Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Start Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Red Barn Theatre
Category: Saugatuck & Douglas Events
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The Red Barn Theater’s film series continues with 1979's “Murder by Decree,” featuring Christopher Plummer as Sherlock Holmes and James Mason as Doctor Watson in one of the most successful film continuations of the Holmes legend as the great detective takes on the mystery of Jack the Ripper. Director/Producer Bob Clark pulled out all the stops in providing a superb cast and superlative production values that make viewers believe they actually are in 1888 London.
The story makes full use of historical details surrounding tthe Ripper and his possible connection to the highest society, right up to the royal family.
Plummer and Mason clearly respect each other; Holmes is no unemotional machine and Watson is not a buffoon. Plummer makes the deerstalker cap and Meerschaum pipe as natural as breathing. He takes Holmes into undiscovered realms as the horror of the Ripper’s psychology grips him and Watson.
The rest of the cast is equally adept. Frank Finlay is Inspector Lestrade, David Hemmings is a policeman with a dark secret, Anthony Quayle is the police commissioner who tries to prevent Holmes’s involvement, and John Gielgud portrays a prime minister with cold political steel for a spine. Donald Sutherland appears as a psychic who claims to “see” the Ripper.
Susan Clark is moving as a prostitute who knows too much, and Genevieve Bujold is the woman in the asylum whose tragedy is at the heart of the mystery.
Join host John Hardy at 6:30 p.m. in front of The Big Screen at The Red Barn, 3657 63rd St. at Blue Star Hwy., Saugatuck, about a quarter mile east of Exit 41 off of I-196. Suggested donation is $5. Free popcorn from CNJ Popcorn Co. and $1 concessions. Call (269) 857-5300 for more information email lakeshorearts@comcast.net
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Red Barn Theatre
63RD & Blue Star Hwy.
Saugatuck Mi 49453
Location Phone: 269-857-5300
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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