With his long slender features visible under a deerstalker hat and a smoking pipe in hand, actor Basil Rathbone is as synonymous with Sherlock Holmes as ... scores of motion pictures, including ...

His lushly appointed "Sherlock Holmes" -- which will spawn a sequel around Christmas -- was a gorgeous visual work of art, and a pretty solid bit of fun, to boot. Basil Rathbone, left, starred as ...

QUESTION Were any of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock ... Pictures picked it up and made 12 low-budget films at their own studios. The Universal versions played fast and loose with the Holmes stories ...

"He wasn't Basil Rathbone." That's a stereotype! Unfortunately it is one people associate him with. Also if Guy Ritchie is refering to Holmes? The books never say that Sherlock Holmes wore a ...

Sherlock Holmes has been around for a long time. He made his first literary appearance in 1887 and his first leading role in a cinematic medium took place in 1900 in Mutoscope, a coin-in-the-slot ...

The film was a huge worldwide success, and the beginning of a process which saw the end of Basil Rathbone the Shakesperian star and the beginning of Sherlock Holmes, the action movie hero.