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Post by Pippen on Jan 27, 2024 14:08:56 GMT
An all purpose place to post about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in films, television and (unseen) on radio. (This space reserved for group photo of the Dr. Watsons)
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 27, 2024 17:31:58 GMT
Sherlock Holmes Baffled (1900). Not copyrighted until 1903 which sometimes causes confusion. Sherlock Holmes first moving picture appearance was in this important, almost one minute piece of the earliest film history. Filmed by the Biograph Company for the Mutascope, a kind of peep show machine that worked much like a flip book, Sherlock catches a burglar who vanishes then reappears somewhere else with his bag of swag which also does a disappearing act. Georges Méliès had invented this technique just a few years earlier.
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Post by Pippen on Jan 27, 2024 17:49:30 GMT
mikef6What a great start for the thread. Had never seen that Holmes before ! I remember penny machines in Coney Island with those "flip book" type films for general "family" consumption !
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Post by Teleadm on Jan 27, 2024 18:54:47 GMT
![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYWI3ZGE3MzgtZDViMy00ZmZhLThhOTYtYTE2OTAxMGI5YjMxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTMyMjYwNTA@._V1_.jpg) Stewart Granger's take on Sherlock with Bernard Fox as Dr Watson in a TV version of The Hound of the Baskervilles 1972. It didn't get good reviews.
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Post by politicidal1 on Jan 27, 2024 18:55:28 GMT
![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYWI3ZGE3MzgtZDViMy00ZmZhLThhOTYtYTE2OTAxMGI5YjMxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTMyMjYwNTA@._V1_.jpg) Stewart Granger's take on Sherlock with Bernard Fox as Dr Watson in a TV version of The Hound of the Baskervilles 1972. It didn't get good reviews. Hadn’t even heard of this iteration.
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Post by Teleadm on Jan 27, 2024 19:11:30 GMT
![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZTU5NTVkY2EtMjdkOS00ZGI5LTgyNTQtOTg4YTc4YWNhZWQ1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTMyMjYwNTA@._V1_.jpg) Charlton Heston as Sherlock and with Richard Johnson as Dr Watson in TV version of The Crucifier of Blood 1991, based on a play with Heston reprising a role he played ten years earlier at a Los Angeles theatre.
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 27, 2024 19:38:06 GMT
![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZTU5NTVkY2EtMjdkOS00ZGI5LTgyNTQtOTg4YTc4YWNhZWQ1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTMyMjYwNTA@._V1_.jpg) Charlton Heston as Sherlock and with Richard Johnson as Dr Watson in TV version of The Crucifier of Blood 1991, based on a play with Heston reprising a role he played ten years earlier at a Los Angeles theatre. I have seen The Crucifier of Blood on stage (but not with Heston, alas). Most of the plot is derived from Doyle's "The Sign Of Four" but with a changed ending. Didn't really care for it but it is better than no Holmes at all.
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Post by Teleadm on Jan 27, 2024 20:25:33 GMT
A bit of a sidestep... Baker Street 1965 a Broadway musical that runned for 311 performances. I had it on vinyl once, but sold it in a package with other vinyls. I liked one early song of the play "It's So Simple".
