The Baker Street Universe is parallel to our own. It is based on certain realities that are common to ours, but also many which have diverged, creating a new timeline and order of events. You will discover heroes such as you've never known before and villains you will be glad never existed in our world. In the Baker Street Universe the authors of all great works will be found co-existing with their creations. Which also means their villains as well!
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Sunday, July 10, 2016
Monday, May 30, 2016
Sherlock Holmes Movie: The Scarlett Claw
Starring Basil Rathbone, the villain of Robin Hood, another excellent film he starred in. And Nigel Green as the bumbling Watson. Classic film and story!
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death --- Movie
From Wikipedia
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death is the sixth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes films. Made in 1943, it is a loose adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes story "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual." Its three immediate predecessors in the film series were World War II spy adventures with Holmes and Watson as characters, but this one marks a return to the pure mystery form. Though several characters are military men and there are frequent mentions of the war, it is not the focus of the story.
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Plot
Dr. Watson is serving as resident doctor at Musgrave Hall in Northumberland, a stately home which is also used as a hospital for a number of servicemen suffering from shell shock.[1]When Sally Musgrave displays her feelings for one of the wounded American fighter pilots, Captain Pat Vickery, who is currently recovering at the family estate, her brothers Geoffrey and Phillip are quick to show their dismay.
Then one of the physicians working at the estate, Dr. Sexton, is assaulted by an unknown assailant when out on a walk. Dr. John Watson, who is in charge of the medical facility, goes to fetch his dear friend Sherlock Holmes to bring some clarity to the case of the attack.
Upon his arrival to the estate, Sherlock Holmes discovers a dead body belonging to one of the brothers, Geoffrey. Inspector Lestrade of the Scotland Yard is put on the case to solve the murder, and immediately arrests the captain as a suspect.
Holmes is of another opinion about the flyer's guilt and continues to investigate on his own. Phillip is formally made the new head of the estate the next day with the aid of his sister. But only one day of ruling the estate, Phillip too is found murdered, lying in the trunk of the car.
Lestrade arrests the family butler, Alfred Brunton for the murder, while Holmes and Watson look into the special "Musgrave Ritual" that the family uses to appoint the new head of the family. They find the words used in the ritual hidden in Sally's room, and try to copy the ritual, which involves replaying a giant chess game on the checkered floor of the house main hall. As pieces in the game they use the household staff.
The game gives them clues to the family's secret burial crypt underneath the house, and there they find Brunton murdered. Holmes pretends to go down into the crypt to examine the body for clues, but the real reason for him going down there is to wait for the murderer to reappear. Before long, Dr. Sexton appears and is captured by Holmes.
Holmes suggests that Sexton had discovered an old document that said the estate was worth millions of pounds, and then killed both brothers, hoping to marry Sally who would inherit the estate. He also tried to frame the captain so that he could not marry Sally. The doctor manages to overpower Holmes and takes his revolver. Then he confesses that he indeed is the one responsible for the murders. When he tries to shoot Holmes he discovers that the bullets are blanks.
Lestrade and Watson come to the rescue and overpower and arrest Sexton. Holmes and Watson go back to London together. Sally destroys the document, claiming to not want to be rich on the cost of others' lives.[2]
Cast
- Basil Rathbone – Sherlock Holmes
- Nigel Bruce – Dr. Watson
- Dennis Hoey – Inspector Lestrade
- Arthur Margetson – Dr. Bob Sexton
- Hillary Brooke – Sally Musgrave
- Halliwell Hobbes – Alfred Brunton
- Minna Phillips – Mrs. Howells
- Milburn Stone – Captain Vickary
- Gavin Muir – Phillip Musgrave
- Gerald Hamer – Major Langford
- Charles Coleman – Constable Kray
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Friday, May 1, 2015
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Sherlock Holmes in Washington, a Classic TV movie starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) is the fifth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes movies. The plot is an original story not based on any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes tales, though it bears some similarity to "The Bruce-Partington Plans."
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A British agent carrying a vital document is murdered on his way to deliver it in the USA. Holmes deduces he was carrying the document in the form of microfilm and goes to Washington with Watson to find the killer and retrieve the document before it falls into the hands of an "international spy ring". Before his death, the agent managed to pass the microfilm into the unwitting hands of a Washington debutante and bride-to-be. There are some amusing moments when the microfilm, which has been inserted into a "V for Victory" matchbook, gets passed from hand to hand at a party unknowingly, and at one point is discarded by the chief criminal. Holmes and Watson track down the criminals, rescue the bride-to-be and regain the microfilm.Cast
- Basil Rathbone – Sherlock Holmes
- Nigel Bruce – Dr. Watson
- Marjorie Lord – Nancy Partridge
- Henry Daniell – William Easter
- George Zucco – Heinrich Hinkel
- John Archer – Lt. Pete Merriam
- Gavin Muir – Mr. Lang, government agent
- Edmund MacDonald – Detective Lt. Grogan
- Don Terry – Howe
- Bradley Page – Cady
- Holmes Herbert – Mr. Ahrens
- Thurston Hall – Senator Henry Babcock
Cast notes
John Archer and Marjorie Lord, who play an engaged couple in this film, were a married couple when it was made. The two main villains in "Sherlock Holmes in Washington" played Holmes' nemesis Professor Moriarty in other films. George Zucco played the role in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), and Henry Daniell portrayed Moriarty in The Woman in Green (1945). Gerald Hamer, who appeared in four other of Rathbone's Holmes movies, has a brief, uncredited but pivotal role in this one.Oscar Homolka was originally cast in this film as Holmes's elder brother Mycroft. He quit the part due to family issues, and Mycroft's character was replaced by "Mr. Ahrens", portrayed by Holmes Herbert.
