#but like Basil Rathbone

[fogdraws]

I watched Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes's Hounds Of Baskerville and it was great!!! So I, of course, made fanart ❤️ (I took, as always, a bunch of creative liberties while drawing them)

[elinordash]

THE WOMAN IN GREEN (1945) Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone and Peter Lorre

The Comedy of Terrors (1963) // dir. Jacques Tourneur

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[milquetoast27]

RATHBONE AND BRUCE RENAISSANCE!!!! please enjoy some Clips And Music !!!

[lisahafey]

Saw a poster for Captain Blood with Errol Flynn having a sword fight on a beach with Basil Rathbone, and realised this must be made.

[sssrha]

bruh i tried to watch some of the basil rathbone sherlock holmes movies but i genuinely could not get more than half an hour into any of them because of how they depicted john watson.

i've consumed and enjoyed content where watson is a bit bumbling but this is the first time i've encountered him seeming genuinely idiotic.

i can't even-

[gilgamushroom]

So you're telling me.... in Black Pete.... people keep asking after a "Basil" of "Baker Street"

[thymelessink]

Sometimes I think about Conrad Veidt and Basil Rathbone.

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

222. The Comedy Of Terrors (1963)

[cantsayidont]

Controversial media takes of various kinds:

MAD MEN is not a good show. It *could* have been a good show, but it's constantly kneecapped by the showrunners' uncertainty about whether they want to critique Don Draper or fellate him (with the show inevitably opting for the latter) and their determination to sideline the other characters (who are often more interesting, and sometime played by actors less insufferable than Jon Hamm, whom I hate) in favor of Don. The longer the show goes on, the less it knows what to do with the period events it references other than to have the characters nod solemnly at them, it only intermittently remembers that Jewish people and people of color exist (and it never actually cares), and its contempt for its female characters (whose story the show really should have been) becomes more and more troubling. Also, a big chunk of the premise is ripped off rather shamelessly from the popular Sloan Wilson novel THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT (which had an indifferent film adaptation starring Gregory Peck).

SOME LIKE IT HOT is not pioneering Queer Representation, it's a series of offensive homophobic jokes and transphobic Men in Dresses gags by a notoriously mean-spirited writer-director who thought that shit was just hilarious, starring two of my least favorite American male stars of the period. It's also not funny at all unless you share Wilder's chaser-transphobe predilections. If you're LGBT and you love this awful movie, I certainly can't stop you, but understand that Billy Wilder was very definitely laughing at you, and ask yourself if you're okay with that.

Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce were perfectly fine as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson; some of the Universal Holmes films are actually quite good despite their modest budgets; and having Bruce play Watson as a comic-relief buffoon was an eminently reasonable creative decision because it gave Watson something to do onscreen other than be constantly awed at Holmes' brilliance, which is boring and reduces the actor to a glorified prop.

The Jeremy Brett Holmes TV series of the eighties is mid at best: Brett is not the definitive Holmes; his decision to play Holmes as an icy misanthrope (which Holmes is not in the canon) makes those versions frequently unpleasant to watch; and any time the show's writers try to expand upon the Doyle stories, they inevitably go very wrong. I can put on any of the Rathbone/Bruce movies, even the bad ones, and find it at least agreeable background noise, but the thought of revisiting the Granada show makes me grimace.

The Stephen Sommers MUMMY movies with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are incredibly racist — as are all iterations of that franchise, including the 1932 Karloff film and the more recent, wretched Alex Kurtzman iteration with Tom Cruise and Sofia Boutella — which really undermines their entertainment value even as Big Stupid Popcorn Fun, no matter how how hot you thought Fraser and Weisz were. THE MUMMY (1999) was startlingly racist by the standards of 25 years ago and it has not aged well.

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH is incredibly offensive transmisogynistic hackwork and the attempts to position it as a modern-day ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Participatory Event speak volumes about what y'all actually take from the latter.

[mrcowboytoyou]

why are there two movies called "The Black Cat" made within 7 years of each other that BOTH star Bela Lugosi as a guy with a 'V' name... are yoU KIDDING ME. I kept waiting for Boris Karloff to show up and now I feel like an idiot...

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone -

The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

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[cursemewithyourkiss]

Why are my favourite actors always British men with great speaking voices and the ability to do insanely subtle facial acting

[figureinthedistance]

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ig its ok if ppl arent that into mystery as a genre in general but something so fundamentally wrong abt someones favourite detective being a character who has only solved 2 mysteries. thats pathetic. compared to poirot? compared to columbo? they put in YEARS. we watched peter falk go grey solving murders. benoit is pathetic.