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Ferox13
11-05-2009, 03:22 PM
Ok the new film is coming out with Guy Richie's version of a Holmes film which is looking a bit like 'Pirates of Baker St' or some other action adventure..
Who else likes these 'dry cocaine fueled' detective tales?
Who was ya fave?
Jeremy Brett?
Peter Cushing?
Chrish Lee?
Tom Baker?
Doc Faustus
11-05-2009, 03:34 PM
Jeremy Brett. Because of the dreadful misuse of the character I pitched a sexually explicit Bizarro romance novel starring Holmes, but it was justly rejected. It's America's loss that they don't get to read Sherlock Holmes in Return to Rape Cove.
Ferox13
11-05-2009, 03:38 PM
I don't even want to ask.....
But cocaine is a hell of a drug even at a 7% solution...
Doc Faustus
11-05-2009, 03:41 PM
It's an amazing thing to be in a room with ten Bizarro authors all looking at you like you've grown another head.
_____V_____
11-05-2009, 05:31 PM
Big fan. Have all the books hardbound and also in special original newspaper reprint editions by Wordsworth Classics.
Watched all the Brett episodes and I thought he was quite perfect. Hound of the Baskervilles was pretty good too. Really looking forward to see Ritchie-Downey Jr's take on Holmes.
neverending
11-05-2009, 07:30 PM
How can you not even mention Rathbone? He personifies the part, though I did really like Jeremy Brett & Nicole Williamson.
_____V_____
11-05-2009, 08:04 PM
Oh yes how could I forget! Basil Rathbone was probably the best, with Brett a close second IMO.
On a side note, Nigel Bruce was pretty competent for a flawed Watson.
ManchestrMorgue
11-05-2009, 10:22 PM
I am currently reading through all the Sherlock Holmes (Conan Doyle) books. Currently reading The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
I love these books. I read them all as a child, but recently had the urge to read them again. They are still as brilliant as I remembered.
I am another Rathbone/Bruce fan. Those movies were also favourites during childhood.
Ferox13
11-06-2009, 01:19 AM
I do love Rathbone as Holmes but I think he lacked the manic depressive nature that was such a big part of the Doyle Character. Nigel Bruce did give us Petri Wine though..
I do quite liek the Ronald Howard series too:
http://www.mastromarcopugacioff.it/Articoli/SanDie/HolmesRonald_Howard.jpg
I'd like to see that Chines Kung fu film with Holmes in it (though it look dreadful)
hammerfan
11-06-2009, 04:03 AM
How can you not even mention Rathbone? He personifies the part,
Thank you! I was reading from the beginning and couldn't believe no one had mentioned him. He's my favorite Sherlock!
phantomstranger
11-06-2009, 09:42 AM
I'm a devoted Holmes fan. I ve read all the original stories as well as several books by different authors, as for the films. Jermy Brett was the best with Rathbone a very close second.
roshiq
11-07-2009, 05:57 AM
Favorite actor as Holmes: Of course Jeremy Brett. He is the best.
Always been a great fan of Holmes. Read all the originals of Doyle but none from the other authors. Haven't seen any of Rathbone films but few months back bought a DVD set containing 10 of his major films. Hope soon start to watch them one by one. My brother & I used to watch Brett's Granada TV series regularly on TV; even few years back we rent & watch the whole series again from local British Council Library. And lately again bought the whole series as soon as it finally get available at our local DVD shops. I'm grateful to my friends here who helped me with the illustrations & movie stills for my half page long article on Sherlock Holmes in a national newspaper that I wrote in my early high school days.:)
Ferox13
11-08-2009, 12:24 AM
I just managed to pick up the entire Brett series for just over #30 :-)
I do think every one is wrong about the best Holmes as the answer is obviously ROGER MOORE:
http://cdn2.ioffer.com/img/item/116/653/171/o_oHyrNc9r0RkkKqf.jpg
roshiq
11-08-2009, 12:38 AM
What? Moor also played Holmes!?! I didn't know that.:)
What's the title of that film...The Sign of Seven...(007)?
Anyway, I think Robert Stephens also did a credible job in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970).
_____V_____
11-08-2009, 01:40 AM
What? Moor also played Holmes!?! I didn't know that.:)
What's the title of that film...The Sign of Seven...(007)?
Sherlock Holmes in New York.
Moore played a pretty competent Holmes. His take on Clouseau in one of the Pink Panther films was also pretty good.
Ferox13
11-09-2009, 04:29 AM
Tom Baker also played a decent Holmes in a version of the Hound of the Baskervilles (he was a little less manic than I expected though):
http://kulturschnitte.de/Sherlock/Bilder/Schauspieler/Tom-Baker.jpg
I'm a big fan of the Russian Sherlock Holmes Series too:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51578G3XjzL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
Doc Faustus
11-10-2009, 01:51 PM
Worst Holmes ever was Matt Frewer.
Ferox13
11-10-2009, 01:56 PM
Yeah I have a few of his version (4 I think)..
Has any one seen Edward Woodward play him in Hands of a Murderer?
urgeok2
11-13-2009, 09:56 AM
christopher plummer is my favorite holmes.(murder by decree)
2 of ther favorite holmes flavoured flicks are :
- they might be giants
- without a clue
i religiously collect 2 types of literature .. anything about the arthurian legends, and anything involving sherlock holmes.
Ferox13
11-13-2009, 11:42 AM
i religiously collect 2 types of literature .. anything about the arthurian legends, and anything involving sherlock holmes.
Have u seen Shadows over Baker st - its a collection of Holmes stories involving the Cthulhu mythos - its a mixed bag but some of it is pretty good.
meh.....you guys can have Sherlock....I'll take his smarter brother, Sigerson.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/060322/11448__gwilder_l.jpg
urgeok2
11-13-2009, 12:02 PM
Have u seen Shadows over Baker st - its a collection of Holmes stories involving the Cthulhu mythos - its a mixed bag but some of it is pretty good.
no i havent - but it sounds like something i'd like.
Ferox13
11-13-2009, 02:06 PM
meh.....you guys can have Sherlock....I'll take his smarter brother, Sigerson.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/060322/11448__gwilder_l.jpg
Actually in the canon he does give his brother Mycroft credit for being smarter..
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZJGhZzP6t7Q/RePGW7bPIDI/AAAAAAAABEs/26boFBmuXI4/s400/SherlockMycroft_JPG.jpg
http://www.filmdope.com/Gallery/ActorsL/10103-15269.gif
Clean, Shaven
11-17-2009, 09:23 AM
meh.....you guys can have Sherlock....I'll take his smarter brother, Sigerson.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/060322/11448__gwilder_l.jpg
Hehehe, great movie.
Anyway, I consider Jeremy Brett to be the only Holmes. Man with the Twisted Lip is my all time favorite story. It's almost like a Sufi parable.
phantomstranger
12-17-2009, 02:59 PM
Here's a great site for Holmes fans:
http://221bakerstreet.org/