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Old 01-10-2007, 12:33 PM
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Was any of the Holmes stories set in the USA ,I'm sure i saw one where he was in the USA, it was in B/W,its got to be a forties or fifties film??.

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Sherlock Holmes In Washington with Basil Rathbone (1943).

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Edit - see below ... nice one Joe
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OK, here's a quick Holmes quiz...

Who is the only actor to have played both Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson on film?

Who is the only actor to have played both Sherlock Holmes and his brother Mycroft?
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Christopher Lee played Holmes and Mycroft on film. Reginald Owen played both Holmes and Watson on film.

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Well, done, I should know better than to bit my wits against the caped crusader!
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Well, done, I should know better than to bit my wits against the caped crusader!
I don't know about that ... but I do love my Sherlock Holmes.

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OK, here's a quick Holmes quiz...

Who is the only actor to have played both Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson on film?

Who is the only actor to have played both Sherlock Holmes and his brother Mycroft?
Patrick Macnee has doubled up as Holmes and Watson too.

He played Watson three times; opposite Christopher Lee in Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady and Incident at Victoria Falls and opposite Roger Moore in Sherlock Holmes in New York.

He got to play Holmes in The Hound of London which doesn't sound too enticing.
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Christopher Lee played Holmes and Mycroft on film. Reginald Owen played both Holmes and Watson on film.

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Peter Jeffrey has played Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes
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Christopher Lee played Holmes and Mycroft on film. Reginald Owen played both Holmes and Watson on film.

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Lee almost got to play Moriarty too.

In 2002 the downright alarming Harry Alan Towers planned a project entitled THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS. Malcolm McDowell was cast as Holmes and Lee was set to play the Napoleon of crime, which would have seen him complete a unique set: playing Holmes, his brother and his mortal enemy. However the film was never made.

As Lee has also played Sir Henry Baskerville it can only be a matter of time before someone casts him as Mrs Hudson!
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Lee almost got to play Moriarty too.

In 2002 the downright alarming Harry Alan Towers planned a project entitled THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS. Malcolm McDowell was cast as Holmes and Lee was set to play the Napoleon of crime, which would have seen him complete a unique set: playing Holmes, his brother and his mortal enemy. However the film was never made.

As Lee has also played Sir Henry Baskerville it can only be a matter of time before someone casts him as Mrs Hudson!
Is there no limit to the fiendish plotting of Harry Alan Towers aka Peter Wellbeck et all. He is even planning to revive the Fu Manchu series. Wonder if Jess Franco will be contracted to direct ? I have always assumed (though I don't know) that the Towers epics are simply tax-shelter movies never really intended to be successful.
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He's quite a character is Mr Towers. I wish someone would write a book on his career.

I really liked The Face of Fu Manchu and I suppose I should be grateful that he kept Oliver Reed in employment so often when not that many others would go near him!

Towers' latest 'project' is a new version of Moll Flanders to be directed by Ken Russell.

I'd like to see that come off but with an 86-year-old producer and 80-year-old director it's probably unlikely.
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He's quite a character is Mr Towers. I wish someone would write a book on his career.

I really liked The Face of Fu Manchu and I suppose I should be grateful that he kept Oliver Reed in employment so often when not that many others would go near him!

Towers' latest 'project' is a new version of Moll Flanders to be directed by Ken Russell.

I'd like to see that come off but with an 86-year-old producer and 80-year-old director it's probably unlikely.
Agree about the 1st Fu movie - a real corker but downhill afterwards. Towers has 'massacred' And Then There Were None three times, Harry Palmer, Alan Quatermaine the list is endless
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Patrick Macnee has doubled up as Holmes and Watson too.

He played Watson three times; opposite Christopher Lee in Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady and Incident at Victoria Falls and opposite Roger Moore in Sherlock Holmes in New York.

He got to play Holmes in The Hound of London which doesn't sound too enticing.
The Hound of London is really dreadful. MacNee is badly miscast, much too heavy and has to deal with a diabolical script and some of the lowest production values seen outside an Ed Wood movie.

His Watson in the two Lee films is much better than his performance in the Roger Moore one. In the Moore film he puts on this strained mockney accent which sounds like he's gargling!

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