A Study in Terror

1965
1h 35m

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6,5/10

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John Neville in A Study in Terror (1965)

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Crime Mystery Thriller

Sherlock Holmes et le Dr John H. Watson se joignent à la chasse au tueur en série notoire, Jack l'Éventreur.Sherlock Holmes et le Dr John H. Watson se joignent à la chasse au tueur en série notoire, Jack l'Éventreur.Sherlock Holmes et le Dr John H. Watson se joignent à la chasse au tueur en série notoire, Jack l'Éventreur.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

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A Study in Terror

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Anecdotes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never wrote a story in which Sherlock, a fictional character, worked on the real-life Jack the Ripper case. However, Dr. Joseph Bell, the real-life inspiration for Holmes, was consulted by Scotland Yard on the case.

Gaffes
In 1888, they sing a song "Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-De-Ay!" which is composed by Henry J. Sayers in 1891 and was not introduced into Britain until 1892.

Citations
Sherlock Holmes: My dear Mycroft, this is a surprise! Watson, some sherry... Is this a social call?
Mycroft Holmes: Yes, yes, oh yes, purely social.
[pause]
Mycroft Holmes: How are you?
Sherlock Holmes: Very well.
[pause]
Sherlock Holmes: Well, now that the social call is over, hadn't we better get down to business?

Autres versions
BBFC cuts were made to the original UK cinema release to reduce shots of blood in the trough and to shorten a repeated stabbing and scenes of Annie Chapman struggling with her assailant. Later video and DVD releases were uncut.

Connexions
Featured in The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes (1985)

Bandes originales
Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Dee-Aye
(uncredited)
Written by Henry J. Sayers
Sung by Georgia Brown

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7/10

A delight for Sherlockians, a frustration for Ripperologists

I am both a fan of Sherlock Holmes and an interested observer of the case of Jack the Ripper. This film, with excellent show-saving performances by John Neville, Anthony Quayle, Robert Morley and the whole cast, was clearly written by a Sherlockian rather than a Ripperologist. A lot of Holmes's lines are lifted from stories in the original cannon. The fictional story here (where Holmes encounters Jack the Ripper) is good and basic, and I prefer the simplicity of its solution to the complexity of that in "Murder by Decree", the other Holmes-Ripper film, made in 1979. The research, however, on the Jack the Ripper crimes was clearly lousy, if not non-existent: From the first five seconds of the film, with Mary-Anne Nichols (nicknamed "Polly", but would The Times call her that?) having a knife stuck through her neck and seconds later a fat woman discovering her, when in reality, Nichols had her throat cut and her uterus torn out, two hours before she was discovered by two men. The "dear boss" letter is anything but complete here, there is no mention of the other letters or reasonable explanation for why the Ripper sent it. The writing on the wall for murder three is absent. Still, if you don't mind historical inaccuracies, this film is definitely worth watching. It has my approval.