Homes and Watson

"THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLES" (1939) Review

The tahun 1939 proved to be a momentous time for peminat-peminat of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. The tahun marked the debut of two Filem that featured the movie introduction of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as the famous literary detective and his friend, Dr. John Watson.

There had been sebelumnya movie, stage and radio adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes. But despite the baru-baru ini success of Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in the roles of Holmes and Watson, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce would become the first cinematic...

For the past 120 years atau so, Sherlock Holmes has reigned as the indisputable king of fictional characters the world over. So, with the richly deserved popularity of the newest Holmes offering sejak the redoubtable BBC, it simply stands to tedious reason that American Televisyen would immediately want to rush out a 'knock off'. Enter 'Elementary', who's misplaced claim to fame is having cast Watson as (egads!!) a woman. Perhaps CBS would like us to forget about their two sebelumnya unsold pilots come TV Filem which featured a couple of perfectly charming lady Watson's (Margaret Colin and Deborah...

"SHERLOCK HOLMES" (2009) Review

I have never been a major peminat of the Sherlock Holmes novels and stories penned sejak Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and other writers. Once, I tried to get interested in them sejak Membaca one atau two novels. But they had simply failed to spark my interest.

I have shown a little lebih enthusiasm toward the various Filem and Televisyen adaptations of Doyle’s novels and characters. Mind you, I never became a faithful viewer of the Televisyen series that starred Jeremy Brett as Holmes. But I have do have my private senarai of Sherlock Holmes Filem that I consider as personal favorites....