Other Sellers on Amazon
97% positive over last 12 months
Image Unavailable
Color:
-
-
-
- Sorry, this item is not available in
- Image not available
- To view this video download Flash Player
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Collection
Purchase options and add-ons
Genre | Mystery & Thrillers |
Format | Closed-captioned, NTSC, Color, Box set, Multiple Formats |
Contributor | Jeremy Brett |
Language | English |
Runtime | 51 minutes |
Frequently bought together
Similar items that may deliver to you quickly
- Sherlock Holmes: The Feature Film CollectionBrett, JeremyBlu-rayFREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by AmazonGet it as soon as Wednesday, Mar 27
- The Seven-Per-Cent SolutionHerbert RossDVDFREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by AmazonGet it as soon as Wednesday, Mar 27Only 15 left in stock (more on the way).
- To Kill a Mockingbird 60th Anniversary (DVD)Gregory PeckDVDFREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by AmazonGet it as soon as Wednesday, Mar 27
- Maltese FalconDashiell HammettDVDFREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by AmazonGet it as soon as Wednesday, Mar 27
- North By NorthwestCary GrantDVDFREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by AmazonGet it as soon as Wednesday, Mar 27
- The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection [Blu-ray]James StewartBlu-rayFREE Shipping by AmazonGet it as soon as Wednesday, Mar 27
Product Description
Product Description
Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke return for their final bow in THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. Closing out the long running Granada series, Holmes and Watson are back on the case with six more arduous mysteries to solve. The ailing Jeremy Brett completes his portrayal of the Great Detective in style and Holmes' brother Mycroft plays a crucial role in the series. Episodes: The Three Gables, The Dying Detective, The Golden Pince-Nez, The Red Circle, The Mazarin Stone, The Cardboard Box
Amazon.com
Jeremy Brett ended his riveting run as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous sleuth in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1994), the final set of episodes in the long-running Granada Television series. In The Three Gables, an old widow receives a suspicious offer of a large sum of money to move out of her depressing mansion and leave absolutely everything behind. Holmes looks into this strange proposition and comes face to face with an enforcer and powerful pugilist, who Holmes cuts down to size with verbal agility. This adaptation may, in all honesty, be an improvement on Doyle's original story. The Dying Detective features Brett in a particularly strenuous and emotionally compelling performance as the Great Detective. Following his uncharacteristically provocative threat to expose a murderer, Holmes becomes mortally ill and delirious. Brett, who was actually suffering from cardiac problems at the time, certainly looks the part of the doomed hero, and his urgency in the role is haunting and poignant.
With Dr. Watson (the also excellent Edward Hardwicke) absent from The Golden Pince-Nez, Holmes is joined by his brother Mycroft (Charles Gray) in an investigation into the murder of a secretary to a chain-smoking, invalid professor. Gray's amusing, inscrutable performance helps supplement that of the valiantly struggling Brett, whose considerable health problems a decade into the series are well known to his devoted fans. The Red Circle draws upon facts related to a one-time, secret Italian terrorist organization. Holmes and Watson investigate a mysterious lodger who tells Holmes of her ties to the Red Circle and of her efforts, along with those of her missing husband, to break free of the Circle's long arm of revenge.
The ailing Brett largely stepped aside for The Mazarin Stone, a radical reinvention of the Doyle story, which was based on a one-act play also written by Doyle and performed in 1921. Instead of Holmes solving the crime, this time it is his brother, Mycroft (Gray again), ably assisted by Watson. (Sherlock does show up from time to time in a dream-like refrain, thinking through some knotty problem in a moonlighted garden.) Despite the absence of Brett from the main proceedings, the episode is still fun to watch, if largely out of curiosity to see Mycroft in action.
Controversial upon its first publication in 1893, The Cardboard Box confronts some nasty consequences of adultery. Holmes and Watson link the grisly mailing of two severed human ears with a complicated love triangle. Holmes, an expert in ears, naturally, has no problem with the mystery of where they came from. But toward what end mortals pursue "this circle of misery, violence, and fear" is another question. Though still ill at the time and at the end of his Holmes career, Brett gives a focused, remarkable performance while Hardwicke lends strong support. --Tom Keogh
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.75 x 1 inches; 5.6 ounces
- Media Format : Closed-captioned, NTSC, Color, Box set, Multiple Formats
- Run time : 51 minutes
- Release date : October 26, 2004
- Actors : Jeremy Brett
- Language : English, Unqualified
- Studio : Mpi Home Video
- ASIN : B0002JP44G
- Number of discs : 3
- Best Sellers Rank: #58,450 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2,944 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
- Customer Reviews:
Customer reviews
Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon-
Top reviews
Top reviews from the United States
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
The Three Gables
The Dying Detective
The Golden Pince-nez
The Red Circle
The Mazarin Stone
The Cardboard Box
We watched Jeremy Brett as he waxed more haggard over the series. He had a heart condition that would kill him in 1995 at age 61. Looking at the series, now, Jeremy's physical decline is very painful to watch and yet he never lets Holmes go, he is the great detective to the end. We love him!
