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Arthur (Christian Wolff), son of rich banker Holder (Herbert Tiede) has a gambling problem, and is thus in debt - and his father cuts him off. Later that same day, Holder shows him and his niece Mary (Ingrid Resch) a beryl tiara a client left with him as security for a loan, a tiara he locks away in his desk that can be opened quite easily. That night, Arthur is found at the desk with the tiara that has a piece missing. Of course he's immediately suspected of having stolen the missing piece, even though it can't be found on him or anywhere in the house, and is arrested for theft. That's of course where Holmes (Erich Schellow) and Watson (Paul Edwin Roth) come into play, and Holmes is soon enough convinced that Arthur holds something back, very probably to protect someone, and soon enough he tracks down Arthur's gambling partner Sir George (Alexander Hegarth), steals a pair of his shoes dressed as a vagrant, proves they match the shoe prints found in Holder's garden, then he and Watson pay Sir George a visit, confront him with their findings, upon which he tries to attack them but is knocked out by Watson - and of course, the missing piece of the diadem is found on him.

Later, Holmes explains the case to Holder: Arthur was very much in love with Mary - as much was well-known - but she not with him. And in the night of the theft, Arthur witnessed Mary and George, obviously her lover, stealing the tiara, but when George made his getaway, Arthur tried to stop him and at least tore the tiara out of his hands to return it to the desk - which is when Holder found him. Now Arthur was completely unaware that a piece was missing from the tiara at that point, and remained hush about what really happened for Mary's sake ...

Now like many of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short stories, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet is not one that lends itself particularly well to a film or TV-adaptation, as it's a rather dry tale of Holmes deducing, and the fact that technical limitations of the time didn't allow for much of a cinematic extravaganza to begin with, meaning the whole thing looks very stagey on top of everything else. Now on the plus side of course, Erich Schellow as Sherlock Holmes seems to get better with every episode, but most of the other actors take a very stilted, theatre like approach to their roles,a nd Paul Edwin Roth's Watson comes across as rather rude even. Another problem with this episode is that it's played very much to the letter, all attempts at irony and social commentary even (prevalent in the source story) are ignored or just bent back into a straight approach. So in all, just not very good, unfortunately.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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