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Murder by Decree is a 1979
1979 in film

The year 1979 in film involved some significant events....
 Anglo-Canadian film involving Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scotland-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
 and Doctor Watson in the case of the serial murderer Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper is an pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England, in late 1888....
. As Holmes investigates London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
's most infamous case, he finds that the Ripper has friends in high places. The film's story of the plot behind the murders is taken from the book Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution by Stephen Knight
Stephen Knight

Stephen Knight was a British author.He is best known for the books Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution and The Brotherhood . Both books suggest there is a secret cabal of Freemasonry running most aspects of British society, and have been criticised for their blatantly Anti-Freemasonry tone....
, though the names of several of the supposedly guilty parties are changed.

The movie was directed by Bob Clark
Bob Clark

Benjamin "Bob" Clark was an United States actor, film director, screenwriter and Film producer best known for directing and writing the script with Jean Shepherd to the 1983 holiday film A Christmas Story....
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Murder by Decree is a 1979
1979 in film

The year 1979 in film involved some significant events....
 Anglo-Canadian film involving Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scotland-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
 and Doctor Watson in the case of the serial murderer Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper is an pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England, in late 1888....
. As Holmes investigates London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
's most infamous case, he finds that the Ripper has friends in high places. The film's story of the plot behind the murders is taken from the book Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution by Stephen Knight
Stephen Knight

Stephen Knight was a British author.He is best known for the books Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution and The Brotherhood . Both books suggest there is a secret cabal of Freemasonry running most aspects of British society, and have been criticised for their blatantly Anti-Freemasonry tone....
, though the names of several of the supposedly guilty parties are changed.

The movie was directed by Bob Clark
Bob Clark

Benjamin "Bob" Clark was an United States actor, film director, screenwriter and Film producer best known for directing and writing the script with Jean Shepherd to the 1983 holiday film A Christmas Story....
. It stars Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, Order of Canada is a Canadian theater, film and television acting. In a career that spans over five decades and includes substantial roles in film, television, and theater, Plummer is perhaps best known for the iconic role of Georg Ludwig von Trapp in The Sound of Music ....
 and James Mason
James Mason

James Neville Mason was a three-time Academy Award-nominated British People actor who attained stardom in both United Kingdom and United States films....
 as Holmes and Watson, respectively, and presents a largely different version of Holmes from the Rathbone
Basil Rathbone

Basil Rathbone, Military Cross , was a South African Republic England actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and of suave villains in such swashbuckler films as The Mark of Zorro , Captain Blood , and The Adventures of Robin Hood ....
 days, with the aesthete still prevailing, yet tinged with a humanity and emotional empathy. James Mason
James Mason

James Neville Mason was a three-time Academy Award-nominated British People actor who attained stardom in both United Kingdom and United States films....
's Dr. Watson is also a departure. Although he may appear at first to resemble the bumbling Nigel Bruce
Nigel Bruce

William Nigel Ernle Bruce , was a United Kingdom character actor on stage and screen, best known as John Watson in a series of films and in the radio series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ....
 version of the character, he soon shows his level head and scientific and medical training to be valuable assets. The supporting cast includes Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland

'Donald McNicol Sutherland',? Order of Canada is a Canada character actor with a film career spanning over 50 years. He is currently working in the American television series, Dirty Sexy Money. Sutherland's most notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, in 1967, and M*A*S*H and Kelly's...
, Susan Clark
Susan Clark

Susan Clark is a Canada actress, known as Katherine Papadapolis in the television situation comedy Webster ....
, John Gielgud
John Gielgud

Sir Arthur John Gielgud, Order of Merit , Companion of Honour was an England actor and singer, particularly known for his warm and expressive voice, which his colleague Alec Guinness likened to "a silver trumpet muffled in silk"....
 and Geneviève Bujold
Geneviève Bujold

Genevi?ve Bujold is an Academy Award-nominated Canada actor....
. Frank Finlay
Frank Finlay

Francis "Frank" Finlay, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom stage, film and television actor....
 plays Inspector Lestrade
Inspector Lestrade

Inspector Lestrade is a fictional character, a Scotland Yard detective appearing in several of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle....
, a part he had previously portrayed in the similar 1965 film A Study in Terror
A Study in Terror

A Study in Terror is a 1965 in film United Kingdom thriller film directed by James Hill and starring John Neville as Sherlock Holmes and Donald Houston as Dr....
.

The film was nominated for 8 Genie Awards
Genie Award

Genie Awards are given out to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. The awards were originally named the Canadian Film Awards which ran from 1949 to 1979 but in 1980 were renamed The Genie Awards....
 in 1980, of which it won 5, including Best Achievement in Direction (Bob Clark), Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Geneviève Bujold) and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Christopher Plummer).

Cast


  • Christopher Plummer
    Christopher Plummer

    Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, Order of Canada is a Canadian theater, film and television acting. In a career that spans over five decades and includes substantial roles in film, television, and theater, Plummer is perhaps best known for the iconic role of Georg Ludwig von Trapp in The Sound of Music ....
     (Sherlock Holmes
    Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scotland-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
    )
  • James Mason
    James Mason

    James Neville Mason was a three-time Academy Award-nominated British People actor who attained stardom in both United Kingdom and United States films....
     (Dr. John Watson)
  • David Hemmings
    David Hemmings

    David Hemmings was an England film actor and film director, whose most famous role was the photographer in Blowup. In his later acting career, he was known for his distinctive eyebrows, and gravelly voice....
     (Inspector Foxborough)
  • Susan Clark
    Susan Clark

    Susan Clark is a Canada actress, known as Katherine Papadapolis in the television situation comedy Webster ....
     (Mary Kelly
    Mary Jane Kelly

    Mary Jane Kelly , also known as Marie Jeanette Kelly, Fair Emma, Ginger and Black Mary, is widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, who killed and mutilated prostitutes in the Whitechapel area of London from late August to early November 1888....
    )
  • Frank Finlay
    Frank Finlay

    Francis "Frank" Finlay, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom stage, film and television actor....
     (Lestrade)
  • Anthony Quayle
    Anthony Quayle

    Sir John Anthony Quayle, Order of the British Empire was an English people actor and Theatre director.He was born in Ainsdale, Southport in Lancashire educated at the private Rugby School and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London....
     (Sir Charles Warren
    Charles Warren

    General Sir Charles Warren, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the Bath, Royal Society was an officer in the British Army Royal Engineers, and in later life was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London Metropolitan Police Service, from 1886 to 1888, during the period of the Jack the Ripper murders....
    )
  • Donald Sutherland
    Donald Sutherland

    'Donald McNicol Sutherland',? Order of Canada is a Canada character actor with a film career spanning over 50 years. He is currently working in the American television series, Dirty Sexy Money. Sutherland's most notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, in 1967, and M*A*S*H and Kelly's...
     (Robert Lees)
  • Geneviève Bujold
    Geneviève Bujold

    Genevi?ve Bujold is an Academy Award-nominated Canada actor....
     (Annie Crook)


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