The Best Sherlock Holmes adaptation on film
Posted: Wed 08 Mar, 2023, 9:11 pm
We accidentaly discovered this series on tubi while looking up something else and we've been watching and y'all it is the BEST
It's old, and low-budget, and black & white, and the recording quality on some of the episodes by the time they digitized them is awful, but it has THE BEST characterization of Holmes and the Holmes-Watson dynamic that I have ever seen in movies or television.
I'd have to write a whole essay to explain in depth why this adaptation is so good, but if you pop over to the wikipedia page and read the interview quotes in the Casting section, you'll get a decent sense of it. (The short of it is that the primary director/producer, Sheldon Reynolds, had an excellent appreciation of the best parts of the stories, and everything followed from there.)
When we're done with it, I'm going to track down the 1980 not-exactly-remake by the same producer-director (if I can) and compare.
It's old, and low-budget, and black & white, and the recording quality on some of the episodes by the time they digitized them is awful, but it has THE BEST characterization of Holmes and the Holmes-Watson dynamic that I have ever seen in movies or television.
I'd have to write a whole essay to explain in depth why this adaptation is so good, but if you pop over to the wikipedia page and read the interview quotes in the Casting section, you'll get a decent sense of it. (The short of it is that the primary director/producer, Sheldon Reynolds, had an excellent appreciation of the best parts of the stories, and everything followed from there.)
When we're done with it, I'm going to track down the 1980 not-exactly-remake by the same producer-director (if I can) and compare.