I like Jeremy Brett as Sherlock... I have watch almost all his episodes... But I like Sherlock Holmes that it doesn't matter who plays as Sherlock, as long as it does justice to the role.
Anything with Peter Cushing in it is worth watching, add Sherlock Holmes stories & u have a match made in heaven. I remember him from his many appearances on the Morecambe & Wise show. He obviously had a great sense of humour as well as being a brilliant actor.
Peter Cushing is definitely an underated Sherlock Holmes. It's also depressing that due to the BBC recycling the original footage, some of Cushing episodes are gone forever, similar to lost classic Dr Who episodes.
All the stars who portrayed the actor Holmes, and yes even those who delighted us with watsons sometimes naive and whimsical charm. helped to bring these delightful characters that we all love, to life. yes! I have my favorites. I admit. But so do you all. I am only going to say...Bravo to every one of them.
I'm surprised at so many negative comments here. As a fan since childhood of the stories, of Brett's interpretation, and Cumberbatch's too, I am very impressed with Cushing's Holmes, having seen this and the Blue Carbuncle. I'm surprised, because Cushing all but disowned his performance. He said he didn't have enough time to prepare, the productions were so low budget and hurried, and therefore he felt he wasn't at his best. Well, his second best is still very good, IMO. I'm glad we have these and grateful to find them on CZcams.
One other thing I never really see discussed in any Holmes conversations - I have the complete Sherlock Holmes stories from the Collectors Library and not ONCE is he described as wearing a Deerstalker hat or a Tweed overcoat. And he ALWAYS smoked a black clay pipe, never a Meerschaum Calabosh. So, we have to thank the movie industry for making up an appearance that never was...
Look for the sketches by Sydney Paget that accompanied the original stories as published in The Strand Magazine. That's where Sherlock is depicted wearing a Deerstalker, and Watson wearing a Bowler. www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/doyle-arthur-conan-paget-sidney-il-5809056-details.aspx
This Dr. Watson is a few steps up the ladder from the older ones. Brett had the best Dr. Watson, and he was also very good at other roles. Thanks for sharing a clear, good sounding version,,,enjoyable.
Mr. Cushing is one of my favorite suspense British actors he could play a wide range of characters I think he should be knighted or should have been knighted. 👍
Ed Bishop , great actor and of voice actor too. Buried at Napton Warks. Not that far from me , I must visit his grave at some point. His voice work was part of my childhood " Captain Scarlet" to name but one.
Another sanitized adaptation of A Study In Scarlet. In the original story the villains are Mormans who chased the man and woman who tried to flee the church in Utah. She died and her lover pursued the men he blamed for her death.
Jimvanhise I believe that the producers were/are afraid to put the blame on a fictional story on the Mormans. Anyway, I remember when I read that book I was so exited. It was a real thriller. A lot of the story is missing here. Pity. But I remember that it was also about a group who were terrorizing a city. What was that about? Somebody knows, remember?
Meeen. I just read today my first Sherlock Holmes story "A Study in Scarlet" and I'm so disappointed that there isn't a movie based on the original. The fictional story of the mormans was so exciting.
Jimvanhise You are absolutely right. I read the story & this movie's script was so abbreviated it was worse than cliff notes! I barely recognized this. Talk about political correctness! In this movie, the script never even explained why the German "Rache" (revenge) was use. Lots of loose ends in this version & no character development for the audience to understand how truly evil the dead men were. Terrible version!
This was the first story Arthur Conan Doyle created about Sherlock Holmes, and they left out the most interesting part. It was just before this that Holmes and Watson met each other and came to share the rooms at 221 B Baker Street.
Peter Cushing's handsome dose of finesse and subtlety in his Holmes portrayal makes for a very good rendering of the character but it pushes it gently yet sensibly off the Doyle's Holmes standard which is why he's ranked , in my opinion, the third best Holmes after Rathbone(the best of all time) and Bret (second best ).
@@derrickstorm6976 It's more than just the different names, the different visuals on screen, costumes and acting styles all create the illusion of a different person and character to the audience or viewer.
Cushing fans probably have already found the Peter Cushing version (BBC) of "1984", co-starring Donald Pleasence and Andre Morrell (!). But new Cushing fans ought to scope it out.
