Jeremy Brett

[Redbeard]

Pawse, I agree.  I liked David Hardwicke too.  And yes I can see the twinkling in his eyes!  Good description.  He was a great Watson. 

Basil Rathbone / Nigel Bruce...I just have no recollection of. Chances are I caught them at some time over the years (especially since my brother was a huge Sherlock Holmes fan growing up) but I just don't remember.  However, in my hiatus induced desperation I'm sure I will track them down at some point over the next year and a half and give them a watch.

I don't think they will replace Benedict/Martin and Jeremy/David though. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Back to the Brett-Hardwicke stage play for just a moment -- lest anyone think it's a more-or-less complete adaptation of "Study in Scarlet," it's not.  It does start out quoting a good bit from that novel, as Holmes and Watson meet.  But then it borrows from other stories and ends up putting an interesting twist on them.

 

I should add that the twist is not entirely original with Jeremy Paul (who wrote the script), but he's put his own extra twist on top of a twist that I've seen elsewhere (including Sherlock, in a way).

 

[Redbeard]

Now that sounds intriguing! 

[Carol the Dabbler]

I do hope that a video of this play turns up eventually.  Apparently the only visual we have at present is the sketch on the cover of the script (though that's unfortunately not the cover shown on Amazon), which I take to be Hardwicke and Brett as Watson and Holmes.  If so, then Hardwicke is playing an older Watson than the one we see in the television episodes, because he's not wearing the toupee.  (Or is it an illustration from one of the Holmes books?  All those Holmeses and Watsons do bear a certain resemblance to one another.)

 

Anyhow, since this play was first mentioned on a previous page, I'll repeat the links to the audio recording (free download) and the script (for sale on Amazon).

 

[Pawse]

Pawse, I agree. I liked David Hardwicke too. And yes I can see the twinkling in his eyes! Good description. He was a great Watson.

Basil Rathbone / Nigel Bruce...I just have no recollection of. Chances are I caught them at some time over the years (especially since my brother was a huge Sherlock Holmes fan growing up) but I just don't remember. However, in my hiatus induced desperation I'm sure I will track them down at some point over the next year and a half and give them a watch.

I don't think they will replace Benedict/Martin and Jeremy/David though.

I've been getting into the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce version: I absolutely love them!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Well, Moftiss did say that Rathbone and Bruce were sort of their favorites.

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

I didn't mean to imply that the play was strictly "A Study in Scarlet"  I guess I was excited that at least we got Jeremy Brett's Holmes close to it....even if a few quotes. More then what we got to in the Granada series.

[Pawse]

Am I allowed to post attachments of my favorite Jeremy as Sherlock pics?

[Caya]

Why shouldn't you be? Fire away .

[Pawse]

Jeremy

[Pawse]

Hah..!

[Pawse]

Smouldering Jeremy!

[Pawse]

*Le sigh...*

[Pawse]

My avatar!

[Carol the Dabbler]

D'you have any photos of Brett as Holmes as the plumber in "Milverton"?  I'm always amazed by how different he looks -- sorta cuddly!

 

[Pawse]

D'you have any photos of Brett as Holmes as the plumber in "Milverton"? I'm always amazed by how different he looks -- sorta cuddly!

Unfortunately not... But he did look adorable..!

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Here are some shots of Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes in disguise in the Granada's version of "The Master Blackmailer".  The last shot is of his "fake" engagement to Milverton's maid.

 

 

 

              

[Carol the Dabbler]

Just found a couple of Brett-the-plumber pix here -- unfortunately he's got his cap on in both, so we can't see his tousled hair. 

 

[Pawse]

Here he is!

 

 

[Ruthyone]

I recently read 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' and discovered the version done by Jeremy Brett on tv followed the story faithfully.

 

The story couldn't have been done in this century the same way but shows how the Conan Doyle stories can be modernised so successfully.

 

 

[Convict13]

I just finished watching Jeremy in An Ideal Husband.  It was a nice interpretation of the play, with a stellar cast. 

[Ruthyone]

He was a really gifted actor

[Pawse]

Le sigh......!

[Pawse]

On this day,
the 3rd of November, 1933,
Jeremy Brett was born.
The greatest actor ever to
grace the screen and stage,
this versatile man had such an
amazing ability to project himself.

Jeremy, though you are gone
from our lives, you are
not forgotten.
Your legacy is in our hearts.

Jeremy, permit me to say that
I love you and Happy Birthday.



(I have to admit that as I was writing this, I had tears in my eyes.)

[joanneta1]

I waded through this thread and found it absolutely riveting. Although we are all following the modern version and wait for each new series to outdo the previous, which is not always the case, vid. Radio Times recent vote, with which I almost entirely agree, Jeremy Brett brought to the role the exact same otherworldliness that Benedict has been working so hard to keep up in the new version. Talk about the steepled fingers! When I took out the Speckled Band to check up on some things because of a speculation I needed to build up, I saw how they could be used expressively, and not statically, as Benedict uses them. And when Messers. Moffat and Gatiss talk about the more serious versions needing to have the cobwebs blown away from them because Sherlock and John are a comedy double act, they should bear in mind the sheer exuberance of The Second Stain! There, Brett does some wonderful things with his hands, as well. Simply brilliant!