Sherlock Holmes Pub (1958)
Northumberland St. , London. M, S of several couples dining in a pub restaurant. An elderly waitress is serving dessert. The narrator comments that it would take a lot to put the sober English off their food even the presence of a corpse a couple of feet away. C, U of a respectable woman drinking red wine. M, S of a corner of the restaurant filled with Victorian furniture, test tubes, bottles of chemicals and a corpse a bullet holed decoy bust of Sherlock Holmes. C, U of decoy bust. C, U of Lloyd Taylor s hand placing a cigar case and a curved pipe on an ornately covered table. The items are part of a collection of relics from the famous cases of Holmes housed in the recently renamed Sherlock Holmes Pub (previously the Old Northumberland Arms). M, S of Mr. Taylor, the man responsible for the collection, picking up and reading an old issue of the Pall Mall Gazette. C, U of newspaper in Mr. T. s hands. The newspaper is the Diamond Jubilee edition, dated the 19th of June 1897 and has
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