Sherlock Holmes Movies

In March 2007, Warner Bros. chose to produce, seeing similarities in the concept with Batman Begins. Arthur Conan Doyle's estate had some involvement in sorting out legal issues, although the stories are in the public domain in the United States.[citation needed] Neil Marshall was set to direct,[27] but Guy Ritchie signed on to direct in June 2008.[28] When a child at boarding school, Ritchie and other pupils listened to the Holmes stories through dormitory loudspeakers. "Holmes used to talk me to sleep every night when I was seven years old," he said.[29] Therefore, his image of Holmes differed from the films. He wanted to make his film more "authentic" to Doyle,[8] explaining, "There's quite a lot of intense action sequences in the stories, [and] sometimes that hasn't been reflected in the movies."[30] Holmes' "brilliance will percolate into the action", and the film will show that his "intellect was as much of a curse as it was a blessing".[9] Ritchie sought to make Sherlock Holmes a "very contemporary film as far as the tone and texture", because it has been "a relatively long time since there's been a film version that people embraced".[30]

A. O. Scott of the New York Times noted that the director's approach to films was "to make cool movies about cool guys with cool stuff" and that Sherlock Holmes was essentially "a series of poses and stunts" which was "intermittently diverting" at best.[53]

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In terms of writers other than Conan Doyle, authors as diverse as Agatha Christie, Anthony Burgess, Neil Gaiman, Dorothy B. Hughes, Stephen King, Tanith Lee, A. A. Milne, and P. G. Wodehouse have all written Sherlock Holmes pastiches. Contemporary with Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc directly featured Holmes in his popular series about the gentleman thief, Arsne Lupin, though legal objections from Conan Doyle forced Leblanc to modify the name to "Herlock Sholmes" in reprints and later stories.[206] In 1944, American mystery writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee (writing under their joint pseudonym Ellery Queen) published The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, a collection of thirty-three pastiches written by various well-known authors.[207][208] Mystery writer John Dickson Carr collaborated with Arthur Conan Doyle's son, Adrian Conan Doyle, on The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, a pastiche collection from 1954.[209] In 2011, Anthony Horowitz published a Sherlock Holmes novel, The House of Silk, presented as a continuation of Conan Doyle's work and with the approval of the Conan Doyle estate;[210] a follow-up, Moriarty, appeared in 2014.[211] The "MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories" series of pastiches, edited by David Marcum and published by MX Publishing, has reached over thirty volumes and features hundreds of stories echoing the original canon which were compiled for the restoration of Undershaw and the support of Stepping Stones School, now housed in it.[212][213]

Just watched it for the first timed and loved it. I loved a few different aspects of it: Always been a big Egyptian mythology fan (one of my fave movies of all time is The Mummy.) I love Sherlock Holmes and mysteries, and I loved how it had a certain charm to it. It felt very similar to the first Harry Potter feel wise, which would make sense since Chris Columbus worked on both.

There are many cheap and low-quality versions of these movies on DVD and VHS. Don't waste your time or money. I've listed high-quality DVDs below, and called out a few as "highly recommended" based on the picture/sound quality, movie ranking, extras, and price. See the key to movie entries for more details.

While other collections of Rathbone films do exist, the ones below (and The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection) are generally considered to provide the best picture quality and extras. Scores in this section only apply within a collection type. The Double Feature DVDs are a better value than the 4-DVD Boxed sets, but they do put two movies on a single disc. I recommend getting the Double Feature DVDs.

For double features and boxed sets, I added the raw points for each movie in the set and used the total to establish a relative score for the two-film or four-film collection. Note that this score only reflects the movies in the set; it does not account for any extras or packaging.

If these story elements seem typical of Conan Doyle, there is also a lot in this movie that can be traced directly to the work of Steven Spielberg, the executive producer. The teenage heroes, for example, are not only inspired by Holmes and Watson, but are cousins of the young characters in "The Goonies." The fascination with lighter-than-air flight leads to a closing scene that reminded me of "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial." And the villain's secret temple, with its ritual of human sacrifice, was not unlike scenes in both the Indiana Jones movies.

