, where they stop at a mountain hotel. The landlord, Peter Steiler the Younger, recognizes Holmes and receives him euphorically: Holmes had hunted him down at the time, but also saved him from detention and obtained the mildest sentence in court. After his release, Steiler opened a hotel in Meiringen, Switzerland in the Alps.

While walking, the friends are surprised by a stone fall. Holmes thinks he is a dangerous companion, but Watson has no intention of leaving Holmes. At the Reichenbach Falls , a messenger boy from the hotel reaches the two of them and delivers a message from Steiler: An English woman suffering from tuberculosis needs help, but refuses all doctors after she has learned that an English doctor lives in the hotel. Watson goes to the hotel and Holmes stays by the waterfall.

Suddenly Moriarty appears. Since he has mastered the deadly oriental fight baritsu, he believes that he will have an easy game. He even allows Holmes to send a note to Dr. Watson to leave behind. In this, Holmes Watson asks to keep an eye on Ronald Adair, as he is undoubtedly in danger. Holmes and Moriarty begin their fight at the Reichenbach Falls.

On the way to the hotel, Watson meets Colonel Moran. When he arrives, he discovers that he has been deliberately lured away and runs to the waterfall with Peter Steiler Jr. back. You only discover the private detective's belongings at the waterfall. Holmes plunged Moriarty into the depths of the waterfall, but was shot himself by Colonel Moran and fell into the depths as well. The depressed Watson finds Holmes' message to him, while Steiler grieves loudly.

The tiger hunt

Milverton and Moriarty are dead, but Colonel Moran is still there, threatening Ronald Adair. Dr. Watson tries to save the young aristocrat by disguising himself as a Catholic priest and as a simple doctor.

However, he doesn't manage to protect Adair. The young man is found in his room with a revolver bullet in his head. The door was closed, the window was on the first floor, there were no marks under the window and no one heard a shot. However, Watson's suspicious activity around Adair does not escape Scotland Yard's Inspector Lestrade , and Watson is charged with the murder of Adair. He is only allowed to move freely in exceptional cases, but he is not allowed to leave London.

Here suddenly Sherlock Holmes appears. He had held on to a cliff at the Reichenbach Falls and waited until dark, although he was injured by Moran's bullets. He had to hide his signs of life from Watson and only confided in his brother Mycroft. The appearance of Holmes on Baker Street brings Dr. Watson and Mrs. Hudson to the fact that the two pass out first.

Little did Scotland Yard know that Holmes is back - unlike Colonel Moran. Moran decides to kill the detective. However, Holmes manages to outwit the murderer by showing him a wax figure made by the French sculptor Menier. Moran shoots the statue from the vacant house opposite and is caught by Holmes and Watson and handed over to the police. The Tatwaffe is a special air rifle that was specially made for Moriarty by a blind German mechanic and that shoots revolver bullets. This was also the weapon used in Ronald Adair's case.

Now the three most dangerous criminals away from London are Milverton, Moriarty and Moran. Sherlock Holmes says that the letter M is enough, and the letter N is the turn, the most mysterious letter. Suddenly Mrs. Hudson comes in and says that a lady is waiting for Holmes in the reception room.

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main actor

"The Blackmail King"

"The Deadly Fight"

"The Tiger Hunt"

Film crew

Interesting facts

  • Inspector Lestrade and Professor Moriarty were dubbed: Lestrade was spoken by Igor Jefimow and Moriarty - by Oleg Dal .
  • Many consider the Reichenbach Falls to be an invention of Arthur Conan Doyle , but it really does exist. It is located not far from the Swiss city of Meiringen . At the waterfall there is a souvenir plaque dedicated to Sherlock Holmes.
  • The New Zealand Mint has a special series of two dollar silver coins dedicated to the tales of Sherlock Holmes. Still images from the Russian film are used on the obverse .
  • Many shots of Leningrad can be seen in the film. The Milverton estate was a building in Peterhof .
  • Boris Kjujew , who played Mycroft , the older brother of Sherlock Holmes, is actually 9 years younger than Vasily Liwanow.
  • Professor Moriarty was played by stuntman Viktor Yevgrafov , who was terrifying in appearance and stature. However, since he had little acting experience, his voice was oversynchronized by the well-known character actor Oleg Dahl .
  • Svetlana Kryuchkova , who played the maid Agatha in an episode role in the first episode, returned as Mrs. Barrymore in " The Hound of the Baskervilles ".

On DVD

The films were restored for DVD evaluation by two companies independently of one another: the Russian label “Twister” and the Mosfilm subsidiary “Krupny Plan”. "Twister" released all five Sherlock Holmes films by Igor Maslennikow between 2000 and 2004 on DVD, some with bonus material. The “Krupny Plan” was published in 2007, but the restoration by Twister is qualitatively better.

The "Twister" DVD contains Russian sound in Dolby Digital 5.1 as well as Russian and English subtitles. As a bonus, there is text information as well as interviews with Vladimir Waluzki, Vladimir Daschkewitsch, Vitali Liwanow, Igor Maslennikow and Vitali Solomin (the actor's last interview before his death).

The “Krupny Plan” DVD does not contain any bonus material and only Russian subtitles; In addition to the 5.1 remix, it also contains the original Russian monotone.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Sherlock Holmes Silver Coin Set ( Memento from May 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ 221b ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.221b.ru
  3. ↑ Image comparison of the Twister and the Krupny Plan version

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