Darrow & Darrow is a Hallmark mystery movie and the Sherlock Holmes I'm talking about is the 1954 Sherlock Holmes TV series starring Ronald Howard (son of Leslie Howard) as Sherlock and Howard Marion Crawford as Dr. Watson. I like Leslie Howard's portrayal of Sherlock the best in terms of all the "old" versions of Sherlock on British TV. My husband checked out a DVD from our local library that has a number of the episodes from this TV series and we enjoyed watching them together. For the most part they portrayed Holmes in a very positive manner and some of them were even light hearted.
I had been waiting for some time for the library to have a copy of "Darrow & Darrow" available for me to check out and I was finally rewarded with a DVD to view. This movie has three generations of Darrows - Joanna who is the mom and grandmother who shut down a practice she shared with her husband when he died. Her daughter, Claire, was away at law school and when she graduated, she returned home and reopened the firm while her mother was off making money practicing law in New York. She, too, became widowed and is raising her daughter, Louise, on her own. Since Louise is brilliant (having skipped two grades), raising her presents its own challenges.
When Joanna returns to town in disgrace and wanting to rejoin the firm, family differences are highlighted between Joanna who is always in pursuit of money and Claire who is in pursuit of justice whether she makes money or not. As you might expect, clashes ensue between mother and daughter making Claire's involvement in defending a former felon (and friend) a little more challenging. In the meantime, she finally decides to accept a date with the assistant D. A. after turning him down repeatedly in the past. Life is about to change for all the Darrows! This was another feel good Hallmark movie but the mystery was a little higher quality than some of the others I've viewed. pazt
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