British actor Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes The Hound of the Baskervilles (Getty) By Amanda Killelea 19:08, 1 Aug 2020Updated14:51, 3 Aug 2020 ...

The iconic image of Holmes in a deerstalker was cemented in the series of 14 films released between 1939 and 1946 featuring British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson ...

2. Rampant Smoking Various Books The archetypal image of Sherlock Holmes, as portrayed on screen by Basil Rathbone, is of a tall man in a deerstalker hat, smoking a pipe whilst holding a ...

Sherlock Holmes as a smelly man of actionAmong the supporting cast, Eddie Marsan's truculent Inspector Lestrade is amusing, but most characters exist only in snippets between the action sequences ...

Sherlock Holmes was due a cinematic makeover. Conan Doyle's stories reign supreme but their screen versions have been struggling to throw off a bourgeois tweediness that harks back to Basil ...