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On the trail of the cinematic Sherlock Holmes

The LA Times reports that UCLA plans to screen the old Sherlock Holmes classic films.

I like Basil Rathbone in his early films as Holmes, but I was not crazy about Rathbone/Holmes fighting Nazis in the later films. Holmes was out of his time and element in those films.

I was also a big fan of Jeremy Brett as Holmes on PBS’ Mystery!  The series was very faithful to Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories.   

The Times piece did not go into who was the worst Holmes. I would nominate Roger Moore, who played Holmes in a TV movie called Sherlock Holmes in New York. Patrick Macnee played Watson in the film. Moore and the film were truly awful. 

Moore was also the worst James Bond, in my view, although I did like him as the Saint in the 1960’s TV series.

I look forward to seeing the old films on TV again.

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One Response to “On the trail of the cinematic Sherlock Holmes”

  1. Paul, a few years back, when he was still playing the great detective on television, I read in an interview with Jeremy Brett that he held Basil Rathbone’s portrayal of Holmes in high regard – not the stories, really, so much as the character.

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