Doctor Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery | |
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Genre | Crime Mystery |
Written by | Kingsley Amis |
Directed by | James Cellan Jones |
Starring |
Edward Fox Elaine Taylor Christopher Cazenove |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producer | Mark Shivas |
Running time | 70 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC |
Release | 27 December 1974 |
Doctor Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery is a 1974 British made-for-television mystery film directed by James Cellan Jones and starring Edward Fox as Doctor Watson. [1]
While Sherlock Holmes is away on holiday, Watson journeys to Darkwater Hall in the Cotswolds to protect a woman's husband from harm.
Filmed at Stow-on-the-Wold, [2] Watson was portrayed as competent and intelligent [2] as opposed to the popular idea of a bumbling character as Nigel Bruce portrayed him in an earlier series of fourteen films. He is also portrayed as a virile womanizer as the character claims to be in The Sign of the Four. [1] [3]
The film references A Study in Scarlet, " The Adventure of Black Peter", " The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" and " The Adventure of the Speckled Band". [4] Fox would go on to play the character of Alistair Ross in another Sherlock Holmes pastiche, The Crucifer of Blood. [4]
According to author Kingsley Amis, "the reviews were excellent." [2] Alan Barnes calls the film "part-deconstruction, part-parody of Doyle" that "ends up resembling a long drawn-out shaggy dog story." [4]
Doctor Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery | |
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Genre | Crime Mystery |
Written by | Kingsley Amis |
Directed by | James Cellan Jones |
Starring |
Edward Fox Elaine Taylor Christopher Cazenove |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producer | Mark Shivas |
Running time | 70 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC |
Release | 27 December 1974 |
Doctor Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery is a 1974 British made-for-television mystery film directed by James Cellan Jones and starring Edward Fox as Doctor Watson. [1]
While Sherlock Holmes is away on holiday, Watson journeys to Darkwater Hall in the Cotswolds to protect a woman's husband from harm.
Filmed at Stow-on-the-Wold, [2] Watson was portrayed as competent and intelligent [2] as opposed to the popular idea of a bumbling character as Nigel Bruce portrayed him in an earlier series of fourteen films. He is also portrayed as a virile womanizer as the character claims to be in The Sign of the Four. [1] [3]
The film references A Study in Scarlet, " The Adventure of Black Peter", " The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" and " The Adventure of the Speckled Band". [4] Fox would go on to play the character of Alistair Ross in another Sherlock Holmes pastiche, The Crucifer of Blood. [4]
According to author Kingsley Amis, "the reviews were excellent." [2] Alan Barnes calls the film "part-deconstruction, part-parody of Doyle" that "ends up resembling a long drawn-out shaggy dog story." [4]