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Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
For me, the run-in to Christmas doesn't start until the Christmas Radio Times comes out - and 2009's is out today. In a sad, blokey way I still circle the programmes I fancy, cross-referencing with the Christmas TV Times. Highlights so far - Steve Coogan night, Oliver Postgate documentary, a new Day of the Triffids and Muppet Christmas Carol. But no Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films...
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MovingPictureBlog (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
As we await, with equal measures of eagerness and trepidation, Guy Ritchie's revisionist reboot of Sherlock Holmes , I thought it might be fun to take a nostalgic look back at Basil Rathbone 's distinctive portrayal of the Baker Street sleuth before seeing what Robert Downey Jr. has done with (or to) Arthur Conan Doyle's character . While you watch Rathbone do the deducting in...
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Another Pundit (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... bah-humbugged their way through the part, and another four Oscar nominees--John Carradine, Basil Rathbone, James Whitmore, and Sir Ralph Richardson--have given it a go, while a fifth, James Earl Jones, had to settle for merely narrating a version. Next on the agenda is the recent election in New York ’s 23rd Congressional District. That was the race in which ACORN’s favorite...
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Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Once again this is our first Christmas movie. We watched it this afternoon. We love this movie, and it continues to be one of our favorites. We're No Angels stars Humphrey Bogart , Peter Ustinov , Aldo Ray and Adolph (the deadly snake) as the titular angels. Basil Rathbone plays a wealthy businessman concerned only with profit against Leo G. Carroll who plays his bumbling, well-meaning...
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watch movies online for free full movie downloads (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
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Watch Free TV Online (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The secret weapon is a new bombsight which could hasten the outcome of World War II, and both the Allies and the Nazis are in a desperate race to secure it for themselves. Super sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his trusty assistant Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) are assigned to find the kidnapped scientist who developed the secret weapon, only to be foiled by Holmes' nemesis, the...
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The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
There’s a Sherlock Holmes fest going on this weekend at The Tainted Archive, where author-actor Gary Dobbs presents interviews, features, stories, and reviews.Some of the highlights thus far: a rundown of unlikely Holmes portrayers; Evan Lewis’ critique of Sherlock Holmes, Jr., starring Buster Keaton; a review of the 1944 Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce film, The Scarlet Claw;...
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The Belmont Club (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Although the world is fascinating place there are times when temporary escape is not only desirable but necessary. The princely sum of about eight dollars rented two movies about stirring events from another time and place. From 1938 there was the Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Olivia de Havilland and Basil Rathbone. [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The army service records of British soldiers who served during the first world war have been published online for the first time. Ancestry.co.uk said full military careers from 1914 to 1920 were included in the digitalised collection, averaging 16 pages per soldier, including medical data and service history. The records, numbering more than 2m, include details of famous names such as actor Basil...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... in 1919, was regularly absent without leave. Fellow actors also turn up in the online archive. Basil Rathbone enlisted in the London Scottish Regiment in 1916. The man who would be Sherlock Holmes in 14 films was described as having “dark” eyes and hair and a “fresh” complexion. Related LinksIn the middle of no man’s land, while scouting enemy positions, Rathbone gave a convincing...
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Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Great War records onlineTHE army service records of more than two million British soldiers who served during the First World War were published online for the first time today.Full military career details spanning 1914 to 1920 are included in the collection, which includes famous names such as Sherlock Holmes actor Basil Rathbone and the playwright Noel Coward. The full article contains...
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Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... including medical data and service history.The records include details of famous names such as Basil Rathbone, the actor who portrayed Sherlock Holmes in 14 films, and playwright Noel Coward.Details are also revealed of a soldier who enrolled under a false name to avoid being traced by his mother, solving a family mystery that had spanned 90 years.Ancestry.co.uk international content...
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Drinks Are On Me (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... Parker. Here are a few highlights from Life’s pages over the decades: “I am amazed,” reports Mrs. Basil Rathbone in the Sept. 11, 1939 issue, “how many of my guests now prefer wine”! The master of stage and screen is portrayed at a formal dinner with his wife and another couple – all enjoying both white AND red wines – poured by a servant, of course. In the Dec. 15, 1941 issue, “The...
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Ancestry.co.uk said full military careers from 1914 to 1920 were included in the collection, stretching to an average of 16 pages per soldier, including medical data and service history.The records include details of famous names such as Basil Rathbone, the actor who portrayed Sherlock Holmes in 14 films, and playwright Noel Coward.Details are also revealed of a soldier who enrolled under...
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The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Service records of WW1 Tommys online THE army service records of more than two million British soldiers who served during World War I were published online for the first time today.Ancestry.co.uk said full military careers from 1914 to 1920 were included in the collection, stretching to an average of 16 pages per soldier.The records include details of famous names such as Basil Rathbone,...
