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. The next picture The Adventure of Sherlock ...

His lushly appointed "Sherlock Holmes" -- which will spawn a sequel around Christmas -- was a gorgeous visual work of art, and a pretty solid bit of fun, to boot. Basil Rathbone, left, starred as ...

Rex Features Peter Cushing in the 1959 version of "The Hound of the Baskervilles"Picture: Rex Features Credit: Rex Features Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in the 1940's. For many fans ...

QUESTION Were any of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock ... Pictures picked it up and made 12 low-budget films at their own studios. The Universal versions played fast and loose with the Holmes stories ...

Actor Basil Rathbone, whose roles ... but his greatest fame came from his motion picture portrayals of the fictional British detective, Holmes. He made 16 Sherlock Holmes films between 1939 ...

Sherlock Holmes has been around for a long time. He made his first literary appearance in 1887 and his first leading role in a cinematic medium took place in 1900 in Mutoscope, a coin-in-the-slot ...

That would certainly explain the industry's affinity for Sherlock Holmes, a rare example of intellectual property with a fully established universe, characters, and story beats that is (for the ...

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. The next picture The Adventure of Sherlock ...

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