I do like this episode. Cushing is still the best Holmes, after Basil Rathbone, in my view. The plot is quite absurd, but the first scene with Holmes and Watson debating the anonymous newspaper article is worth watching again and again. Some good actors even in minor roles, Ed Bishop for one, and glamorous Edina Ronay, who gave up acting and became a fashion designer, just like Anoushka Hempel, who also appeared in Hammer film.
thank you for the movie.my favorite holmes and Watson team of all.another great movie is called,the seven percent solution.give it a watch if you're interested😀
I've been a fan of Jeremy Brett for ages and stumbled upon this looking for something to watch. Peter Cushing, in my opinion, is a really good Holmes! I also really enjoy Nigel's Watson. The production quality isn't great here, and some of the actors are honestly bad (I couldn't tell if the girl wanted to actually go with the man who was trying to abduct her or not. She seemed to enjoy it which was bizarre), but Peter and Nigel still deliver. I feel like the relationship between these portrayals of Holmes and Watson isn't as developed as in the Granada series- the camaraderie of old friends isn't fully there. They DO come across more like roommates, which is fine. I feel like the Granada series was just more dynamic and allowed itself to be fun in a way that a lot of film adaptations of Holmes doesn't allow for. Again, with all this being said, I get a great deal of enjoyment out of these films. I can see, especially in wardrobe and set design, what the people at Granada were influenced and inspired by.
The best thing about the Grenada series for me having read the books, is how they remained true to the stories. It is like reading the books when you watch their productions.
+LordWellington35 I've always thought that whenever in the stories Holmes is criticizing Watson's accounts of his cases IMHO he would always have had to had a special derision and contempt for the Mormon narrative near and dear to his heart. Especially when in The Sign of Four he refers to the just published A Study In Scarlet which he has read in a sneering tone "I cannot congratulate you upon it" and "You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism" which was probably about as diplomatic as Holmes could ever be with Watson concerning the Mormon narrative. He later on gets even more caustic towards Watson covering his cases with comments like "You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales." IMHO this attitude of Holmes would had to have started with the Mormon narrative in ASIS.
This was only a single 48mn. television episode, after all, and the whole backstory really would have required a good chunk of a feature length movie to develop properly.
@Starscream91 ACD was just relying on the prevailing opinion of Mormons expressed by other outside sources of the times. He later did apologize on his implied negativity.
I enjoy Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes... it can be found on youtube... Brett and Rathbone were also entertaining... each bringing their own brand of uniqueness to the character, jmo
Jeremy Brett is the quintessential Holmes; Peter Cushing is also a great actor but didnt grasp the pure gold that Brett did. Peter Cushing's interpretation is akin to Basil Rathbones dry crackle at this role. Its difficult to describe why this rendition is hard to compare to Bretts only because the time it was shot. This is a 1968 movie/show I believe what has made Bretts better was the time is was shot in.
His performance is dry, and lack luster. Basil Rathbone was a terrible interpretation of Holmes. Brett nailed the mannerisms, and Watson wasnt an idiot.
Jay Gonzales yes Watson was.. the watson from the 1954 would have been better for Basile. Basile nailed the look the voice and the disguises he was so good that the Mouse Detective was named after him he will always be my sherlock you should watch the Scarlet claw
Thanks for the recommendation, I shall pass on it. You need to watch the entire run for Brett, ignore the movies they did he was not in good health in them. He highlights the mannerisms so well he might have well been Holmes himself. Brett is and most likely be the quintessential Sherlock Holmes of our modern era.
Jay Gonzales ok you do what you want to the movie is less than 90 minutes long so you ever don't know what to watch one day and don't want to watch something that is too long remember that Starlet claw
I personally do not like Peter Cushings as Holmes at all, but Watson is great in this series. Jeremy Brett is Sherlock Holmes and always will be. Basil Rathbone was, if you look at the time period, very very good. Legendary. Watson played by Nigel Bruce was different and you should forget about the "real" Watson from the books and then you will like him. I do love him now. He make it lighter and balanced. Very funny guy. Again, it was during world war two and if you look back its amazing what they did. I also like Ian Richardson as Holmes but even better as Doctor Bell in the Murder Rooms series....