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Friday, April 24, 2015
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Sherlock Holmes...The Hound of the Bakervilles Movie starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film)
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| The Hound of the Baskervilles | |
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| Directed by | Sidney Lanfield |
| Produced by | Gene Markey |
| Screenplay by | Ernest Pascal |
| Based on | The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Starring | |
| Music by | David Buttolph |
| Cinematography | Peverell Marley |
| Edited by | Robert Simpson |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time
| 80 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1939 mystery film based on the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was directed by Sidney Lanfield and produced by 20th Century Fox.
It is the best-known cinematic adaptation of the book, and is often regarded as one of the best film versions.[1] The film stars Basil Rathboneas Sherlock Holmes, Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson and Richard Greene as Henry Baskerville. Because the studio apparently had no idea that the film would be such a hit, and that Rathbone and Bruce would make many more Sherlock Holmes films and be forever linked with Holmes and Watson, top billing went to Richard Greene, who was the film's romantic lead. Rathbone was billed second. Wendy Barrie, who played Beryl Stapleton, the woman with whom Greene falls in love, received third billing, and Nigel Bruce, the film's Dr. Watson, was billed fourth. In all their other Holmes films, Rathbone and Bruce would receive first and second billing respectively.
The Hound of the Baskervilles marks the first of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes movies starring Rathbone and Bruce as the detective duo. It is also notable as the first Sherlock Holmes film to be set in the Victorian period of the original stories; all previous Holmes film adaptations, up to and including the 1930s British film series starring Arthur Wontner as Holmes, had been updated to a setting contemporaneous with the films' release.
Plot[edit]
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. John Watson (Nigel Bruce) receive a visit from Dr. James Mortimer (Lionel Atwill), who wishes to consult them before the arrival of Sir Henry Baskerville (Richard Greene), the last of the Baskervilles, heir to the Baskerville estate in Devonshire.
Dr. Mortimer is uneasy about letting Sir Henry go to Baskerville Hall, owing to a supposed family curse. He tells Holmes and Watson the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, a demonic dog that first killed Sir Hugo Baskerville (Ralph Forbes) several hundred years ago (seen in flashback) and is believed to kill all Baskervilles in the region of Devonshire.
Holmes dismisses it as a fairy tale, but Mortimer narrates the events of the recent death of his best friend, Sir Charles Baskerville, Sir Henry's uncle. Although he was found dead in his garden without any trace of physical damage, Sir Charles's face was distorted as if he died in utter terror, from heart failure. Dr. Mortimer reveals something not mentioned at the official inquest. He alone had noticed footprints at some distance from the body when it was found; they were the paw marks of a gigantic hound. He never dared report them because no one would have believed him.
Holmes decides to send Watson to Baskerville Hall along with Sir Henry, claiming that he is too busy to accompany them himself. Sir Henry quickly develops a romantic interest in Beryl Stapleton (Wendy Barrie), the step-sister of his neighbour Jack Stapleton (Morton Lowry), a local naturalist. Meanwhile, a homicidal maniac (Nigel De Brulier), escaped from Dartmoor Prison, lurks on the moor.
Holmes eventually makes an appearance, having been hiding in the vicinity for some time making his own enquiries. An effective scene, not in the original book, occurs when Watson and Sir Henry attend a seance held by Mrs. Mortimer (Beryl Mercer). In a trance, she asks, "What happened that night on the moor, Sir Charles?" The only reply is a lone howl, possibly from a hound.
After some clever deception by Holmes, it is revealed that the true criminal is Stapleton, a long-lost cousin of the Baskervilles, who hopes to claim their vast fortune himself after removing all other members of the bloodline.
Stapleton kept a huge, half-starved, vicious dog (played by a Great Dane) trained to attack individual members of the Baskervilles after prolonged exposure to their scent. However, when the hound is finally sent to kill Sir Henry Baskerville, Holmes and Watson arrive to save him just in time. They kill the hound, and Stapleton flees.
Unlike the original novel, the villain's fate is unknown in the film. Holmes does say ominously, "He won't get very far. I've posted constables along the roads and the only other way is across the Grimpen Mire."
Cast[edit]
- Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes
- Nigel Bruce - Dr. John H. Watson
- Richard Greene - Sir Henry Baskerville
- Wendy Barrie - Beryl Stapleton
- Lionel Atwill - Dr. James Mortimer
- John Carradine - Barryman
- Morton Lowry - John (Jack) Stapleton
- Eily Malyon - Mrs. Barryman
- Barlowe Borland - Frankland
- Beryl Mercer - Mrs. Jennifer Mortimer
- Ralph Forbes - Sir Hugo Baskerville
- E.E. Clive - Cabby
- Lionel Pape - Coroner
- Nigel De Brulier - Convict (as Nigel de Brulier)
- Mary Gordon - Mrs. Hudson
The butler was named Barrymore in the novel, but because of the existence of the real-life John Barrymore of the Barrymore family theatrical dynasty, his name was changed to Barryman in the film.
Awards and honors[edit]
American Film Institute recognition
- 2001 - AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills - Nominated
- 2003 - AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains:
- Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson - Nominated Heroes
- 2008 - AFI's 10 Top 10 - Nominated Mystery Film
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