Sherlock Holmes On Screen

by Alan Barnes

Description by OLDIES.com:

Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective Sherlock Holmes has appeared on screen more times than any other fictional character. Sherlock Holmes On Screen surveys over a century's worth of his exploits in film and television, from the silent era to the present day.

While actors Peter Cushing, Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett have all been praised for their portrayals of Holmes, Sherlock Holmes On Screen casts new light on their performances and introduces many less familiar Sherlocks, too -- including John Cleese, Roger Moore and Larry Hagman!

Illustrated with rare archive pictures throughout, Sherlock Holmes On Screen is now updated with entries on the BBC's third version of The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Professor Moriarty's appearance in The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, two more in the Matt Frewer series and the absinthe-addled detective of the iconoclastic TV movie Sherlock. Expanded coverage of the Holmeses from Soviet Russia and 1930s Germany, among others, makes this revised edition the most comprehensive Holmes filmography ever published.