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Basil Rathbone

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Basil Rathbone

When Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce were chosen to play Holmes and Watson in the 1939 film The Hound of the Baskervilles, no one realized that they would be forever linked with the chracters of the great detective and his loyal friend. The immediate success of the film led to their being chosen to portray Holmes and Watson on the radio for 8 years in 213 episodes of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume Three will be released on December 06, 2011 in Compact Disk
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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume Two will be released on December 01, 2009 in Compact Disk
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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume One will be released on December 01, 2009 in Compact Disk
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The Unfortunate Tobacconist and The Paradol Chamber will be released on January 10, 2008 in
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The Tell Tale Pigeon Feathers and The Indiscretion of Mr. Edwards will be released on January 10, 2008 in eAudio
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The Unfortunate Tobacconist and The Paradol Chamber will be released on January 10, 2008 in eAudio
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The Living Doll and The Disappearing Scientists will be released on January 10, 2008 in eAudio
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New York Review of Books, February 2, 2012
...Redheaded League”? “Silver Blaze”? “The Final Problem”?) to the best screen interpretation of the detective (Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett both have their ardent supporters). But there’s no denying that the BSI welcomes the resurgence of...
Antigo Daily Journal, January 31, 2012
...Masterpiece Theater on PBS starting in May. The Sherlock Holmes mysteries are great entertainment, just as they are. Basil Rathbone, a great actor, played the role in quite a number of the pictures but I lost interest when he was Sherlock hunting Nazis...
Indiewire, January 30, 2012
...That one, small, semantic shift renders ‘Sherlock’ unique,” Barnes writes. “Making its two leads the most likeable since Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Loveable, even; for their frailties, not despite them.” After reading through the 300-or-so...
Zimbio, January 29, 2012
...as well as cerebral strength. Even famous classic adaptions of the stories, such as the ones in which Basil Rathbone stars as Sherlock Holmes, rarely pay tribute to his incredible physicality. Holmes was somewhat of a closeted athlete, as demonstrated in...
USA Today, January 19, 2012
...the artist, likening Hook to Indiana Jones villains, Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars and "Basil Rathbone as Basil Rathbone." The first story arc of five issues is dubbed "The Great Escape," and it will follow Peter and the Lost Boys...
Neil Gaiman, January 19, 2012
...and again, to Poe: an audio book of Poe's stories and poems read by Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone recently kept me company on a long drive from the Midwest to Florida, experiencing them in a way I never had before, treasuring the experience of driving...
WDBJ7.com, January 18, 2012
...the family's small black-and-white TV set. "I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston," said Logan, 50, who still talks with child-like enthusiasm about those movies. His love of...
Reading to Know, October 12, 2011
...music by Mark Bucci and appeared in 1953 as the 5th episode of The Motorola Television Hour, with Basil Rathbone as the evil Duke. It was also adapted and produced by Stephen Teeter for use in the 1960s in a production in Berkeley, CA. Later it was...
MovieFanFare, September 19, 2011
...stations in the 1960s and '70s. My picks for the five best "B' movie detectives: 1. Sherlock Holmes. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce first appeared as Holmes and Watson in the 20th Century-Fox "A" productions of The Hound of the Baskervilles and The...
American Consumer News, July 21, 2011
...digital audiobook The April Fool’s Day Adventure: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Episode #3, narrated by Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, has received an average rating of 4.5 stars on Audible.com. The title has a running length of 1 hour and 6...
American Consumer News, July 9, 2011
...Limping Ghost and The Girl with the Gazelle : The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Episode #6 , narrated by Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, has received an average rating of 4 stars on Audible.com. The title has a running length of 1 hour and 5 min. The...
Dan's Media Digest, June 6, 2011
...Mr Sherlock Holmes of 221B Baker Street. Played by a variety of top actors in the past (from Basil Rathbone to Jeremy Brett), he's most recently been given a modern-day update in the form of Benedict Cumberbatch--endearing Sherlock to a whole new...
The Baker Street Blog, June 1, 2011
...won't give away the entire column, but McDonald mentioned how he recently acquired the complete collection of Basil Rathbone DVDs and how some of Asimov's titles have kept him off of Facebook and Twitter. Of most interest for us of course, is the...
vvb32 reads, May 23, 2011
...and romantic tale unfold, as the stars of the 1935 film - Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and Basil Rathbone - paint for you...a picture. A picture - of a pirate king. Show notes: Vintage radio show: Captain Blood (1937) Co-starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia...