"the late Jeremy Brett"
urgh I didn't even know he died. His SH was quite fantastic, indeed.

Instead of go see a crap movie why not (re)read the short stories. Doyle was a genius!

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dcba
"the late Jeremy Brett"
urgh I didn't even know he died. His SH was quite fantastic, indeed.

Yeah, he died in 1995. He was never quite the same after his wife died 10 years before...

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Instead of go see a crap movie why not (re)read the short stories. Doyle was a genius!

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DeliveranceStraightwayHoliness
This is why OT threads really have their place IMO. I now learned about Jeremy Brett, who I had not heard about, and will now go and check out. I love BBC TV. Tops.

If you're gonna check out the Granada/Brett versions,
start at the beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,
then go to the Return of Sherlock Holmes.
The third installment is the Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
and the last is Memoirs.
By the time of Memoirs, Brett was pretty ill and played Holmes
way different than he did at the beginning,

Thank you tomk. I was looking at release dates, and was piecing it together like you said.

tomk - I know that Nigel Bruce's Dr. Watson is not faithful to the Doyle character I have read a lot of the short stories. Heck Holmes was a cocaine addice as was Conan Doyle. That was alluded to once at the end of one of the movies Rathbone said the needle Watson get the needle and most people probably had no clue.

Anyone else see the new PBS Sherlock episode last Sunday?
I liked it very much, thought it was very clever.
Not Jeremy Brett, but good indeed.

I did see it and liked it well enough despite some holes in the story. It was fun to see something new brought to the character and still maintain the 'Holmesness'. I wasn't sure bringing him and Watson into the 21st century would work but it seems to have so far.

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Try Murder By Decree - the best modern day Sherlock Holmes film outside of the 1940s Basil Rathbone/Cedric Hardwicke classics. It has a cast of thousands - Christopher Plummer, Donald Sutherland etc

This is another great "modern" Sherlock Holmes film:

[www.imdb.com]

thanks loog, I need to check that one out

don't feel bad rollmops. they were going after the younger crowd that cannot think on there own, and know only about video games

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tomk - I know that Nigel Bruce's Dr. Watson is not faithful to the Doyle character I have read a lot of the short stories. Heck Holmes was a cocaine addice as was Conan Doyle. That was alluded to once at the end of one of the movies Rathbone said the needle Watson get the needle and most people probably had no clue.

At the end of Hound of the Baskervilles. Was cut out of TV prints for years, and then saw the light of day again in the '70's.