Basil Rathbone had already played Holmes in reasonably faithful period adaptations of Doyle’s stories, such as The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), but this was the first of several pictures ...
The iconic line first appeared in the 1929 film "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" starring Clive Brook and was later popularised in Basil Rathbone's iconic portrayal of the detective. The ...