A great many of the actors who did Holmes - like the British actor Ronald Howard (son of Leslie Howard) or Christopher Plummer (particularly in "Murder By Decree", a movie that I loved) are really doing an imitation of Rathbone, who in turn (I at least think) was holding to the traditions started by Gillette (the constant wearing of the Ulster and the Deerstalker, the underslung pipe etc). What Brett and the producers of that series did was dispose of 60 or 70 years of crap and go back to the original stories.
Of course no one - including the Brett series - has truly gotten Watson right. Ironically, the two Guy Ritchie movies with Jude Law as Watson (and Robert Downie Jr. as Holmes) have come closest to doing Watson right (gods help us!).
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Wontner surely looks the part. The only one I've seen is the Michael Cane. It was awful.
Loved the Michael Caine movie.
I would add Frank Langella's Holmes from an HBO filmed play back in the early 80s. He was having fun.
I don't think anyone can top Jeremy Brett. He captured Holmes' oddness, which most actors seem to completely overlook.
A great many of the actors who did Holmes - like the British actor Ronald Howard (son of Leslie Howard) or Christopher Plummer (particularly in "Murder By Decree", a movie that I loved) are really doing an imitation of Rathbone, who in turn (I at least think) was holding to the traditions started by Gillette (the constant wearing of the Ulster and the Deerstalker, the underslung pipe etc). What Brett and the producers of that series did was dispose of 60 or 70 years of crap and go back to the original stories.
Of course no one - including the Brett series - has truly gotten Watson right. Ironically, the two Guy Ritchie movies with Jude Law as Watson (and Robert Downie Jr. as Holmes) have come closest to doing Watson right (gods help us!).
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