Say what you like, but there was never ever a better Sherlock Holmes duo, than Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. They are stunning together and between 1939 and 1946 they made 14 Sherlock Holmes films. I've seen them all, many times.
But again they're all on YouTube for free (and I've added some below) just if you're looking to see classic movies this weekend.
The first one was 'The Hound of The Baskervilles' but the second was 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' which really defines it all and that's the one on top. A quick look will give you a sense if they're for you.
The duo came together as radio shows originally and it was Rathbone who ended the partnership when he simply thought, they had just become too predictable, too formulaic.
Nigel Bruce you might know from Hitchcock's 'Rebecca' (a fab film) and 'Suspicion'. He died in 1953.
Rathbone was more of a Shakespearean actor (and South African in fact, but fled to Britain after he father was accused of being a spy in The Boer War) and known as 'Ratters'.
He served in The First World War where he was the British Army fencing champ and so his acting career became more of a 'swashbuckler' (Robin Hood, The Mark of Zorro, for example). Very brave, he won The Military Cross.
Hi died suddenly in New York of a heart attack at 75, in 1967.
They're great films, have a look and they're free! You won't see a better Sherlock Holmes...
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