Review: Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
Loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Valley of Fear , Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Lee) and Dr. Watson (Thorley Walters) are convinced that the dastardly criminal Moriarty (Hans Söhnker) is up to no good, stealing a priceless necklace supposedly worn by Cleopatra. Scotland Yard however, are more annoyed with Holmes’ apparent grudge/bias against the master criminal genius, whom they see as a respectable member of society. Undeterred, the world’s greatest detective and his assistant set about trying to prove their suspicions. Christopher Lee managed to play several different characters in the filmed versions of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series. He was a perfectly dashing, gentlemanly Sir Henry Baskerville to Peter Cushing’s Sherlock in Hammer’s version of “The Hound of the Baskervilles” , and also played a very serious Mycroft Holmes in Billy Wilder’s underrated “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes” . Less-known is that he also played Sherlock Holmes himself at least th