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[QUOTE=JackDaw;5247261]Yes it was clever the way they transferred so much of the source material in a way that made sense in modern times, and I loved the New York setting. Arguably the central Holmes/ Watson partnership was better balanced than is often the case.
It’s first modern take on Holmes I’ve seen...will have to give Sherlock a try sometime.[/QUOTE]
I think you’ll enjoy Sherlock. Even as someone who prefers Holmes stories set in Victorian London, I thought this show was great.
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[QUOTE=JackDaw;5247261]Yes it was clever the way they transferred so much of the source material in a way that made sense in modern times, and I loved the New York setting. Arguably the central Holmes/ Watson partnership was better balanced than is often the case.
It’s first modern take on Holmes I’ve seen...will have to give Sherlock a try sometime.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=WestPhillyPunisher;5247308]I think you’ll enjoy Sherlock. Even as someone who prefers Holmes stories set in Victorian London, I thought this show was great.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, totally give it a shot!
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[QUOTE=Riv86672;5246726]Anyone ever watch the Sherlock Holmes cartoon?
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I only ever caught a few here and there.
I remember enjoying them, actually.[/QUOTE]
I loved this cartoon
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[QUOTE=Riv86672;5246726]Anyone ever watch the Sherlock Holmes cartoon?
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I only ever caught a few here and there.
I remember enjoying them, actually.[/QUOTE]
I have the DVD set and am slowly working my way through. I'm really enjoying it, and it is obvious that the writers know - and love - the original stories.
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Stumbled onto this at Barnes & Noble a couple of years ago:
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An early 60's TV show starring Peter Cushing as Holmes and Nigel Stock as Watson. It was said that only five episodes of this show survived, but, they were good ones:
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Sign of Four
The Blue Carbuncle
A Study in Scarlet
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Cushing, like Brett, Rathbone, Lee, Cumberbatch and RDJ brought his own unique take on the legendary sleuth and it was most enjoyable. I don't know if this collection is still in print or not, but, if you can find it, by all means, buy it.
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^^^never heard of that one. Excellent!
Does anyone else think ‘Larry Hagman’ when they think of Sherlock?
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[QUOTE=Riv86672;5248710]^^^never heard of that one. Excellent!
Does anyone else think ‘Larry Hagman’ when they think of Sherlock?
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Nope, not particularly. He'll always be JR Ewing to me.
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[QUOTE=WestPhillyPunisher;5248689]Stumbled onto this at Barnes & Noble a couple of years ago:
[IMG]http://pics.filmaffinity.com/sherlock_holmes_tv_series-471340584-large.jpg[/IMG]
An early 60's TV show starring Peter Cushing as Holmes and Nigel Stock as Watson. It was said that only five episodes of this show survived, but, they were good ones:
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Sign of Four
The Blue Carbuncle
A Study in Scarlet
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Cushing, like Brett, Rathbone, Lee, Cumberbatch and RDJ brought his own unique take on the legendary sleuth and it was most enjoyable. I don't know if this collection is still in print or not, but, if you can find it, by all means, buy it.[/QUOTE]
He's fairly short, right? But wow, he has the look in that pic.
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[QUOTE=WestPhillyPunisher;5248720]Nope, not particularly. He'll always be JR Ewing to me.[/QUOTE]
And to me, he''ll always be Major Tony Nelson.
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[QUOTE=achilles;5248728]He's fairly short, right? But wow, he has the look in that pic.[/QUOTE]
He wasn't that short. He was 1.82 m (or 5'11 1/2" in the old money). In my head, Holmes should be over 6', but I wont quibble over half an inch for an actor of Cushing's calibre.
I have that collection, but I haven't got around to watching it yet (I seem to be accumulating DVDs faster than I can watch them), but I did enjoy his portrayal of Holmes in the 1959 [I]The Hound of the Baskervilles[/I] movie (which has Christopher Lee as Sir Henry baskerville).
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[QUOTE=foxley;5248744]He wasn't that short. He was 1.82 m (or 5'11 1/2" in the old money). In my head, Holmes should be over 6', but I wont quibble over half an inch for an actor of Cushing's calibre.
I have that collection, but I haven't got around to watching it yet (I seem to be accumulating DVDs faster than I can watch them), but I did enjoy his portrayal of Holmes in the 1959 [I]The Hound of the Baskervilles[/I] movie (which has Christopher Lee as Sir Henry baskerville).[/QUOTE]
Huh, thought he looked short. But now I realize I'm really only used to seeing him standing next to Dave Prowse...:p
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[QUOTE=achilles;5248728]He's fairly short, right? But wow, he has the look in that pic.[/QUOTE]
Peter Cushing was 5' 11.5" (181.6 cm) tall, according to IMDB. I've never seen those TV episodes, but several times I've watched his Holmes in the 1959 movie version of [I]The Hound of the Baskervilles[/I]. (Christopher Lee played Sir Henry Baskerville, and as you might guess from that pairing it was in fact a filme from the Hammer Films studio, directed by Terrence Fisher.) I rather enjoy this film, which was intended to be the first in a series of Holmes films starring Cushing, but since it did poorly at the box ofice Hammer went back to horror.
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An actor who was "right" for Holmes physically was the 6' 2" (188 cm) Nicol Williamson, who played him in the 1976 film [I]The Seven-Per-Cent Solution[/I]. Williamson played Holmes as quite a skilled athlete in fencing and tennis. In the film's climax, Holmes bests the villain in a sword fight atop a moving train!
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[QUOTE=WestPhillyPunisher;5248720]Nope, not particularly. He'll always be JR Ewing to me.[/QUOTE]
^^^it was a rhetorical question.
NObody thinks of Larry Hagman when they think of Sherlock. :p
[QUOTE=foxley;5248734]And to me, he''ll always be Major Tony Nelson.[/QUOTE]
^^^Yeah I grew up on Maj. Nelson. Seeing him all evil on Dallas used to freak me out!
Wasn’t he on Nip/Tuck for a few seasons?
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[QUOTE=foxley;5248744]He wasn't that short. He was 1.82 m (or 5'11 1/2" in the old money). In my head, Holmes should be over 6', but I wont quibble over half an inch for an actor of Cushing's calibre.
I have that collection, but I haven't got around to watching it yet (I seem to be accumulating DVDs faster than I can watch them), but I did enjoy his portrayal of Holmes in the 1959 [I]The Hound of the Baskervilles[/I] movie (which has Christopher Lee as Sir Henry baskerville).[/QUOTE]
I’ve watched that myself and thought it was brilliant.
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The 6' 1" Robert Stephens starred in Billy Wilder's 1970 film [I]The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes[/I].
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Christopher Lee played a condescending Mycroft splendidly.
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