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Valued exposure: John Cleese

John Cleese as Sherlock Holmes

John Cleese is 70 today. This image shows Cleese as Sherlock Holmes in Elementary My Dear Watson in which Holmes and Watson (played by William Rushton) find Edwardian solutions to some of the problems in 1973. In this shot Holmes and Watson hail a cab in modern Baker Street.

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