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When it comes to setting the scene for a Sherlock Holmes film, it's hard to imagine anyone one-upping the masterful, Oscar-nominated art direction in Guy Ritchie's 2009 take on Arthur Conan Doyle's ...

Then, in 1939 Rathbone received a phone call from 20th Century Fox that would change the course of his career: it was an offer to play Sherlock Holmes in a big budget version of The Hound of the ...

QUESTION Were any of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films made in the UK? No, all 14 Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone were made in Hollywood. Basil Rathbone (1892-1967) was born in ...

In the neverending quest for cinematic gems hidden in the weekly TV listings, here's what I'll be watching (or at least recording) this week: What: "The Hound of the Baskervilles," the 1939 retelling ...

The second case for Rathbone’s classic incarnation of Arthur Conan-Doyle’s big-brained detective was still set in the appropriate — if pleasingly clichéd — lamppost lit London of 1894. The following ...

Raymond G. Cabana Jr.’s love of horror stories and mysteries in comic books of the 1950s tugged him along to movies of the same genre. And later, his valuable film collection of fictional crime ...

EXCLUSIVE: Rathbone - celebrated by many as the 'real' Holmes - has told how Sherlock was a curse that ruined his credibility as an actor British actor Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes The Hound of ...