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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsBest Sherlock Holmes in the movies?
Basil Rathbone.
The recent movies just can't hold a candle to him.
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Best Sherlock Holmes in the movies? (Original Post)
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Oct 2012
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HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)1. Well, maybe not in the movies, but "Basil of Baker Street".
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)2. As far as the big screen goes, Basil was tops. nt
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)3. +1
The others are just wannabes.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)5. Jeremy Brett was better in a stranger way.
Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)9. This, though it wasn't in movies....
I always thought Rathbone sucked as Holmes. Maybe because they played Watson as such a boob.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)6. No question!
trof
(54,256 posts)7. Rathbone IS (was) Holmes.
And Nigel Bruce was the perfect Dr. Watson.
Nobody could blither like Bruce.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)10. Yes - like Sean Connery was the best James Bond
at least to me. It's as if they were born to bring these characters to life.
mythology
(9,527 posts)11. Robert Downey Jr is my second favorite movie Sherlock
The others are all tied for first in comparison.
I think Rathbone is the best big screen, but I think the BBC's Sherlock series is even better.