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It’s the first time in 24 years since a three-sheet poster of this movie was last sold in a Sotheby’s auction. Actors Basil Rathbone, who played Sherlock Holmes, and Nigel Bruce, as Dr. Watson ...
The film was a huge worldwide success, and the beginning of a process which saw the end of Basil Rathbone the Shakesperian star and the beginning of Sherlock Holmes, the action movie hero.
When it comes to setting the scene for a Sherlock Holmes film, it's hard to imagine anyone one-upping the masterful, Oscar-nominated art direction in Guy Ritchie's 2009 take on Arthur ...
No, all 14 Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone were made in Hollywood. Basil Rathbone (1892-1967) was born in Johannesburg, South Africa , to British parents.
Features Sherlock Holmes: celebrating Rathbone & Bruce’s top 5 films. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce's Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson laid down a terrific on-screen template.
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 ...
The Hound Of The Baskervilles (1939). When we think of Sherlock Holmes, the image that tends to come to mind is Basil Rathbone: the hat, the pipe, the capelet, with Watson as a slightly drunk ...
The film was a huge worldwide success, and the beginning of a process which saw the end of Basil Rathbone the Shakesperian star and the beginning of Sherlock Holmes, the action movie hero.
British actor Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes The Hound of the Baskervilles (Getty) By. Amanda Killelea; 19:08, 1 Aug 2020 Updated 14:51, 3 Aug 2020; ...