The Master Blackmailer
- Episode aired May 6, 1993
- TV-PG
- 1h 42m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
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Holmes and Watson attempt to break the grip of a ruthless blackmailer of their clients.Holmes and Watson attempt to break the grip of a ruthless blackmailer of their clients.Holmes and Watson attempt to break the grip of a ruthless blackmailer of their clients.
Gwen Ffrangcon Davies
- The Dowager
- (as Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies)
Henrietta Whitsun-Jones
- Daphne
- (as Henrietta Whitson-Jones)
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- TriviaGwen Ffrangcon Davies, who played the Dowager, was 100 years old when this was filmed in 1991. She died the same month it premiered, having turned 101.
- GoofsA Scotland Yard police detective is seen picking up a discarded weapon with a handkerchief which was not a common practice in 1894, when the film was set. Fingerprint detection was not adopted in Britain until 1901, if that was his reason. Actually, the gun was covered in blood and the policeman would seem to desire keeping his hands clean of blood.
- Quotes
Sherlock Holmes: I've had to deal with fifty murderers in my career, but the worst of them never gave me this sense of revulsion I feel at this moment toward Mr Charles Augustus Milverton.
- ConnectionsFollowed by The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: The Last Vampyre (1993)
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Compelling story but was justice done at the end?
As someone who has watched every single episode of Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes, this one does not fall short in its appeal. I only find fault in one thing which is why I am compelled to write this review. The blackmailer gets his just deserves as is typical in all blackmail stories. But what about the people who enabled him to perform his monstrous acts - the lovers, the valets, the ladies maids - who ruined the lives of their significant others and employers with no thought to anything but the money they received? Is that fair?
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- tadvanapetendree
- Dec 12, 2020
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