A Study in Terror (1965) on Netflix
NR19651h 35mCrimeMysteryThriller
Jack the Ripper is killing women in London. A parcel of surgical instruments with the scalpel missing brings Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to the Duke of Shires, whose son has vanished.
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Plot summary
The Whitechapel killings reach Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in the form of a parcel holding surgical instruments, with the scalpel gone. A family crest on the case leads them to the Duke of Shires, whose elder son, Michael Osborne, had hoped to become a doctor. The Duke's younger son, Edward, Lord Carfax, says Michael has vanished. The pawnbroker Joseph Beck remembers an Angela Osborne leaving the instruments with him and giving the address of a soup kitchen run by Doctor Murray. Inspector Lestrade lets the pair view the body of the latest victim, and Holmes, while Watson makes a fuss at the soup kitchen, follows Murray's niece, Sally, to a meeting with Carfax.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Study in Terror (1965)
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- Producer Herman Cohen had to direct the fire sequence himself because director James Hill went missing during filming; Cohen said Hill had a habit of disappearing.
- The idea of teaming Sherlock Holmes with Jack the Ripper came from Donald and Derek Ford, who wrote the first draft, but producer Herman Cohen disliked it and had Harry Craig rewrite it.
- A Study in Terror, which premiered at London's Leicester Square Theatre on 4 November 1965, was the first film to feature Mycroft Holmes.