Beginning at 4:20 that is the same scene that is in the David Lynch movie Mulholland Drive when Naomi Watts is auditioning. The lines are not exactly duplicated but pretty darn close.
A brief comment on the different styles of the actors playing Holmes. The differences in the way Brett and Cushing play Holmes are not absolute. Yes, Cushing plays the quintessential English gentleman, however if you examine the subtleties of the mannerisms there are similarities. They both describe the mannerisms of the academic / intellectual, with genius level intellect, moreover Brett's Holmes more accurately displays the manic depressive tendencies that Holmes was prone to. Anyone who has spent time in the presence of artistic geniuses will recognize these characteristics in the way Brett played Holmes. Therefore Jeremy Brett's portrayal is more likely the accurate, however I enjoy them all in different ways.
yes there different actors trying to bring what they have an think what s. holems is. along with what Watson brings . also the people that see them react the same. some feel it as some don't.
@@edram4051 Nothing in the books. However, the slightly rolled R was an approved element of elocution in those days, and very common. Victorian and Edwardian sound recordings display it. It was still heard in well-educated people, I remember, up to around the nineteen sixties.
Notice how the show itself is videotaped, but the opening title sequence is shot on film. The British so often did that sort of thing back in the 60's and 70's.
Enjoyable, low budget teleplay...I like Peter Cushing in the role of Holmes (can't speak for the other guy as Watson...he was okay). Yes, excellent vintage 1968 British t.v. production!
A Study in Scarlet is a problematic story to bring to the screen because more than half of it doesn't involve Watson and Holmes at all, takes place in the US, and honestly is a rather ineffective pulp story. However, the novel does contain the first meeting of Holmes and Watson, both in their mid- to late 20s at the time. That makes it difficult to cast the "traditional", older Holmes-Watson duo (like the one here); the alternative is that you skip that first meeting, thereby cutting out what is really the best part of the novel. Which is what happens here; the most crucial part is missing and Cushing's achievement notwithstanding everyone, including Hope, is at least 20 years too old in this film.
Needed one final scene where Gragson and Lestrade are given credit in the papers for the solution of the murder and Holmes is shortchanged. Watson becomes incensed that Holmes should get credit and decides to write up the case and set the story straight. Holmes being fairly modest demures
The set people have moved the flat door from right to left. It was never before beside the two windows that was always a floor to ceiling bookcase to match the ipposite side of the windows 😂 l notice decor 😄
Peter Cushing is such an underrated actor no matter the role. He is great!
I agree
I love these old productions. They're like watching a stage play.
I thought I was watching a remake of Fawlty Towers "Waldorf Salad".
I like Jeremy Brett as Sherlock... I have watch almost all his episodes... But I like Sherlock Holmes that it doesn't matter who plays as Sherlock, as long as it does justice to the role.
It's a very trycky character as he isn't very sociable, but he delivers justice at cost.
Brett is the perfect Holmes
@@kathleencampbell2298Basil Rathbone has entered the chat ...
@@mikeyates7931 So has Herlock Sholmes.
Anything with Peter Cushing in it is worth watching, add Sherlock Holmes stories & u have a match made in heaven. I remember him from his many appearances on the Morecambe & Wise show. He obviously had a great sense of humour as well as being a brilliant actor.
Peter Cushing is definitely an underated Sherlock Holmes. It's also depressing that due to the BBC recycling the original footage, some of Cushing episodes are gone forever, similar to lost classic Dr Who episodes.
He was good but no match for Jeremy Brett who made that role his own.
@@bobradford2637 You could always warm up to Peter Cushing, even when he was playing Dr Frankenstein or some other madman.
gone forever?????
@@bobradford2637 brett was histerical totally out of the Sherlock Holmes character
@@bobradford2637 Brett was way too intense and looked like he had a baton constantly stuck up his arse.
I love the way this was filmed...it's like watching a live play. Thank you for sharing!
Me too
All the stars who portrayed the actor Holmes, and yes even those who delighted us with watsons sometimes naive and whimsical charm. helped to bring these delightful characters that we all love, to life. yes! I have my favorites. I admit. But
so do you all. I am only going to say...Bravo to every one of them.
