Sherlock Holmes - The silk stocking killer

Movie
German title	Sherlock Holmes - The silk stocking killer
Original title	Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Country of production	United Kingdom
original language	English
Publishing year	2004
length	100 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Simon Cellan Jones
script	Allan Cubitt
production	Elinor Day
music	Adrian Johnston
camera	David Katznelson
cut	Paul Garrick
occupation
Rupert Everett : Sherlock Holmes Ian Hart : Dr. Watson Jonathan Hyde : George Pentney Eleanor David : Mary Pentney Helen McCrory : Jenny Vandeleur Neil Dudgeon : Inspector Lestrade Julian Wadham : Hugo Massingham Penny Downie : Judith Massingham Perdita Weeks : Roberta Massingham Michael Fassbender : Charles Allen Anne Carroll : Mrs. Hudson Guy Henry : Mr. Bilney Rachel Hurd-Wood : Imogen Helhoughton Tasmin Egerton : Miranda Helhoughton Christine Kavanagh : Lady Helhoughton

Sherlock Holmes - The Silk Stocking Murderer (Original Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking ) is a 2004 TV movie directed by Simon Cellan Jones for the BBC . The film is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson , played by Rupert Everett and Ian Hart .

action

London in 1902: Sherlock Holmes leads a lonely life of boredom, consuming drugs and hanging out in opium dens . When a woman's corpse is found on the banks of the Thames , Watson tries to interest him in the case. The unidentified dead woman had a silk stocking around her neck and based on the clothing one suspects she was a prostitute. Holmes has no interest in the case and sends Watson away, but when he takes a closer look at the photo of the woman, he realizes that she is Alice Pentney, an upper-class lady. Her mother, Mrs. Pentney, is the Duchess of Narborough. The Duke of Narborough, Lord Pentney, then orders Holmes to find his daughter's murderer. Holmes finds out that the victim was anesthetized with sleeping pills in a brandy and must have known the killer.

Watson's fiancée Mrs. Vandeleur, a psychoanalyst from the USA, suspects a sexual motive and draws Sherlock's attention to the book Psychopathia sexualis . The next victim is Georgina Massingham found hanging from a street lamp. She was anesthetized with chloroform , had a silk stocking around her neck and wore Alice Pentney's clothes. Both victims had their shoes made by shoemaker Bilney. Via Mr. Bilney you come across his former employee Sarah O'Brien, who is alleged to have committed suicide. Watson has Sarah O'Brien exhumed and it is revealed that she was the first victim of the serial killer and that he had dressed the later victim Alice Pentney in her clothes.

At Georgina's funeral, 13-year-old Imogen Helhoughton is kidnapped, but the perpetrator releases her after discovering that she has a clubfoot . Holmes finds out that the Duchess of Narborough's current personal servant, Charles Allen, was employed in the homes of all three victims. However, everyone has a safe alibi for all times of the crime.

Holmes uses Roberta Massingham as bait for the perpetrator and Charles Allen is actually caught stunned her. Everyone is arrested, but Holmes explains that he must have a twin brother, which would explain his alibi. From the fingerprints they can tell that they caught the wrong one. The other twin brother kidnaps Roberta from her room. Holmes and Watson find his hiding place, free Roberta and arrest both twin brothers. Watson eventually marries his fiancée.

background

• As in the BBC film adaptation of The Dog of the Baskervilles from 2002, the film was again produced by Tiger Aspect Productions and the script was written by Allan Cubitt. Dr. Watson is again played by Ian Hart, but Richard Roxburgh has been replaced by Rupert Everett as Sherlock Holmes.

• The dialogue at the beginning of the film, in which Holmes says that Watson had put on seven and a half pounds and Watson insists it was only seven pounds, comes from the story A Scandal in Bohemia .

Reviews

"Dignified Conan Doyle adaptation, which after a slow beginning develops a considerable amount of tension and is well entertained by the convincing main actor (in solid BBC style)."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

• Rupert Everett was nominated for Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie for the 2005 Satellite Awards .
• Adrian Johnston was nominated for a 2005 RTS Television Award from the Royal Television Society for film music .

Web links

• Sherlock Holmes - The Silk Stocking in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Conan Doyle: A scandal in Bohemia in the Gutenberg-DE project
2. ↑ Sherlock Holmes - The silk stocking killer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .