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Those Who Would Be Holmes

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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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