Thank you so very much! I was just thinking the very same thing!
wisely said
Agreed!
Peter Cushing certainly did a first rate job as Sherlock Holmes. He was a great Thespian, and it's a shame some of his episodes are now gone.
Both Brett and Cushing were phenomenal. Oddly my favourite Holmes was Christopher Lee
Peter Cushing what a star.😀
Thanks for the upload, I love these 🙂.
One of the best renditions of the stories I've seen. I wasn't at all familiar with this before, having grown up in the States.
Thanks so much for posting this. Always loved Peter Cushing.
RIP Peter Cushing
I'm surprised at so many negative comments here. As a fan since childhood of the stories, of Brett's interpretation, and Cumberbatch's too, I am very impressed with Cushing's Holmes, having seen this and the Blue Carbuncle.
I'm surprised, because Cushing all but disowned his performance. He said he didn't have enough time to prepare, the productions were so low budget and hurried, and therefore he felt he wasn't at his best. Well, his second best is still very good, IMO. I'm glad we have these and grateful to find them on CZcams.
I love Sherlock Holmes. And I Love Peter Cushing. Thank you so much fot the upload. 🤗⚘⚘🤗⚘🤗⚘🤗⚘
Great rendition and excellent actors! A fun Watson and Holmes mystery. The man playing Jefferson Hope was great also!
Nigel's expression when he is feeling inferior to Sherlocks intelligence is fantastic! 17:23
I love Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes.
One other thing I never really see discussed in any Holmes conversations - I have the complete Sherlock Holmes stories from the Collectors Library and not ONCE is he described as wearing a Deerstalker hat or a Tweed overcoat. And he ALWAYS smoked a black clay pipe, never a Meerschaum Calabosh. So, we have to thank the movie industry for making up an appearance that never was...
Look for the sketches by Sydney Paget that accompanied the original stories as published in The Strand Magazine. That's where Sherlock is depicted wearing a Deerstalker, and Watson wearing a Bowler.
www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/doyle-arthur-conan-paget-sidney-il-5809056-details.aspx
He wore the deerrstalker and cape only when he was in the country.
and he also smoked a churchwarden as well
Basil Rathbone did briefly wear a deerstalker hat in his film adaptation fo Hound of the Baskervilles
And the use of the calabash pipe was a creation of William Gillette when he played the character onstage in 1899, with Doyle’s approval
The actor cast as the murderer is quite good.
can't beat the horror classics .still holds your attention
I loved peter Cushings films!!! he was always so serious, no one could beat his acting!
he had spectacular vocabulary
With the occasional R roll.
I really liked Peter in The Hound of Baskerville
Do u know Mr. Jeremy Brett?
CZcams has the early teleplay "1984" with Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasence(!), from 1952 (+/-) ~ it's primitive and fantastic! Andre Morrell also...
Thanks .
This Dr. Watson is a few steps up the ladder from the older ones. Brett had the best Dr. Watson, and he was also very good at other roles. Thanks for sharing a clear, good sounding version,,,enjoyable.
Brett had two Watsons, & Nigel Stock had two Holmes
Mr. Cushing is one of my favorite suspense British actors he could play a wide range of characters I think he should be knighted or should have been knighted. 👍
💕 all of them. With Cushing the one with the music boxes my favorite.
Peter Cushing and Nigel stock provide high quality entertainment in their portrayal of Holmes and Watson in this interesting murder mystery .
0:19 The corpse breaths comfortably.
Can't even hold their breath...thought these were British actors.
Ed Bishop , great actor and of voice actor too. Buried at Napton Warks. Not that far from me , I must visit his grave at some point. His voice work was part of my childhood " Captain Scarlet" to name but one.
And project UFO...
Taking notes on his cuff with a ball point pen 😂
Another sanitized adaptation of A Study In Scarlet. In the original story the villains are Mormans who chased the man and woman who tried to flee the church in Utah. She died and her lover pursued the men he blamed for her death.
Jimvanhise I believe that the producers were/are afraid to put the blame on a fictional story on the Mormans. Anyway, I remember when I read that book I was so exited. It was a real thriller. A lot of the story is missing here. Pity. But I remember that it was also about a group who were terrorizing a city. What was that about? Somebody knows, remember?
