| The Limejuice Mystery or Who Spat in Grandfather's Porridge? | |
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| Directed by | Jack Harrison |
| Produced by | Joseph Seiden |
| Music by | Philip Braham |
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Running time | 9 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Limejuice Mystery or Who Spat in Grandfather's Porridge? is a 1930 British marionette short film directed by Jack Harrison.
The film begins in a Chinese opium den, where a woman is forced to dance. The customers begin to dance along and play musical instruments. In their inebriation, they begin a fight, and one of them pulls out a gun, proceeding to kill almost everyone. The police are called in. Herlock Sholmes (a parody of Sherlock Holmes) is called to solve a murder mystery at a bar.
Thomas Leitch wrote: "In The Limejuice Mystery, or Who Spat in Grandfather's Porridge? (1930) Herlock Sholmes, though like the rest of the cast only a puppet, is again easily identified by his violin playing, his drug use, his outrageous disguises, his deerstalker and cape, his magnifying glass, and his triumph over a row of police officers in puppet lockstep." [1]
The film is included on the DVD Sherlock Holmes: The Archive Collection (2010). [2]
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