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The First Sherlock Holmes
Posted by Melissa Strawson on January 30, 2012 at 4:16pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Since the 1890 hundreds of actors have played Sherlock Holmes on stage, screen and radio. There have been 260 films, two musicals, and even a ballet 'The Great Detective' staged at Sadlers Wells in 1953. (Which is actually very near to where I lived as a child) The first great actor to play him was the American William Gillette (1853-1937) who adapted several Conan Doyle stories to create two stage plays. Gillette gave more than 1300 stage performances as Holmes around the world and was…
Continue Why I Love Sherlock Holmes
Posted by Melissa Strawson on January 30, 2012 at 2:03pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Sherlock Holmes to me has the most incredible mind. I have never found the stories to be dated, despite the time period it is set in. He is dedicated and a Master puzzle solver. He has a obsession with his work because he is a workaholic and he makes it a science revealing how he does it. He lives by no other rules than his own and he 'created his own profession and is the only one in the world' he says . Arthur Conan Doyle had always wanted to be known as a great author of historical…
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The Greatest Sherlock Holmes Movie NEVER Made: If only Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger had made it!
Posted by John Clayton on January 27, 2012 at 5:40pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Reading the second volume of Michael Powell's autobiography, MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE, makes me wish (for the 10,000th time) that Michael Powell and his long time collaborator, Emeric Pressburger had made at least one Sherlock Holmes film. Powell & Pressburger were famous as The Archers, the maverick production team whose habit was to make unorthodox movies. They include such masterpeices as THE LIFE & DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (does anyone know the Sherlock Holmes…
Continue Three Detectives Walked into a Bar
Posted by Kathleen Kaska on January 23, 2012 at 10:59am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Three Detective Walked into a Bar
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