Meeen. I just read today my first Sherlock Holmes story "A Study in Scarlet" and I'm so disappointed that there isn't a movie based on the original. The fictional story of the mormans was so exciting.
Jimvanhise
You are absolutely right.
I read the story & this movie's script was so abbreviated it was worse than cliff notes!
I barely recognized this.
Talk about political correctness!
In this movie, the script never even explained why the German "Rache" (revenge) was use.
Lots of loose ends in this version & no character development for the audience to understand how truly evil the dead men were.
Terrible version!
This was the first story Arthur Conan Doyle created about Sherlock Holmes, and they left out the most interesting part. It was just before this that Holmes and Watson met each other and came to share the rooms at 221 B Baker Street.
I guess, you speaking about "The Valley of Fear", there was masons there
Peter Cushing's handsome dose of finesse and subtlety in his Holmes portrayal makes for a very good rendering of the character but it pushes it gently yet sensibly off the Doyle's Holmes standard which is why he's ranked , in my opinion, the third best Holmes after Rathbone(the best of all time) and Bret (second best ).
Brett is the best
Edina Ronay who plays Alice Chapentier in this teleplay portayed Mary Kelly in the Sherlock Holmes film A STUDY IN TERROR.
Yes however they are very different characters so it's easy to not know this.
How fortunate then that I pointed this out.
@@Robert_Mannersah yes the different names could be a hint
@@derrickstorm6976 It's more than just the different names, the different visuals on screen, costumes and acting styles all create the illusion of a different person and character to the audience or viewer.
Cushing fans probably have already found the Peter Cushing version (BBC) of "1984", co-starring Donald Pleasence and Andre Morrell (!). But new Cushing fans ought to scope it out.
Jeremy Brett nails the personality, mannerisms, and overall cocky behavior of Sherlock Holmes. His smiles and mannerisms are just so Sherlock.
Jeremy Brett is gay as the roaring 20's
This is Peter Cushing
@@tzzogg I'm sorry but that comment is not appropriate and has nothing to do with the video.
I do like this episode. Cushing is still the best Holmes, after Basil Rathbone, in my view. The plot is quite absurd, but the first scene with Holmes and Watson debating the anonymous newspaper article is worth watching again and again. Some good actors even in minor roles, Ed Bishop for one, and glamorous Edina Ronay, who gave up acting and became a fashion designer, just like Anoushka Hempel, who also appeared in Hammer film.
Thank you for the upload.
Excellent!
Cushing was a FINE Sherlock Holmes!!!!
Wonderful. Thank you.
lol Watson standing with the newspaper hiding his revolver
thank you for the movie.my favorite holmes and Watson team of all.another great movie is called,the seven percent solution.give it a watch if you're interested😀
Yeah it's great too :)
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I've been a fan of Jeremy Brett for ages and stumbled upon this looking for something to watch. Peter Cushing, in my opinion, is a really good Holmes! I also really enjoy Nigel's Watson. The production quality isn't great here, and some of the actors are honestly bad (I couldn't tell if the girl wanted to actually go with the man who was trying to abduct her or not. She seemed to enjoy it which was bizarre), but Peter and Nigel still deliver. I feel like the relationship between these portrayals of Holmes and Watson isn't as developed as in the Granada series- the camaraderie of old friends isn't fully there. They DO come across more like roommates, which is fine. I feel like the Granada series was just more dynamic and allowed itself to be fun in a way that a lot of film adaptations of Holmes doesn't allow for. Again, with all this being said, I get a great deal of enjoyment out of these films. I can see, especially in wardrobe and set design, what the people at Granada were influenced and inspired by.
The best thing about the Grenada series for me having read the books, is how they remained true to the stories. It is like reading the books when you watch their productions.
The film and sets remind me of the original Dark Shadows.........
They completely omitted the Mormon narrative that was in the actual story.
+LordWellington35 I've always thought that whenever in the stories Holmes is criticizing Watson's accounts of his cases IMHO he would always have had to had a special derision and contempt for the Mormon narrative near and dear to his heart. Especially when in The Sign of Four he refers to the just published
A Study In Scarlet which he has read in a sneering tone "I cannot congratulate you upon it"
and "You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism"
which was probably about as diplomatic as Holmes could ever be with Watson
concerning the Mormon narrative.
