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Sherlock Holmes - Sechsmal Napoleon

episode 2

West Germany 1967
produced by
WDR
directed by Paul May
starring Erich Schellow, Paul Edwin Roth, Rudolf Kleinfeld-Keller, Heinz Bennent, Werner Hessenland, Magda Hennings, Manja Kafka, Heinz Balk, Hermann Lenschau, Hans Schellbach, Johannes Buzalski, Alfred Balthoff, Arno Görke
screenplay by Giles Cooper, based on the short story The Adventure of the Six Napoleons 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


Sherlock Holmes (Erich Schellow) and Doctor Watson (Paul Edwin Roth) receive a visit from their friend Inspector Lestrade (Hans Schellbach), who presents them with the rather curious case of three Napoleon busts that have been stolen and/or shattered. The case as such is a mere trifle, as the busts aren't worth much, but it intrigues Holmes nevertheless, especially after learning they all were of the same built, from the same factory, and sold in the same batch. Then another bust of the batch, this one owned by journalist Harker (Heinz Bennent) is stolen and broken, and a murder occurs nearby. Now Holmes lays a trap for the killer at the home of another bust-owner (Werner Hessenland), and uses an article he asks Harker to put in his newspaper to lure the culprit there - and of course, with the help of the police, the thief is caught-red handed, and it turns out he had some relations to the murder victim. Holmes then tracks down the sixth and last Napoleon bust of the batch, buys and breaks it, and inside finds the long stolen Black Pearl of the Borgia. Turns out the thieves had hidden them inside the bust before it got sold off before they could get hands on it, and with no indication which Napoleon holds the pearl, they had to go after each and every bust in that particular batch ...

 

Stiff and stagey is probably the best way to describe this second episode of this German Sherlock Holmes series, based of course on the BBC series of the same name, as teh whole episode stays too closely to the letters of the script, doesn't even try to find the irony between the lines or work out the suspense of certain scenes, depicts everything in a disappointingly matter-of-fact manner, and never uses any cinematic techniques to improve upon the mere dramatization of the story - and in that respect, especially when the culprit is shown breaking in to steal the busts, it looks almost farcial. And that Erich Schellow plays his Sherlock Holmes in a very cold, no-frills way really plays into all of this. That said of course, Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Six Napoleons isn't the most dramatic story to begin with, so the material might be partly to blame for a rather boring episode.

 

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