who was the best sherlock holmes?

[blairsh]

Razzle Bathbone would be a decent porn name.

Or just Mr Wrathboner

 

[UrbaneFox]

Count Arthur Strong

 

[editor]

 

[ska invita]

right, buying myself a secondhand boxset of that as a christmas present to myself

 

[Part-timah]

Data obvs

 

[Badgers]

Brett for me but Rathbone a close second.

Also a fan of Johnny Lee Miller in the US spin off/adaptation

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Robert Downey Jr or Tom Baker schurely?

 

[Throbbing Angel]

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Also a fan of Johnny Lee Miller in the US spin off/adaptation

Aye

 

[Sprocket.]

Brett for me, though I did enjoy Robert Stephens performance in Billy Wilder’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.

 

[telbert]

right, buying myself a secondhand boxset of that as a christmas present to myself

Could you post how much and where from please? I bought the complete box set about 11/12 years ago for 95 quid and most of the discs are fucked now so need to replace.
Ta

 

[ska invita]

Could you post how much and where from please? I bought the complete box set about 11/12 years ago for 95 quid and most of the discs are fucked now so need to replace.
Ta

on ebay, but please dont bid on the one going for a tenner as thats mine
type "complete sherlock holmes 16 dvd" into ebay. theres a more expensive 32 dvd set that takes up more room

 

[telbert]

on ebay, but please dont bid on the one going for a tenner as thats mine
type "complete sherlock holmes 16 dvd" into ebay. theres a more expensive 32 dvd set that takes up more room

Thanks, I'm gonna have a look now. ( your ones safe).

 

[ska invita]

Thanks, I'm gonna have a look now. ( your ones safe).

good luck!
this ones mine Sherlock Holmes The Complete Collection (DVD, 16-Disc Set) Jeremy Brett | eBay

 

[telbert]

Right, now you've got me started. Two questions. As it appears that the forums favourite holmes are Basil Rathbone closely followed by Jeremy Brett, what story is the best and portrayed by who, an actual production or not?
For me, as a massive JB fan, I would love to see him and Edward Hardwick in A Study in Scarlett. Also toying with the idea of Cumberbatch and Freeman do a " serious" Victorian Holmes and Watson story. Would attempt a poll but I'm bollock deep in shiraz atm.

 

[ska invita]

Right, now you've got me started. Two questions. As it appears that the forums favourite holmes are Basil Rathbone closely followed by Jeremy Brett, what story is the best and portrayed by who, an actual production or not?
For me, as a massive JB fan, I would love to see him and Edward Hardwick in A Study in Scarlett. Also toying with the idea of Cumberbatch and Freeman do a " serious" Victorian Holmes and Watson story. Would attempt a poll but I'm bollock deep in shiraz atm.

theres an election going on you know! will come back to this though

 

[telbert]

theres an election going on you know! will come back to this though

Apologies to all. In my defence, I can only blame the grape.

 

[petee]

am watching The Woman In Green right now, on the teevee ...
... hey, no lestrade ...
... but with abbott and cosello veteran, astoria's own hillary brooke ...
... is that the end of moriarty?

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I thought it was Rathbone until I rewatched the Brett series in one long binge about 10 years ago.

Now i see Rathbone as playing the sherlock many think of as being the most accurate but that may be more because he was playing to (and then became) the stereotype of sherlock. or at least that's my memory of things. I'd have to back to back some movies/episodes after re-reading the stories.

I did a little quick test

Before anything else the 88 (Brett) production feels much better overall from a modern perspective. It does seem to stick closer to the original story while both change things around the 39 version feels very compressed at the start and much more exposition heavy.



The Hound of the Baskervilles/Chapter 1 - Wikisource, the free online library

An initial watching I'm leaning quite havilly to the Brett version of Sherlock. The biggest thing for me so far is I don't actually really buy the 39 Watson and Holmes as being actual friends in the way that the originals were. It almost more feels like a very old and british buddy cop movie.
I must say Brett leans into it a bit being an ACTOR who is ACTING at times. Bigger reactions than Holmes the normally fairly buttoned down person in polite company would do. (His relationship with Watson means that we the audience looking through his eyes get to see more of the inner Holmes)

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Jeremy Brett lived and breathed Sherlock. Absolutely the best.
Rathbone mimicked Sherlock.
Cushing deserves mention as a good Sherlock if a bit stilted. I like
Cumberbatch. He's very good.

But Brett cant be beaten. He is the best...so far.

 

[hash tag]

McKellan was not the best ever Sherlock, but this was a great character.
Mr Holmes: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0735gf4 via @bbciplayer

 

[hash tag]

Currently watching the case of the careless sufregette, filmed 1954. I don't know about the best or worst Sherlock but it's the most ridiculous story with the stupidest names ever.
"I am an anarchist and I believe in nothing" says the bombmaker Boris Turgoff. "Sherlock Holmes" The Case of the Careless Suffragette (TV Episode 1955) - IMDb

 

[DaveCinzano]

Currently watching the case of the careless sufregette, filmed 1954. I don't know about the best or worst Sherlock but it's the most ridiculous story with the stupidest names ever.
"I am an anarchist and I believe in nothing" says the bombmaker Boris Turgoff. "Sherlock Holmes" The Case of the Careless Suffragette (TV Episode 1955) - IMDb

A zealous suffragette acquires a bomb shaped like a croquet ball, intending only to draw attention to her cause, but it is switched with a real croquet ball and explodes, killing a member of Parliament.

Everybody likes a happy ending

 

[JimW]

Vaguely recall reading about a Soviet version that made the actors icons over there.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Not forgetting Andrew Sachs as Watson of course