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The Man with the Twisted Lip
Directed by: Eric Tayler Screenplay by: Anthony Read Jan Read Cast: Douglas Wilmer Nigel Stock Anton Rodgers Anna Cropper Release Date: April 3, 1965 IMDB Storyline: Mrs. St. Clair is convinced that she momentarily saw her husband, a respectable journalist who commutes to London from their country home, looking out of the window of an opium den in a rough part of the city. The police investigate but find a bundle of clothes and no body. Mr. St. Clair is not dead but Hugh Boone, a literate beggar given to quoting the classics, knows exactly where he is and so - eventually - does Sherlock Holmes. |
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The Beryl Coronet
Directed by: Max Varnel Screenplay by: Nicholas Palmer Anthony Read Cast: Douglas Wilmer Nigel Stock Leonard Sachs David Burke Release Date: April 10, 1965 IMDB Storyline: Mr. Holder, a city banker, is Holmes' latest client. A prominent customer left him a beryl-encrusted coronet as a surety against a loan. Mr. Holder took the coronet home for safekeeping and was shocked to find his son Arthur attempting to deface it. Holmes deduces that Arthur is innocent and was only trying to cover up for another family member who has been duped by a smooth-talking thief. |
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The Bruce-Partington Plans
Directed by: Shaun Sutton Screenplay by: Giles Cooper Cast: Douglas Wilmer Nigel Stock Derek Francis Enid Lindsey IMDB Storyline: Holmes' brother Mycroft joins him to investigate the murder of Arthur Cadogan West, a clerk in a government defence office found dead by railway lines with pages from a secret submarine plan in his pocket. Holmes believes that the victim was killed somewhere other than the railway track. Discovering a suspect whose house backed on to the line and could have dropped the body onto a passing train roof leads him towards the culprits who really stole the plans and sought to incriminate an innocent bystander. |
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Charles Augustus Milverton
Directed by: Philip Dudley Screenplay by: Clifford Witting Cast: Douglas Wilmer Nigel Stock Barry Jones Penelope Horner Release Date: April 24, 1965 IMDB Storyline: Charles Augustus Milverton, 'the most dangerous man in London' is a loathesome blackmailer, preying on the weaknesses of his victims. Lady Eva Blackwell asks Holmes to broker a deal with Milverton to retrieve some letters which would harm her impending marriage but Milverton only ups the asking price. Masquerading as a work-man Holmes discovers where the blackmailer keeps his victims' letters and, with Watson, breaks in at night and destroys them. They are interrupted by Milverton and hide. A woman victim appears and shoots Milverton dead. Holmes makes no attempt to stop her nor will he assist Lestrade in the subsequent murder case. |
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The Retired Colourman
Directed by: Michael Hayes Screenplay by: Anthony Read Jan Read Cast: Douglas Wilmer Nigel Stock Maurice Denham Peter Henchie Release Date: May 1, 1965 IMDB Storyline: Josiah Amberley, a retired dealer in artists' materials, engages Holmes to find his wife who has run off with his money and a man called Dr. Ray Ernest whilst he was at the theatre. In the course of his investigation Holmes teams up with rival sleuth Baker, employed by Dr. Ernest's family to locate him. Holmes gets Amberley out of the way and breaks into his house, discovering that things are not as they have been explained to him. |
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The Disappearance Of Lady Frances Carfax
Directed by: Shaun Sutton Screenplay by: Vincent Tilsley Cast: Douglas Wilmer Nigel Stock Enid Lindsey Peter Madden Release Date: May 8, 1965 IMDB Storyline: Lady Frances Carfax, an independent aristocratic young woman, goes missing on holiday having dismissed her maid. Watson, later joined by Holmes, investigate a burly follower of the lady but he turns out to be an old flame, Philip Green ,who is anxious to rekindle his acquaintance with Lady Frances. The trail leads back to London and 'Dr. Shlessinger' a jewel thief masquerading as a holy man, from whom Holmes manage to save Lady Frances suffering a macabre fate. |
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