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Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (2000)

Mystery | 104 minutes
3,35 10 votes

Genre: Mystery

Duration: 104 minuten

Country: United States / United Kingdom

Directed by: Paul Seed

Starst: Ian Richardson, Ian Richardson and Robin Laing

IMDb score: 7,8 (796)

Releasedate: 4 January 2000

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Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes plot

The year is 1878. Nineteen-year-old medical student Arthur Conan Doyle is asked to become an assistant to Edinburgh's most charismatic and unconventional pathologist, Dr Joseph Bell. Together they face all kinds of mysterious crimes. There are also a few female medical students at the university. They are not accepted by everyone. In particular, a group of students led by Gordon Crawford makes it difficult for them. Doyle falls in love with one of them: Elspeth Scott. One evening, Bell and Doyle have to go to a brothel in the old town called Madame Rose's. One of the rooms is covered in blood: on the bed, the walls and the ceiling. But a body is missing

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Sir Henry Carlyle

Thomas Neill

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Zinema (crew films)

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Solid detective.

That Doyle and Bell are replacing Watson and Holmes here is no problem at all. The detective's creator and the observant pathologist are no less captivating for that. The BBC certainly knows how to handle the situation, something that's clearly evident in this atmospheric and solid journey. The ending is unnecessarily messy and almost ludicrous, but it leaves you wanting more.

Good.

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This is the first of five episodes in a miniseries. When Arthur Conan Doyle conceived his brainchild, Sherlock Holmes, he drew inspiration from his former medical professor, Joseph Bell. Bell had a method based on logic and deduction, which contributed to the development of anatomical pathology. Doyle wondered what would happen if a crime fighter were to apply such a method.

In each episode, Bell and Doyle are confronted with a mystery or crime. Ian Richardson brilliantly portrays the doctor with the imperturbable gaze and accent of the British upper class. Doyle is the young student who observes and learns carefully, but still makes mistakes. He is easily captivated by a young woman with a beautiful gaze. He has adapted some of the events into Sherlock Holmes stories (The Cardboard Box, The Speckled Band, The Solitary Cyclist). According to Bell, he focused too much on the anecdotal and not enough on the methodical.

Victorian Edinburgh is beautifully depicted, with carriages, gaslights, top hats, sideburns, scamps, and prostitutes. They encounter various environments, such as an Egyptian museum and a traveling circus. High-ranking figures are put to the test: the incompetent inspector, the self-important quack… It's a remarkably successful crime series with excellent dialogue, suspense, and a misty atmosphere.

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