Why a love interest for Holmes?
This is my first post to this forum, but Ive lurked a bit and been impressed by the level of knowledge shown in earlier postings. So Id like to pose a question thats been bothering me for some time,...
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I discovered Sherlock Holmes through "the writings about The Writings." I'm certain that I first encountered the character via the telecasts of the Rathbone films in the late 1950s or early 1960s, but...
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> I stumbled across a collection of The Baker Street Journal in a libraryI hope you didn't hurt yourself, Don.BTW, if anyone wants to know how I first came into contact with the Master, may I...
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Well, David, I kinda meant that my eyeballs stumbled over said volumes, not literally, sort of like that. (Someone, please explain metaphor to the man.) Still, I hope that you share that story with us...
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Evening all.I suppose we should ask the people who decide to write about it why they insist on giving him some romance. Even to insist on some affair with Irene Adler I mean the idea is enough to make...
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Don't recall what thread it's been discussed on previously, but last night I watched SHERLOCK: CASE OF EVIL, which I received as a Christmas gift. It was okay as far as extremely revisionist...
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Richard,Out of interest, why did you think that Richard E Grant was miscast? Was it simply because of his size?Bertwww.bertcoules.co.uk
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Size had something to do with it, although that certainly didn't bother me when Christopher Lee played the part. No, he simply didn't seem to be in any way Mycroft . . .
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I remember thinking it was interesting that Grant's Mycroft - arguably the character protrayed as furthest from his canonical original - was the only one (apart from his brother in the same scene) who...
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The best extra for CASE OF EVIL would be that the disk is unplayable.
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David,I almost added a final line to my previous post: "and now over to David for his obligatory dig at this movie..."I must be psychic!Bertwww.bertcoules.co.uk
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Either that or I'm too predictable.Best Sherlock I've seen in the last few years is THE LOSS OF A PERSONAL FRIEND (1987). It's got a perfect Holmes and Watson (Peter Harding and Ian Price) and it's a...
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I've read about The Loss of a Personal Friend and would love to see it. Do you know if it's available to view at all in Britain?I find it a wee bit depressing though David that the best Holmes film...
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How odd. David or Auster, do you know where I could find more information about this film? Neither the usually-dependable internet movie database nor the redoubtable google came up with any hits.
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It's a very, very short film. Upsetting, really, but not in a tug-at-your-heartstrings kind of a way. But, no, I've no idea why it isn't listed on imdb, either.
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In Sherlock Holmes on Screen Alan Barnes describes the film as "At once a sophisticated meditation on grief and a deeply macabre joke, The Loss of a Personal Friend ... is ten times as effective a...
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> Peter Harding as a "cruel, lupine Holmes".Even better, Harding actually looks like Sherlock Holmes. In fact, he's the only filmed actor since Ian Richardson to do so!
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This was written and directed by N G Bristow, a TV director with such high-profile UK shows as The Bill and Ballykissangel on his CV. It's an intriguing (and refreshingly irreverent) reworking of the...
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I don't know about you, but I'm thinking a woman of equal intelligence and skill would be a good match for Sherlock. A near mirror image of Holmes, only she would be a woman. She would have the same...
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