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There’s an excellent supporting cast including Wendy Barrie (the sometime girlfriend in the concurrent Saint mystery series, who got third billing ahead of Bruce), with Lionel Atwill and John Carradine - who like Rathbone alternated between horror movies and straight dramas - as the most prominent red herrings.
There’s enough Rathbone to show the hawk-nosed actor was ideal casting as the violin-playing detective and Bruce an ideal foil (if not exactly Doyle’s concept of the character).
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Rathbone is off screen for a good part of this reasonably faithful Arthur Conan Doyle adaptation (by Ernest Pascal) which builds up the part of the threatened heir Henry Baskerville, played by 21-year-old rising Fox star Richard Greene, best remembered today for the title role in the 1955-60 TV series “Robin Hood.” Rathbone and Bruce did not even get top billing in their inaugural Fox entry, “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” intended as a one-off release when it came out in March 1939. Zanuck or producer Gene Markey came up with the idea of casting the South African-born Rathbone - primarily known for villanious roles at the time, though he had played suave contemporary sleuth Philo Vance back in 1930’s “The Dragon Murder Case” - and Nigel Bruce, a veteran British character actor specializing in middle-aged bumblers (he was actually two years younger than Rathbone) most famous for his role in “Suspicion.” There is some debate over whether Fox studio chief Darryl F.
The high-definition transfers especially highlight the ways the films changed when they moved from Twentieth-Century Fox (where the first two were made in 1939) to Universal (where the series resumed in 1942).
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This is a spectacular-looking upgrade from MPI’s very good-looking 2006 DVD box set containing all 14 of the 1939-1946 features starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, still considered by many the most definitive of the dozens of performers who have appeared in these roles over the past century (most recently Robert Downey Jr. Now let’s chase the thread through this study in scarlet tomatoes, as we reveal the best (and worst) Sherlock Holmes movies and series.The handful of ’30s and ’40s black-and-white films available on Blu-ray will more than double with the very welcome March 29 release of “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection” from MPI.
To complete the picture, Holmes-adjacent works are included, including Gene Wilder’s The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother, Disney’s The Great Mouse Detective, and Netflix’s Enola Holmes, featuring Sherlock’s teenage sister as played by Millie Bobby Brown. That includes films from Basil Rathbone’s defining decades-long run accessorized with the deerstalker hat, Robert Downey Jr.’s blockbuster take, and Sherlock‘s modern spin with Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Nearly 100 years after 1922’s Sherlock Holmes, the watershed movie that proved Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s character a Hollywood leading man, the detective remains on the case! He’s been adapted to movies and TV countless times, and we’ve organized all of his works which got a Tomatometer score in chronological order. Thumbnail: Netflix, BBC.) The Best Sherlock Holmes Movies and TV Shows (and the Worst)