Apurva Kumar Joshi yes My bro I agree wholesomely he is the quintessential Sherlock Holmes for me!

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Brett , pray you were a Beleiver in our Savior,Jesus Christ,, see you n Heaven kind Sir

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Good as he is he stands, forever, in the shadow of the incomparable Basil Rathbone.

Much as I admire Rathbone, I cannot agree. Jeremy Brett benefits a great deal from participating in canon-accurate plots and interacting with canon-accurate supporting characters. No fault of Rathbone’s of course. There are many points of comparison between their performances actually (Brett weaves Rathbone in with some of the younger Peter Cushing in a way), but Brett’s portrayal is ultimately more complete and better rounded. Rathbone was only ever allowed to do so much with the character, and he did as much as he could with it. I have pondered this comparison myself many times and at this point all I can come up with is that the Brett series and his portrayal are ultimately better, taken on the whole. But when I adjust for the advantages he had in comparison I think that Rathbone and he are equals.

One last tidbit on that. Check out The Red Circle. Holmes cries at the end. It shouldn’t work. Jeremy Brett makes it work. Rathbone never did that (again, not that he had the opportunity). On the strength of that alone I think Brett cannot be beaten. Equaled maybe, but not beaten. No one else, to my knowledge, has ever taken that chance with the character, let alone made it work.

@@deforeestwright2469 Jeremy Brett is far and away better than Basil Rathbone in portraying Holmes. He is Holmes incarnate! Moreover, the Brett interpretation of the great consulting detective is true to the canon whereas the Rathbone films brought Holmes into the 1940s. That is definitely not in keeping with the canon. Holmes was supposed to have been born in 1854. As such, he would have been 86 years old in 1940. If he were still alive at that late date, I seriously doubt he would have still been solving cases.

@@alanbobe-velez9716 I think Rathbone was very good in the two period-accurate films though (Hound and Adventures). He was against doing a modernized version if I remember right, but the studio wanted to capitalize on the war effort in the 40s and have Holmes fighting Nazis. I don't blame Rathbone for that. As I said, I think he did the best he could under heavier constraints than Jeremy Brett.

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Yet, they introduce him in this episode as Richard Bonneville, which puzzled me a little, when he appeared. Richard is one of his first names: Hugh, Richard Bonneville He obviously adopted Hugh later on.

u mean brett was died.

@@riz35 No, when he filmed this episode he was a very sick man, not dead yet.

@@EVALLOYD u replied me after a year thanks

@@riz35 Yes, I know but hadn't watched this series before now. Hope it didn't surprise you too much.

@@EVALLOYD yeah hahah any way r u from england ?

“Darlings”. . . I met him once at a party when I was three years old. I wish he had lasted longer so that I could get in touch with him and maybe correspond. Wouldn’t he be fun to write back and forth with, or meet with for coffee?

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