Janice Beard: 45 WPM 1999 N/R, 78 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Clare Kilner Cast: Eileen Walsh, Patsy Kensit, Rhys Ifans, Sandra Voe, David O'Hara, Frances Gray, Zita Sattar, Amelia Curtis, Mossie Smith, Sarah McVicar
Janice Beard (Eileen Walsh) has used her active imagination to dream up tall tales, which she hoped would lure her agoraphobic mother (Sandra Voe) to venture outside their home. That ploy failed, and now Janice has moved out and found a job with an auto motor firm where her stories may again be employed to ward off an espionage crisis at work.
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The Master Blackmailer 1992 TV, 100 min. Genre: Mystery
Director: Peter Hammond Cast: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Robert Hardy, Norma West, Gwen Ffrangcon Davies, Colin Jeavons, Nickolas Grace, Serena Gordon, David Mallinson, Sarah McVicar
Based on Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverto," this made-for-TV offering brings Jeremy Brett back as master sleuth Sherlock Holmes. Art dealer Milverto (Robert Hardy) is also a master blackmailer who has high society Londoners under his control. Sherlock Holmes goes undercover as a plumber to get the goods on Mr. Milverto. Faithful to Doyle's story with some additional, but unnecessary, material added.
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| 1. Janice Beard: 45 WPM (1999)
2. The Master Blackmailer (1992)
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