It is 1894 & Sherlock Holmes is called to a Covent Garden art gallery where dozens of patrons lie dead before a painting of the Undying Man Holmes & Watson are soon on the trail of a mysterious figure in black whose astounding speed & agility make capture impossible The same suspect is then implicated in another murder when the servant of a visiting Russian grand duke is found terribly mutilated in a notorious slum But what links the two crimes & do they have anything to do with the suicide of an unpopular schoolteacher at a remote boarding school? So begins a case that will reveal the dark shadows that past misdeeds can cast & test the companions to their limits ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play For many people Basil Rathbone&s portrayal of the iconic detective Sherlock Holmes is the definitive screen version of Arthur Conan Doyle&s much-loved character Sherlock Holmes & the Spider Woman (1944) In wartime Britain Sherlock Holmes fakes his own death in order to investigate a spate of "pyjama suicides" His suspicions soon fall on the attractive but possibly deadly Andrea Spedding Sherlock Holmes & the Pearl of Death (1944) A cursed pearl is stolen from a museum & Holmes gets on the case encountering a series of brutal murders along the way & a mysterious giant known as the Creeper Actors Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce Director Roy William Neill Certificate PGYear 1944 Languages English
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It is 1894 & the news of a Transylvanian nobleman's death at the hands of a certain Professor Van Helsing is the talk of London Unsatisfied at the acquittal of the professor Mycroft Holmes asks Sherlock to investigate what truly led to the deaths of Lucy Westenra & the mysterious aristocrat The newspapers are full of inconsistencies & wild supernatural theories & as Holmes digs deeper he suspects that those hailed as heroes are not what they seem The clues point to an innocent man framed & murdered for crimes he did not commit & Holmes & Watson find themselves targeted at every turn as what began as a quest to clear one man's name reveals a conspiracy that draws them to the mountains of Transylvania & the infamous Castle Dracula ...

A mysterious Catholic priest arrives at 221B Baker Street only to utter the words 'if corpe' before dropping dead Though the man's death is attributed to cholera when news of a similar case reaches Holmes he is convinced that the priests have been poisoned He & Watson learn that the men were on a mission from the Vatican to investigate a miracle; but surely no miracle could lead to murder? ...

Holmes & Watson find themselves bombarded with an absolute avalanche of dramatic cases! Holmes enrols Inspectors Lestrade & Bradstreet to help him play a dangerous four handed game against an organisation whose power & influence seems to know no bounds As dissimilar as each case seems to be robbery assault & gruesome murder Holmes begins to suspect that each one has been meticulously designed to lure him towards a conclusion that even he could not have anticipated However when his brother Mycroft goes missing he realises that he might just be running out of time ...

Man vs Machineit is 1895 & Sherlock Holmes is settling back into life as a consulting detective at 221B Baker Street when he & Watson learn of strange goings-on amidst the dreaming spires of Oxford A Professor Quantock has built a wondrous computational device which he claims is capable of analytical thought to rival the cleverest men alive Naturally Sherlock Holmes cannot ignore this challenge He & Watson travel to Oxford where a battle of wits ensues between the great detective & his mechanical counterpart as they compete to see which of them can be first to solve a series of crimes from a bloody murder to a missing athlete But as man & machine vie for supremacy it becomes clear that the Thinking Engine has its own agenda ...

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Robert Downey Jr & Jude Law reprise their roles as Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson in Guy Ritchie&s second adaptation of the classic Arthur Conan Doyle detective novels When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan) pronounces suicide as the cause of death But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been murdered
- & is soon untangling an international web of intrigue in which all threads appear to lead to criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris) The supporting cast

Includes:: Stephen Fry Kelly Reilly Geraldine James & Noomi Rapace


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Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play Please note the UV copy is only compatible in participating regions please visit the UV website for full details Robert Downey Jr reprises his role as the world&s most famous detective Sherlock Holmes & Jude Law returns as his friend & colleague Dr Watson in Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the roomuntil now There is a new criminal mastermind at large-Professor James Moriarty (Jared Harris)-and not only is he Holmes& intellectual equal but his capacity for evil coupled with a complete lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the renowned detective Around the globe headlines break the news a scandal takes down an Indian cotton tycoon; a Chinese opium trader dies of an apparent overdose; bombings in Strasbourg & Vienna; the death of an American steel magnate No one sees the connective thread between these seemingly random events-no one that is except the great Sherlock Holmes who has discerned a deliberate web of death & destruction At its center sits a singularly sinister spider Moriarty Holmes& investigation into Moriarty&s plot becomes more dangerous as it leads him & Watson out of London to France Germany & finally Switzerland But the cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead & moving perilously close to completing his ominous plan If he succeeds it will not only bring him immense wealth & power but alter the course of history Actors Robert Downey Jr Noomi Rapace Jude Law Stephen Fry Kelly Reilly Jared Harris Geraldine James William Houston Gilles Lellouche Dominic Kinnaird Christian Wolf-La& Moy Carsten Hayes Roman Jankovic & Thorston Manderlay Director Guy Ritchie Certificate 12 years & over Year 2011 Screen 2401 Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio (51) Additional Languages English Audio Description ; Castilian Spanish ; Japanese ; Italian ; French Subtitles English for the hearng impaired ; Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; Icelandic ; Italian for the hearing impaired ; Japanese ; Norwegian ; Castilian Spanish ; Swedish ; French Closed Captions Yes Duration 2 hours & 8 minutes (approx)
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The great Victorian detective returns in this action thriller directed by Guy Ritchie & starring Robert Downey Jr (in a Golden Globe-winning performance) Jude Law Rachel Mc Adams & Mark Strong Based on a new story by producer Lionel Wigram using Arthur Conan Doyle&s famous characters the film follows Sherlock Holmes (Downey Jr) & his loyal assistant Dr Watson (Law) as they deal with a mysterious new nemesis Lord Blackwood (Strong) a cult leader & Satanist who harbours the most deadly of intentions Abandoning the accepted portrayals of Holmes & Watson as perfected by Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce in the films of the 1930s & &40s Downey Jr&s Holmes is a modern bohemian man of action & intellect while Law&s Watson is no longer the bumbling fool of old but a much sharper character with an eye for the ladies & a taste for gambling ...