He later on gets even more caustic towards Watson covering his cases with comments like
"You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales."
IMHO this attitude of Holmes would had to have started with the Mormon narrative in ASIS.
This was only a single 48mn. television episode, after all, and the whole backstory really would have required a good chunk of a feature length movie to develop properly.
@Starscream91 ACD was just relying on the prevailing opinion of Mormons expressed by other outside sources of the times. He later did apologize on his implied negativity.
I enjoy Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes... it can be found on youtube... Brett and Rathbone were also entertaining... each bringing their own brand of uniqueness to the character, jmo
37:08 Light the Bunsen burner and then relight your pipe with the same match. Fucking cool.
He was the master of the props.
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Thank you for uploading.
Super like..Mr.holmes
Jeremy Brett is the quintessential Holmes; Peter Cushing is also a great actor but didnt grasp the pure gold that Brett did. Peter Cushing's interpretation is akin to Basil Rathbones dry crackle at this role. Its difficult to describe why this rendition is hard to compare to Bretts only because the time it was shot. This is a 1968 movie/show I believe what has made Bretts better was the time is was shot in.
Jay Gonzales basil Rathbone is the definitive holmes
His performance is dry, and lack luster. Basil Rathbone was a terrible interpretation of Holmes. Brett nailed the mannerisms, and Watson wasnt an idiot.
Jay Gonzales yes Watson was.. the watson from the 1954 would have been better for Basile. Basile nailed the look the voice and the disguises he was so good that the Mouse Detective was named after him he will always be my sherlock you should watch the Scarlet claw
Thanks for the recommendation, I shall pass on it. You need to watch the entire run for Brett, ignore the movies they did he was not in good health in them. He highlights the mannerisms so well he might have well been Holmes himself. Brett is and most likely be the quintessential Sherlock Holmes of our modern era.
Jay Gonzales ok you do what you want to the movie is less than 90 minutes long so you ever don't know what to watch one day and don't want to watch something that is too long remember that Starlet claw
Best ever Sherlock Holmes was Douglas Wilmer!!!!!!!!❤❤❤1964-5:
Love this...
Basil Rathbone was the best Sherlock Holmes.
Absolutely
Thanks 😊
I personally do not like Peter Cushings as Holmes at all, but Watson is great in this series.
Jeremy Brett is Sherlock Holmes and always will be.
Basil Rathbone was, if you look at the time period, very very good. Legendary.
Watson played by Nigel Bruce was different and you should forget about the "real" Watson from the books and then you will like him. I do love him now. He make it lighter and balanced. Very funny guy.
Again, it was during world war two and if you look back its amazing what they did.
I also like Ian Richardson as Holmes but even better as Doctor Bell in the Murder Rooms series....
It is among the better interpretations of `A Study In Scarlet´, and of course #PeterCushing delivered!
Beginning at 4:20 that is the same scene that is in the David Lynch movie Mulholland Drive when Naomi Watts is auditioning. The lines are not exactly duplicated but pretty darn close.
Great
I like Mr. Cushing very much - but Jeremy Brett is THE Sherlock Holmes. No one compares to him in this role.
ruivog Basil Rathbone was the best Holmes end off
ruivog, I absolutely agree with you. Basil Rathbone and Peter Cushing, among others, played Holmes well, but Jeremy Brett WAS Sherlock Holmes.
@@jods1 Of course it's only an opinion. But... Greetings, Joaquim.
@fan girl Just an opinion, of course.
@fan girl ;)
He was great too, my favorite is the great Mouse Detective 🤣👍
I had to chuckle as the episode started as the dead young lady in the coffin was clearly breathing, and quite heavily also!
Awesome
Very good Holmes, like a stage play
this story is heartbreacking
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great video
excellent...ta very much.
