Here's a very rare edition of the 6 Part German Sherlock Holmes series from 1967. Das gefleckte Band (1 october 1967) The Speckled Band.
Eric Schellow Germany's Sherlock Homes
the 1967/8 German Sherlock Holmes series starring Eric Schellow as Holmes and Paul Edwin Roth as Dr Watson. Apparently these 6 black and white (between one hour five minute and slightly under an hour in duration ) programmes used the translated scripts from the 1964 Douglas Wilmer series and appear to have been made on video.
I am not a German speaker, but being so familiar with these stories it isn't too difficult to work out what is being said, and these programmes look to be some of the best productions of the Sherlock Holmes stories I have seen - The Speckled Band - The Beryl Coronet - The Copper Beeches - The Six Napoleons - The Red Headed League - The Bruce Partington Plans.
A German Contributor to the excellent Scarlet Street Sherlock Holmes forum wrote this in response to my request for information from German speakers..
Erich Schellow and Paul Edwin Roth were both marvellous stage actors who took their roles with gusto and enthusiasm. However, the director's main interest was to show Holmes as an "Anti-James Bond", without most of Holmes' eccentricities (Schellow wanted to play him drug-addicted, but director Paul May wanted Holmes "clean" in every way). Mrs. Hudson and a few other characters were just played for cheap laughs, which is a pity. Also, the narrative was quite slow. But I like the series, although it could have been much better.
Holmes' deerstalker hat - or the costume designer's idea of it - was rather grotesque, of course.
P.S.: The German Holmes Society, Von Herder Airguns Ltd., published a booklet on the series in 1995, commemorating Schellow's 80. birthday. The title was Schellow Holmes. It's still available via Michael Ross' Baskerville Bcher...............
Deutsche Erstausstrahlung: 01.10.1967 ARD
Alternativtitel: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
6 tlg. dt. Krimiserie nach den Büchern von Arthur Conan Doyle, Regie: Paul May.
Sherlock Holmes (Erich Schellow) und Dr. Watson (Paul Edwin Roth) ermitteln. Sie werden unterstützt von der Haushälterin Mrs. Hudson (Manja Kafka). Meist auf der falschen Fährte ist Inspektor Lestrade (Hans Schellbach).
Adaption von britischen Fernsehspielen. Der WDR ließ einfach die Drehbücher der BBC übersetzen, ähnlich wie es bei den Durbridge-Krimis üblich und erfolgreich war. Kein Wunder, das Team hinter den Kulissen war bei Doyle fast dasselbe wie bei den meisten Durbridge-Krimis, von der Übersetzerin Marianne de Barde bis zum Regisseur.
Die Schwarz-Weiß-Folgen liefen sonntags nachmittags. (aus dem Fernsehlexikon von Michael Reufsteck und Stefan Niggemeier)
15 сен 2024