My greatest pleasure in the Granada films is the magic of the cameramen in all the Holmes films and these cameramen love nuances. The camera constantly zeroes in on a person's eyes until they fill the screen. Holmes is not spared, he gets the closeups, too, the great eyes ringed with shadow. Granada brings Victorian England to life like no other producer. Aspen branches so heavy with rain they droop to the ground; a magnificent garden viewed through a filigreed gate; geraniums spilling over from huge jardinieres; the wonderful high-stepping coach horses' clopping hooves echoing on the cobblestones, the camera at fetlock level; tapestries and carpets glowing like jewels in the homes of the wealthy; Holmes and Watson stepping out in top hats, in fact the costuming throughout for all the players is wonderful; gaslights eerie in the fog; reflections of the players in mirrors, or perhaps the glass of paintings, even eyeglasses,so that you see both the actor himself in the foreground, and his reflection in the background...well, I could burble on forever.
My favorite of the six stories is "The Cardboard Box" which takes place during the Christmas season. A Victorian Christmas is a wonderful thing and Holmes adds to the festive arrangements by fitting various Christmas baubles to his array of bubbling glass beakers, crucibles, flasks and tubes. But the overall tone of this fine episode is an almost weary resignation towards the follies of mankind- the hate, the treachery, the jealous love which leads to murder. "When will it ever end?" says Holmes to Watson.
If you haven't tried any of the Amazon Instant Downloads, do take the plunge! The SD or "Standard Definition" selection I can find no fault with even though it's a dollar cheaper than the HD or "High Definition". At the bottom of the screen will be a slider bar showing the advance of the film. You can toggle the bar with your mouse so that you may repeat any particularly delicious scene.(You can hide the bar if you wish).
depart the series, and, this Earth..
This season stars [as do all 4 seasons/"series"] Jeremy Brett [1933-'95] as Holmes.
Edward Hardwicke [1932-2011], Sir Cedric Hardwickes' son, plays Doctor Watson
in ALL, but, the first season/series.
I bought the 12 DVD-disc collection, back in 2009, for $222. But! Currently, a
complete, 12 BLU-Ray-disc collection costs $150-$200.
Buy each of the five, different BLU-RAY collections INDIVIDUALLY.
Due to age and other factors, the DVDs are inferior to the newer Blu-Rays.
Buy-as-soon-as-possible; the prices will, soon, rise as there're, only 6, each,
of the [individual season-/series-] Blu-Ray sets left. The entire collected box-
set has been mentioned as having defective retaining spindles, and actually
COST a bit extra that way.
I prefer t-h-e-s-e sets to the [imperfect] VHS-video-cassette-tapes and DVDs.
Here's a Listing, in-order, with their prices as of 4/30/2021:
** Adventures of Sherlock Holmes- [3 Blu-Ray discs] @ $35
** The Return of Sherlock Holmes- [3 Blu-Ray discs] @ $20
**The Casebook of Sherlock Holms[2 Blu-Ray discs] @ $20
*The Sherlock Holmes Feature Films[2 Blu-Ray discs]@$25
*The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - [2 Blu-Ray discs]@$15
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Buy them while you CAN! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Jeremy Brett, literally, put his heart AND sole into these episodes, and while SOME lament ". . Memoirs . ." as being the least of the four, in this collection, I find NO fault with ANY episode, knowing that while the fictional Sherlock Holmes died at the end of Season One, the READERS back-in-the-day demanded Sherlock return from the dead [seen as the second-season, here on video].
During "The Memoirs" episodes you can see "Sherlock" die a second time, from which there is NO RETURN,
except in these marvelously filmed, and executed, episodes of thirty-six 50-minute, and, five, feature-length movies.
Bravo!
Top reviews from other countries
The entire set is available on DVD, however, I could find only two sources that offer transcriptions to Blue Ray. There is a Japanese site that offers the complete set in one series but it is very expensive.
The only other Blue Ray offering I could find is this Spanish Amazon.com site. All of Jeremy Brett's episodes are captured in 5 Blue Ray disks.
I do not have anything to compare this Blue Ray series against, i.e. the previously mentioned DVD offering, however, generally speaking, the quality of the transcription is very good.
Menus are in Spanish and even after selecting "Ingles" (English) as the preferred language, the titles of the episodes remain in Spanish. If your Spanish isn't very good, and mine is not, you may be confused as to which episode you're watching. In my view, this is a minor quibble because I'm overjoyed to have the series on Blue Ray - at a very affordable prices.