Basil Rathbone had already played Holmes in reasonably faithful period adaptations of Doyle’s stories, such as The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), but this was the first of several pictures ...

Though he became known for his starring role in the Sherlock Holmes movies of the 1940s, actor Basil Rathbone enjoyed a varied career for nearly 50 years. This is his story. When Rathbone left ...

A series of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce played Holmes and Dr ...

A series of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce played Holmes and Dr ...

I’d much rather talk about The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ... s going to steal his head and send it to him COD. Mr. Holmes is Basil Rathbone, and after two pictures (the first was the ...

A team of restoration experts are reviving film strips from a silent version of Sherlock Holmes. "Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases" has way more footage than a modern Hollywood movie.

The classic Sherlock Holmes mystery about a huge hound haunting the moors, threatening the heir to Baskerville Hall. Basil Rathbone, Richard Greene. Beryl: Wendy Barrie. Dr. Watson: Nigel Bruce.

The classic 1940s Sherlock Holmes films starred the suave, debonair Basil Rathbone as Holmes; he was contrasted with Nigel Bruce, who played Watson as clumsy, absent-minded, and several steps ...

was Holmes’s first words to Dr Watson (played ... A particularly intriguing story which was used for the inspiration of one of Basil Rathbone’s films, The Pearl of Death in 1944.

The script sets up well that we’ll see these established characters creatively redefined as women, however, this production ...

The Rubin novel is the first Sherlock story to have received ... the Glaswegian actress Mary Gordon in the Basil Rathbone films); references to Holmes’s deerstalker and Inverness cape should ...

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