The Return of Moriarty – by John Gardner – 1974 This edition is a re-release intended to ride on the success of John Gardner’s first James Bond continuation novel, Licence Renewed (that’s License Renewed for American readers).
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Country: Canada Director: Rodney Gibbons Starring: Matt Frewer, Kenneth Welsh, Shawn Lawrence, Neville Edwards, Michel Perron, Tom Rack, Cary Lawrence, Isabel Dos Santos Music: Marc Ouellette Based on characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle This 2001 production is a part of the four tele-movie Hallmark series featuring Matt Frewer as Sherlock Holmes and Kenneth Welsh [...]
7Feb10
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The Scarlet Claw
5Feb10
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes – Edited by Hugh Greene – 1970 This book is not actually a Sherlock Holmes book, nor feature any stories with the world famous consulting detective. The stories contained within were turned into a TV series in the 1970′s. You can read Tanner’s review of series one here. Sherlock Holmes [...]
Peter Cushing: ‘Past Forgetting’ Memoirs of the Hammer Years If you have been following this series of posts, you will have read that my favourite Sherlock Holmes film is the 1959 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, which starred Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes, but the film is not without its flaws or filming [...]
4Feb10
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Spider Woman
4Feb10
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Sherlock Holmes and the Masquerade Murders – by Frank Thomas – 1986 From the blurb: ‘In a Sea of Blackness… A bank appraiser, expert at identifying counterfeit papers, is discovered quite dead in London’s financial district – but is it from natural causes or a cleverly disguised murder? Sherlock Holmes, ever the brilliant theorist, conducts [...]
Country: United States Director: Sidney Lanfield Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie, Lionel Atwill, John Carridine, E.E. Clive Based on the story by Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles was the first of fourteen Sherlock Holmes films that Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce starred in together. The first two films [...]
3Feb10
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
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Sherlock Holmes and the Treasure Train – by Frank Thomas – 1985 From the blurb: ‘Into thin air… A half million pounds in gold has disappeared from an armoured train outside London. The railroad and the banks are in an uproar, and finally they must turn to Sherlock Holmes for help. What begins as a [...]