The elaborate special effects also seem a little out of place in a Sherlock Holmes movie, although I'm willing to forgive them because they were fun. The traditional world of Holmes (in the movies, anyway) has been limited to fogbound streets, speeding carriages, smoky sitting rooms and the homes and laboratories of suspects. In this film, we get a series of hallucinations that are represented by fancy special effects, and then there's the pseudo-Egyptian temple of doom at the end. The effects were supplied by Industrial Light & Magic, the George Lucas brain trust, and the best one is a computer-animated stained glass window that fights a duel with Holmes.

Continuing my series of Sherlock Holmes posts, I wanted to share my thoughts about the two Robert Downey, Jr movies from 2009 and 2011 about Holmes and compare them to the recent BBC TV series and the original books.

All in all, the movies were pretty faithful to Doyle original and also impressed based on the decor and the dialog. There were some nits but overall, both movies were entertaining and actually fun to watch. That being said, I was more blown away and motivated by the TV series because it was the show that put me on this Holmsian quest in the first place.

Something which I hope will interest members. An interview with Nigel Bruce's daughter before her death, and extracts from his unpublished memoirs about his time with Basil Rathbone making the Sherlock Holmes movies and radio series. Sorry it is hard to read, do click on each page to enlarge. If any member on here has a contact within the Bruce family it would be interesting to know what became of the manuscript of this memoir. If at all possible it should be published.

During WW1, he engaged in the Liverpool Scottish Regiment. He won the Military Cross for his bravery. After the war, he came back to stage and played in several plays which met success, then he started working for the cinema in the United States where he settled definitively in 1934. He played in many movies, often in bad guys' roles, for example in as David Copperfield (1935), Anna Karenina (1935), Romeo and Juliet (1936, in the role of Tybalt, which earned him a nomination for Oscars) or also The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Basil Rathbone is best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in 14 movies between 1939 and 1946, with the understanding that in 1939, when he was 47, he had vainly offered his services to his country to fight in the war. The series began with two hits in 1939 for Fox : The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Fox decided not to continue after these two films. By october 1939, however, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, who played Dr. Watson began the recordings of The (New) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the radio adaptation of the adventures of detective written by Edith Meiser, then from 1943 to 1945 by Denis Green and Leslie Charteris (under the pseudonym Bruce Taylor), and then from 1945 to 1947 by Denis Green and Anthony Boucher. Edith Meiser resumed in 1947 adaptations these adaptations were aired until 1946, and then continued, but with Tom Conway in the role of detective.

Meanwhile, Rathbone and Bruce worked with Universal and played Holmes and Watson in 12 sherlockian movies (in fact pastiches far from the original Conan Doyle stories) : Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942), Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942), Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943), The Scarlet Claw (1944), The Spider Woman (1944), The Pearl of Death (1944), The House of Fear (1945), The Woman in Green (1945), Pursuit to Algiers (1945), Terror by Night (1946) et Dressed to Kill (1946).

Tired of Sherlock Holmes and not willing to be associated to this character (but in reality, the damage was already done), Basil Rathbone decided in 1946 not to renew his contract for radio adaptations, and move to New York with his second wife, Ouida Bergere (born Ida Berger), whom he married in 1926 and then had many successes both on Broadway (and he won in 1948, the Tony Award for best actor), in the movies (especially horror films with Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price and Peter Lorre) and television (he played on 26 may 1953 once again the role of Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Black Baronet, with Martyn Green in Watson).

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It sounds good! I'll have to look out for that one. I keep missing movies as I don't get to the cinema in time and then they finish in a few weeks! I must say, 'Jude' is not the person who would have sprung to mind when I thought 'Watson' but it could be inspired casting! Enjoy your week and happy writing! xx

ah...eh... I am so shocked. I didn't know about this. I can't imagine Robert Downey JR as Sherlock. At all. And Law as Watson? ARGH!!!! This creates so much dissonance in my brain! LOL

Who do I like as Sherlock? Ah, I really will have to go check my dvds. We have this british series (they are movies really, but i think it was tv only) which was exceptionally cast.

Dream Sherlock would be a young-again Michael Caine who was so perfect in the hilarious Sherlock parody Without a Clue. Hey, I can dream, right :)

No, I mean seriously, they should have at least made Jude play Sherlock! What is this? Unbelievable!