As for the designer, Michael Grimes, he could not get a period train. While they race to Julia's room like a rescue operation commando, they climb fences, dive onto the ground and watch out for the enemy in the darkness, from which director John Bruce draws great effect. Both men bring useful information which furthers the investigation and above all, take part in bold actions. The Holmes/Watson team works marvellously here and not only during comical events like the moment when Holmes drags Watson out of sleep.
His Holmes is sometimes considerate and amiable, sometimes supremely detached or cheeky and provocative, but always fascinating. Jeremy Brett shines by his accurate, efficient and attractively stylish acting as well as by his dynamic demeanour and remarkable expressiveness. We hate Doctor Roylott, a Machiavellian and merciless brute, powerfully embodied by Jeremy Kemp and we are moved by his victims: poor Julia who, cheerful and unsuspecting, plays croquet with her fiancé under her stepfather and future murderer's eye, and lovely Helen, played by Rosalyn Landor with quivering sensitivity. By choosing a snake as murder weapon, Conan Doyle arouses fear right away, for in our imagination snakes represent sly and hideous evil. Yet, this dark, Gothic concoction works on the page, and it certainly worked in Jeremy Paul's adaptation for Granada. » It's nothing to be surprised at as the story brings the viewer all the thrills he could wish for.
The episode is an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's short story : The Adventure of the Speckled Band (1892).Īccording to David Stuart Davies, « The Speckled Band is a preposterous tale involving fantastic, risible and incredible events. 6) is the 6th episode of season 1 of the Granada series: Sherlock Holmes (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes), starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and David Burke as Dr.
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