A brief comment on the different styles of the actors playing Holmes. The differences in the way Brett and Cushing play Holmes are not absolute. Yes, Cushing plays the quintessential English gentleman, however if you examine the subtleties of the mannerisms there are similarities. They both describe the mannerisms of the academic / intellectual, with genius level intellect, moreover Brett's Holmes more accurately displays the manic depressive tendencies that Holmes was prone to. Anyone who has spent time in the presence of artistic geniuses will recognize these characteristics in the way Brett played Holmes. Therefore Jeremy Brett's portrayal is more likely the accurate, however I enjoy them all in different ways.
+sam stone Is there anything in the books where Sherlock does that 'r' the way he does played both by Brett and Cushing?
yes there different actors trying to bring what they have an think what s. holems is. along with what Watson brings . also the people that see them react the same. some feel it as some don't.
Brett is second to none
@@edram4051 Nothing in the books. However, the slightly rolled R was an approved element of elocution in those days, and very common. Victorian and Edwardian sound recordings display it. It was still heard in well-educated people, I remember, up to around the nineteen sixties.
Notice how the show itself is videotaped, but the opening title sequence is shot on film. The British so often did that sort of thing back in the 60's and 70's.
Brett is Holmes!
Execution is a euphemism. Murder is murder.
True
Awesome.
"you may fayar when reddeh, watson"
Its good..but lacks the back round music of a classic hammer production..suspense etc....
Another excellent movie from the 20th century based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work.
I just KNEW Cushing had to have been Holmes. How could they not? Still looking for the worst Holmes ever. Charlton Heston in Hound, BBC.
Cushing played Holmes in the 1959 version of "Hound of the Baskerville" with Christopher Lee in a supporting role.
Always good to see American actor Ed Bishop from UFO.
He was so good at reading Raymond Chandler.
Great!! 😊
They don't make movies like they use to do
in my opinion, the '60s is best decade of t.v.
The footsteps are louder than the voices, did the sound man have the mics all placed on the floor? 😂
She's breathing! You can still save her!
Peter Cushing can play a rock and be excellent
Enjoyable, low budget teleplay...I like Peter Cushing in the role of Holmes (can't speak for the other guy as Watson...he was okay). Yes, excellent vintage 1968 British t.v. production!
A Study in Scarlet is a problematic story to bring to the screen because more than half of it doesn't involve Watson and Holmes at all, takes place in the US, and honestly is a rather ineffective pulp story. However, the novel does contain the first meeting of Holmes and Watson, both in their mid- to late 20s at the time. That makes it difficult to cast the "traditional", older Holmes-Watson duo (like the one here); the alternative is that you skip that first meeting, thereby cutting out what is really the best part of the novel. Which is what happens here; the most crucial part is missing and Cushing's achievement notwithstanding everyone, including Hope, is at least 20 years too old in this film.
This is Grand Moff Tarkin!
Needed one final scene where Gragson and Lestrade are given credit in the papers for the solution of the murder and Holmes is shortchanged. Watson becomes incensed that Holmes should get credit and decides to write up the case and set the story straight. Holmes being fairly modest demures
Marvellous! Do you have the other episodes?
Peter Cushing in his 50's could catch the taxi but not the young navy sailor? Okay
And "What did you do, after you had made certain that you had made certain of nothing...?"
Doctor Holmes
When the show starts , Homes is setting down at the table , Then gets up and lights his pipe , And it look like a smoke stack on a Train. LOL.
why didnt they film everything this way? it is so clear and sharp, much better than movies which are sort of blurry.
because, aside from some of the inserts it was videotaped on PAL 625 colour, hence the high quality
I can’t say that I blame Jefferson for two lives for the life of the woman who he loved.
Cushing makes a hot Sherlock!
+Kristen Kropf OH Please --LOL Cushing HOT??? YOU JOKE!!!! LOL
No way! Cumberbatch is sexy hot!
Cushing was great as Van Helsing, but he lacked the spirit as Holmes...
basil Rathbone is the best
Brett is the greatest Holmes, I do love Peter Cushing though
The set people have moved the flat door from right to left. It was never before beside the two windows that was always a floor to ceiling bookcase to match the ipposite side of the windows 😂 l notice decor 😄
No one's mentioned Ed Bishop which is surprising.
The great Ed Bishop - 2001: A Space Odyssey and the sf tv series UFO.
Captain Blue asks Sherlock Holmes to help find Captain Black
Captain Scarlet was too busy studying. 😉