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Sherlock Holmes - Die Liga der Rothaarigen
episode 3
West Germany 1967
produced by WDR
directed by Paul May
starring Erich Schellow, Paul Edwin Roth, Helmut Peine, Wolfgang Weiser, Hans Hinrich, Walo Lüönd, Manja Kafka, Dietrich Thoms, Erich Schwarz, Hans Bosenius, Andrea Höckmann, Gerhard Plantikow, Reta Rena, Kurt Schmidt-Schindler
screenplay by Anthony Read, based on the short story The Red-Headed League 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) and Dr. Watson (Paul Edwin Roth) are
visited by pawnbroker Wilson (Helmut Peine), who complains about having
had a lucrative job on the side copying the encyclopedia by hand for the Red-Headed
League, a job that suddenly disappeared along with the league. And
despite this sounding exactly like a set-up for some major crime to the
untrained ear, Holmes is not interested - until he learns that the layout
for banker Merriweather's (Hans Hinrich) bank were stolen while he was
playing cards in the very next room ... and as fate has it, the bank is
right across the street from Wilson's shop. Holmes soon learns that Wilson
got the job upon the urgance of his assistant Spaulding (Wolfgang Weiser)
and ... well, you have probably guessed it by now, Spaulding is of course
a criminal who needed Wilson out of the house for several hours each day
so he and his gang could dig a tunnle from Wilson's job to the bank's
basement. Of course, Holmes and company capture Spaulding red-handed in
the end. Now on the plus side, Erich Schellow seems to have
eased into the role of Holmes by this episode, giving him just the
coldness Arthur Conan Doyle's stories often suggest. That said though,
this episode hardly lives up to his portrayal, in part at least because it
sticks too close to the letter of Conan Doyle's story, which is not one
that lends itself to well to a cinematic adaptation to begin with, being
lacking in action, wordy, and giving away its culprit way too early in the
game - and this episode makes him even more obvious early on than its
source material. On top of that, all the dialogue just seems terribly
stilted to the point of sounding totally unnatural. Certainly not a
highlight in the canon of Sherlock Holmes adaptations.
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