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Featured DVD of the Week:
The
Case of the Silk Stocking: A Sherlock Holmes
Mystery
Starring Rupert Everett
$19.98
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November
1903. Fresh from an opium den in London's
East End, Sherlock Holmes relaxes with green
tea and a book on beekeeping, paying no heed
to Dr. Watson's plea for help with a
baffling case. The corpse of a shabbily
dressed young woman has been discovered in
the mud flats of the Thames at low tide.
Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr.
Watson suspects something more and goes to
his old friend Holmes, now retired and at
very loose ends.
The
original screenplay is by Allan Cubitt (Anna
Karenina, Prime Suspect 2), who adapted the
classic Holmes mystery The Hound of the
Baskervilles for Masterpiece Theatre in
2003. This time Cubitt concocts his own tale
of serial murder set in high society to
challenge the wits of the celebrated brain
of Baker Street. Rupert Everett (Shrek 2, An
Ideal Husband, My Best Friend's Wedding)
stars as the sleuth who just can't say no to
the case, with Ian Hart (Finding Neverland,
Hound of the Baskervilles) as Dr.
Watson.
The
cast also includes Helen McCrory (Lucky Jim,
Anna Karenina) as American psychoanalyst
Mrs. Vandeleur, Watson's fiancée and a
budding detective herself, along with Neil
Dudgeon (The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries) as
Inspector Lestrade. At 6 feet 4 inches,
actor Rupert Everett is every inch the image
of the literary Sherlock Holmes, whom Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle placed at "rather
over six feet." Conan Doyle's other
qualifications for Holmes -- "sharp and
piercing" eyes, "hawk-like
nose," and a chin of "prominence
and squareness which marked the man of
determination" -- also check out in the
suave and intensely brooding Everett.
"Every generation should be allowed to
have a go at Sherlock," opines Simon
Cellan Jones, director of this new take on
the detective. "He's
one of those eternal characters, like Hamlet
or Lear, who can bear any number of
interpretations."
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One
Year: 19.95 (reg.24.95)
Two
Years: 34.95 (reg 39.95)
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