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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9781419816161
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1419816160
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 30983
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Editorial Review:
Description:
When the murder of a penniless shopgirl is linked to the body of debutante Lady Alice Burnham, legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Rupert Everett) immediately begins to piece together the clues. The murky world of the menacing London docks collides with the glamour and glitter of Edwardian high society as Holmes and Dr. Watson (Ian Hart) are reunited to solve a case that threatens to overwhelm the privilege and tranquility of aristocratic society.
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary by Simon Cellan Jones (Director) and Elinor Day (Producer)
Biographies:Cast bios
Amazon.com:
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking is an excellent Sherlockian pastiche, i.e., part of a genre of original works featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most beloved character, but taking various liberties Doyle most likely would not have embraced. Rupert Everett gives a wholly original performance as Holmes--not an easy thing to do in the shadow of Jeremy Brett's definitive portrayal on Britain's Granada Television in the 1980s. Both Everett and the story capture Holmes during his most dissolute period, hooked on opiates, refusing to eat, and more often than not without the company of his friend, Dr. Watson (Ian Hart, essaying the character a second time), who had left Baker Street to pursue a private practice and marry his second wife. This is Holmes deep in the career crisis eventually resolved by his duel with Moriarty in Doyle's canon, but in The Case of the Silk Stocking the Great Detective is vexed by a murderer preying upon the daughters of London aristocrats. Elements of the killer's sexual fetishism make this a particularly grim tale that the discreet Watson would most certainly not have chronicled. The dark but imaginative tale is lightened a bit by the presence of Watson's fiancee (Helen McCrory), an American psychiatrist as aghast as she is impressed by Holmes' lack of emotional attachment to his work. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Watch Jeremy Brett instead
Despite its lavish costumes and good score, this production can do nothing to mask its poor casting. As the title role, Everett is awkward and frenzied . . . not like the cool, calculating Holmes we all know- he seems less like a brilliant (and frightening) genius and more like a raving drug-addict. (Not to mention the terrible violin scene...) The script does little to capture the spirit of the Conan Doyle stories.
Take my advice and watch Jeremy Brett instead. Or better yet, go read the books.
Rating:  - hoping for some sort of series
i really enjoyed this movie. i do love the jeremy brett films, but they're still.... um... decent i guess is the word. i don't think i ever even heard the word RAPE in the brett series. this was darker, more outgoing with a few twists-but i did feel that since the beginning, the writer wanted you to be part of solving it, and gave the audience clues. i really hope for more movies spark from this with everett. i believe any holmes movie following brett would be tough and and everett pulled it off. i liked ... Read More
Rating:  - A Different Take on Familiar Ground
In a radical departure from the usual screen portrayals of Sherlock Holmes, Rupert Everett brings an air of whimsy and debauchery to the role of the famed detective in "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking". Drug-addled and fey, with his top hat and tux, this Holmes cuts a glamorous swath through London high society as he tries to stop a murderer preying on Victorian debs. Never once do we spy his deerstalker or twill overcoat, although Arthur Conan Doyle made it clear in his famous stories ... Read More
Rating: - Not Jeremy Brett
This is not Jeremy Brett, and as such it can never be a great version of Sherlock Holmes. But if you have to settle for less than the best it is not horrible. It is also not a story that Doyle wrote; it is an original screen play using Doyle's character. Which is why the plot sort of does this kind of flop on the descent toward the finale. Keeping these things in mind, it's ok.
Rating:  - Sherlock Holmes and the case of the silk stockings
As Sherlock Holmes go this was okay. Did not like the actors as well as some that I have seen.
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