Hilarious episode. Monkey serum for regeneration was truly a thing for a while in the 19th century. But the prof swinging from tree to tree was not meant to be taken too seriously.
I am madly in love and admiration of Jeremy Brett interpretation and of all the other characters too. Great art production. I am an artist and I am attempting to make a J.B. portrait more than once. Much love and appreciation from the south of Italy
I was assuming they trained gorilla to steal, when they showed the little old man in the tree doing a bad ape impression I nearly fell out of my chair, silly doesn't even begin to explain this outcome, but even with it's ridiculous dilemma, I still love this Holmes and Watson..lol, still laughing, at it, not with it.
This story is in keeping with Dr. Moreau but especially with Jekyll and Hyde, which the Vict. audiences would all know. The ape like man is representation also of the animalistic underside which was suppressed, so it was conceived of in Victorian mentality.
A case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . . I would presume . . I would not call it ridiculous but fanciful and bretts Performance of course is always spot on as the best homes that has ever been captured on film he makes me laugh and cry at the same time knowing he’s not with us any longer to finish the canon 🥺
A lot of complaining in here about it being an inappropriate story. I think it suits the genre. These were meant as engaging entertainment on the train. The average person didn’t know anything about “monkey serum“ or otherwise then. Startling advances were being made in science and biology. After all, Galvani‘s electric frog legs had inspired Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein. Who knew what was possible?
Not only that, the animal man like in Dr. Moreau was simply a figure of the victorian imagination, as well as, not being necessarily ruled out as a possibility in their time. Many things in Holmes reflect the Victorian imagination, which assigned evil to anything, unfortunately foreign, we must forgive them somewhat of this. Like how in the sign of four, and I am no expert: Sikhs are not violent people unless they were in battle, and wouldn't have entered into such a thing I believe? Though not quite sure. Conan Doyle is a fantasist not a realist, and even california was the place of the cult in the Scarlet study. Again Wells gives us another man monster--- which would become the monster movie staple of the 50s, the Morlock.
This certainly isn't one of the best Holmes stories. But I don't believe that it's dreadfully bad either. It's a very "contemporary" tale by the standards of its time. Just consider it in the broader context of "monkey narratives", including The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
OMG as if the monkey suit weren't bad enough.... Though, in it's defense this is definitely one of the fanciful adventures of Holmes like the sign of four, especially as dramatized by these people. Obv. the Isle of Dr. Moreau comes to mind. And also Doyle's desire to write science fiction not detective stories. This story is in keeping with Dr. Moreau but especially with Jekyll and Hyde, which the Vict. audiences would all know. The ape like man is representation also of the animalistic underside which was suppressed, so it was conceived of in Victorian mentality.
I'll admit personally, I'm not that far from ape, take away schooling, training from mom, grooming items and steady food source and how would I live, and smell and appear without shaving or bathing, sheesh.
The tragic story of Jeremy Brett. Not only sick in the end of a serial which began superb with a splendid Mr Brett -- in the end he needed to participate in piles of shit like this.
Kate Robinson Don't be ridiculous. As you see, I am very nice against Jeremy Brett, because it wasn't decent of the producers to put this decent, very skilled actor in a pile of shit like this. "The Creeping Man" is generally held as the worst Sherlock Holmes-story, and that is the reason why it was never filmed before. They do nothing here to improve the story, rather the opposite.
