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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - A Scandal in Bohemia

episode 1

UK 1984
produced by
Michael Cox for Granada Television/ITV
directed by Paul Annett
starring Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Gayle Hunnicutt, Wolf Kahler, Michael Carter, Max Faulkner, Tim Pearce, Rosalie Williams, Tessa Worsley, Will Tacey, Tom Watt, Paul Elsam, David Baukham, Edward York, John Graham-Davies, John Carr
screenplay by Alexander Baron, based on the story by Arthur Conan Doyle, music by Patrick Gowers

TV-series
Sherlock Holmes, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett), Irene Adler

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) receives a visit from the Bohemian King (Wolf Kahler), who is about to be married to some Princess or other - but who has once had an affair with Irene Adler (Gayle Hunnicutt), who is not only American but who doesn't have a drop of aristocratic blood in her veins. Unfortunately though, she also has a compromising photograph of herself with the King in her possession, and whatever the King has done to retrieve it, he hasn't succeeded - and now he lives in permanent fear that the woman he once has dropped because of hercommon roots will try to ruin him.

Holmes employs all sorts of her disguises to follow Irene Adler's every step, witnesses her getting married to a lawyer (Michael Carter), who might be involved with the affair, and finally tricks her into giving away the hiding place of the photograph ... but Irene Adler has long seen through Holmes's game, and when he finally arrives with the King to very officially retrieve the photograph, she has already skipped the country and only left a note for Holmes congratulating him on his almost-success.

The photograph? Irene Adler, who has found happiness with her new husband, has decided to destroy it and not bother the King anymore ...

David Burke plays Doctor Watson.

 

I am of two minds abouit this very first Sherlock Holmes-episode starring Jeremy Brett: On one hand, he makes a very good Sherlock Holmes, makes Holmes's cocaine- and morphine-addiction as believable as his predilection for disguises, and hints of his ruthlessness come to the fore as well. On a directorial level, the episode might be old-fashioned and even a bit stagey, but somehow that fits the material.

What I didn't like about A Scandal in Bohemia though was its story: Basically it's about a pompous man dropping his girlfriend because of her heritage, and then comnplaining because she wants to pay him back. Sure, there is an international scandal involved, but by heck, this guy who calls himself King has been a womanizer and is now reluctant to pick up the bill, so much so that he hires others to do his dirty work. The problem with this is that because of this basic premise, the whole thing is less than compelling, and part of me actually wanted Holmes to fail and the King to be exposed.

Having said all that, I'm sure the episode remains fairly close to Arthur Conan Doyle's source short story, and it wouldn't have made proper sense not to have filmed it in the course of the series, I just wouldn't have made it episode 1 and would have put the focus differently ...

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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