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Sherlock Holmes - Die Bruce-Partington-Pläne
episode 4
West Germany 1968
produced by WDR
directed by Paul May
starring Erich Schellow, Paul Edwin Roth, Hans Cossy, Hans Schellbach, Manja Kafka, Alf Marholm, Inge A. Fuhg, Hans Weigand, Peter Martin Urtel, Günther Kirchhoff, Fritzleo Lietz, Hannes Rudolph, Willi Genske
screenplay by Giles Cooper, based on the short story The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans by Arthur Conan Doyle, music by Rolf A. Wilhelm
TV-series Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes (Erich Schellow), Sherlock Holmes in Germany
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Sherlock Holmes (Erich Schellow) recieves a rather unexpected visit
from his brother Mycroft (Hans Cossy), a political hotshot who cares
little about Sherlock's business - but now finds himself in a bind as a
man working for the defense ministry, Cadogan West (Willi Genske), has
been found dead by the underground tracks, top secret plans for a
submarine in his pocket. Now he shouldn't even have the plans in the first
place, but as it turns out they haven't only been stolen from the
ministry, some more have been stolen, probably also by West - but how did
West even get to take the plans from the ministry? Holmes and Watson (Paul
Edwin Roth) investigate and find there are only two men who have the keys
for the safe where the plans are kept, one's Sidney Johnson (Peter Martin
Urtel), who can soon prove he had nothing to do with it, the other has
just died, as his brother Colonel Walter (Alf Marholm) is quick to assure
Holmes and Watson. On the other hand, Holmes becomes more and more
convinced that it wasn't really West who tried to sell the plans. He soon
identifies the agent that was selling, one Marcello Romani (Hans Weigand),
and as Romani's out of town he and Watson break into Romani's apartment,
and find that it must have been there that West's body was pushed onto the
roof of a subway train, and then carried to wherever it was found after
falling off the roof. Holmes also detects how Romani was communicating
with his contact in the ministry, via classified ads in the newspaper. So
he places another classified - to catch Colonel Walter as Romani's
contact, and then uses the Colonel to capture Romani. Basically,
this German Sherlock Holmes series - actually remakes of
selected episodes of the BBC
series starring Douglas Wilmer - never really came into its
own - at least from today's point of view. Now sure, Erich Schellow finds
into his role more and more the longer the series goes, but at the same
time, all the episodes seemed rather stagey and unexciting, and this is a
very good example. Of course, on one hand this is owed to the still very
archaic TV technology of its day, on the other also to the very stale
script of this one, one that's just over-complicated, not very
suspenseful, and really the story it's based on doesn't lend itself to an
adaptation all that well.
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