Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared

TV Movie
1951
26m

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John Longden in Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared (1951)

An adaptation of the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a very wealthy businessman with a strange secret.An adaptation of the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a very wealthy businessman with a strange secret.An adaptation of the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a very wealthy businessman with a strange secret.

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6/10

pilot for a TV episode

Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared from 1951 was a pilot episode for a TV series that didn't happen.

The Conan Doyle story gets the treatment nowadays approved by the Agatha Christie estate - pay the money, keep the title, and change anything you want.

In the beginning of the episode, a woman (Beryl Baxter) tells Hector Ross (Neville St. Clair) that he is wanted by someone - it sounds like he's being forced to do something and hasn't any choice but to comply.

Later, in Holmes' quarters, Mrs. Ross comes to report her husband as missing.

John Longren plays a balding Holmes - which doesn't matter because he wears the deerstalker cap with matching cape most of the time. He had a speaking voice similar to George Sanders - very appropriate. This Holmes, however, is different, as he breaks and enters and knocks people down the stairs.

My only question is, how dumb was he, since I had this figured out a good ten minutes or more before Holmes did.

A disappointment.

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Dec 28, 2021
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Trivia
Originally a failed TV pilot, this production was released theatrically as a short subject.

Goofs
Although this is set in the late Victorian era, trucks can distinctly be seen crossing Tower Bridge in the background.

Quotes
[first lines]
Dr. Watson: London is a very big city. Every year a lot of people vanish and are never heard of again. That's none of my business because I'm a doctor. My name is John Watson. But one of these concerned me because it was a wealthy patient of mine who disappeared without a trace.