The First and The Best Sherlock Holmes
This is an excellent Sherlock Holmes collection. The sound is fantastic.
On so many remastered old films, words can sound jumbled up. Not this one. Basil Rathbone stars in, The Woman in Green, Terror By Night, Dressed to Kill with the lovable fumbling Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce-he was truly the one and only Dr. Watson). Arthur Wontner stars as SH in,
The Sign of Four, Triumph of SH and Murder at the Baskervilles.
Total running time: 6 hrs. and 54 min. at a very low, reasonable price.
This set is the best remastered one I have ever seen of any old film.
Good collection but missing Sign of Four
There were four productions of Sherlock Holmes mysteries starring Matt Frewer as Holmes. The first was the Hound of the Baskervilles, the second the Sign of Four, then the Royal Scandal and the Whitechapel Vampire. I have to deduct a star from this DVD collection, because the Sign of Four is inexplicably replaced with an old Basil Rathbone movie which I already have on another DVD. Unfortunately, I did not notice this when purchasing, which is my mistake, of course, but an easy mistake to make since Frewer's face appears on the cover and Rathbone's does not. However, now I have to contemplate whether I want to make another purchase in order to have the complete Frewer collection. I deduct another star because it is a cheaply produced set with all four movies crammed onto one DVD and no DVD extras.
Many people seem to not care for Frewer's depiction of Holmes, but one must admit that he looks the part much more than many other actors who have attempted the role. Frewer...
Poor picture
The picture is so poor you can hardly make the characters out. There must be a decent piece of film left somewhere. I never even finished watching it.
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