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Post by Pippen on Jan 27, 2024 21:24:35 GMT
Teleadm ... re: your "A bit of a sidestep" ... live performances are a great addition ! Seeing that album brings back memories ... I saw this show in Previews ... have the playbill and ticket stub but don't seem the have bought the album. ![](https://assets.playbill.com/playbill-covers/3ecb920b62a362a41cf37dd2ac80f2b4-baker-street-playbill-1965-09-web.jpg) ![](https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/images/9/9f/1965-baker-street-musical-16.jpg)
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Post by jervistetch on Jan 27, 2024 22:22:25 GMT
Apparently, Sherlock has a teen sister. ![](https://cdn.traileraddict.com/content/netflix/enola-holmes-poster.jpg)
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 27, 2024 22:43:18 GMT
Robert Downey Jr. & Jude Law played Sherlock Holmes and John Watson in the two Guy Ritchie films Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011). ![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/98/4e/01/984e01c790c4607457e6fd23ea98040a.jpg) Meanwhile, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman portrayed the roles in a 'modern' setting in the BBC TV series Sherlock. ![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/66/b1/09/66b109ae66a74649ff282f004197757f.png) Then a US version of that^ show was made called Elementary starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu in the roles. ![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/35/c3/83/35c3835a32a2f81cae29a29c277f8562.jpg)
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Post by Pippen on Jan 28, 2024 0:04:15 GMT
Christopher Lee played Holmes in a couple of Made for TV Movies which were intended to be a series but became only a pair. Patrick Macnee appeared as Watson Incident at Victoria Falls ![](https://www.justwatch.com/images/backdrop/8991259/s1440/sherlock-holmes-incident-at-victoria-falls) Claude Akins portrayed President Theodore Roosevelt ![](https://www.imfdb.org/images/6/67/ShHIaVF-WebleyMkVI-3.jpg) and Sherlock Holmes and The Leading Lady Morgan Fairchild as Irene Adler (aka " the woman" or "THE woman" depending on the actor's interpretation of the words).
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Post by Pippen on Jan 28, 2024 4:21:26 GMT
Television series ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OX7n0f3UAzI/0.jpg) Ronald Howard ... Sherlock Holmes (39 episodes, 1954-1955) Howard Marion-Crawford ...Dr. John H. Watson Ronald Howard is the son of Leslie Howard and is no relation to Opie Taylor. The episodes are less tha 30 minutes each and as a result, stories are a bit condensed but they are pretty well made and a quick lunchtime watch. Available in many dvd sets along with some later feature length Holmes films.
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Post by Pippen on Jan 28, 2024 4:22:18 GMT
An assortment of Televised Holmes ![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ff/9d/2c/ff9d2c17dfeed4ac809efc6a3c733043.jpg) IDs (From top left) Alan Napier, John Longden, Alan Wheatley, Ronald Howard,
Douglas Wilmer, Stewart Granger, Roger Moore, Geoffrey Whitehead,
Frank Langella, Tom Baker, Guy Henry, Ian Richardson
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 29, 2024 19:56:06 GMT
Great thread, Pippen! My favorite Holmes, conventionally but truly, is Brett, though I love many of them (Rathbone, notably, being my first Holmes). I’ve been watching a fair amount of Holmesian material recently—a bunch of the Brett episodes with which I’m less familiar (the “Musgrave Ritual” and “Second Stain” adaptations are excellent, the “Devil’s Foot” OK, the “Resident Patient” and “Abbey Grange” a bit disappointing), as well as the 1983 and 2002 Hounds of the Baskervilles. The ’83, as I wrote in the non-sequitur thread, is pretty lousy despite having a seemingly good fit for Holmes, Ian Richardson: Not only is it for all intents and purposes an uncredited remake of the far superior Rathbone film, but also Richardson’s Holmes is so nice and so normal that he actually comes across as a bit boring! The ’02 is odd because its Holmes and Watson seem to dislike each other—with Richard Roxburgh (who’s blond, not particularly tall or lean, and failing to disguise his Australian accent) extremely miscast as Holmes. It has some OK things in it, and it’s a little interesting because it prefigures the Robert Downey Jr. Holmeses in some ways (not that that’s necessarily a good thing), but it strangely misconceives its main characters. Anyone interested in posting a Top 10 list of favorite Holmes movies/episodes? Here is my attempt at one, definitely subject to change: 1. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) 2. “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1984, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) 3. The Scarlet Claw (1944) 4. “The Musgrave Ritual” (1986, The Return of Sherlock Holmes) 5. Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) 6. The House of Fear (1945) 7. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) 8. The Great Mouse Detective (1986) 9. “The Final Problem” (1985, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) 10. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) Welp, that list is mostly just Brett and Rathbone, but so be it.
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