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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
It will not be the Sherlock Holmes on film many remember - the suave Basil Rathbone to the bumbling Nigel Bruce - but a new big budget action movie will be faithful to Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories, its director Guy Ritchie said yesterday. Shooting is about to begin in London on the Warner Bros movie with Robert Downey Jr taking the lead alongside Jude Law, now confirmed as Dr Watson. Kelly...
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edblog (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
I have loved old schlocky horror films for a long while now, particularly the British ones from the Hammer studios. In fact, there's a certain grade of British film - usually of the mystery, thriller or horror genre, but not always - which thrill me endlessly. The Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films are a good example of this. Another is that marvellous British invention, the horror anthology. People...
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Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Click here to begin the broadcast. Information, Please! was one of the most popular, and literate, shows on American radio, airing from 1938-1948 and running briefly as a TV show in the early 1950s. Its format was novel: instead of quizzing contestants from the general public, listeners submitted questions to quiz the experts, and if they stumped the resident eggheads, they won money and (for many...
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A. G. T. (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
From 70 years ago, one of my favortie old movies, Adventures of Robin Hood . I think this was one of Errol Flynn's best movies. Also, I've always liked the man who plays the villian, the Sheriff of Nottingham, Basil Rathbone. I think Basil was the best of the many actors who played Sherlock Holmes , although Jeremy Brett was no slouch. And here's some Errol Flynn trivia - Whatever became of his son,...
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Mae West (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
MAE WEST was arrested on 9 February 1927 along with the cast of " Sex " and the cast of " The Captive ." • • Snooty Basil Rathbone, who died in July [on 21 July 1967 in New York, NY], was cuffed and brought downtown to Jefferson Market Police Court along with Helen Menken and their co-stars. • • Born in South Africa on 13 June 1892, Basil Rathbone was one year older than Mae West — — but in his mind,...
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Dethroner (Free subscription) | 16/04/2008
Sometimes, we all just need to laugh. When I do, I pull the Court Jester DVD off the shelf. While no one will ever Out Fox the Fox, this may be one of the funniest moments in movie history. Danny Kaye is one of my favorite comedic actors of all time; Basil Rathbone is just [...]
