thenorwoodbuilder:

SHERLOCK HOLMES & DR. JOHN WATSON - The greatest friendship in history

• As drawn by Sidney Paget
• As played by Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce (1939-1946)
• As played by Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke (1984-1994 and 1986-1994)
• As played by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman (2010-2011)
• As played by Vasily Livanov and Vitaly Solomin (1979-1986)
• As played by Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law (2009 and 2011)
• As played by Nicholas Rowe and Alan Cox (1985)
• As played by Robert Stephens and Colin Blakely (1970)
• As played by Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley (1988)
• As played by Christopher Plummer and James Mason (1979)

No hope of completeness, here…

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cinemaocd:

It’s hard to refrain from touching the tweed.

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Why is it always the hat?

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thatgirl:

Basil Rathbone, bedecked in tweed.

bloodcolossus:

Sure, this is just a drop in the bucket, but everybody?  The picture above is from They Might Be Giants, a movie from 1971.  It’s a movie with a female Dr. Watson.  Yes, the movie is about a delusional man who thinks he’s Sherlock Holmes, but fans should like the quirky take on the master detective and the very real idea that our minds bring us the ultimate truth.  

So yeah, the American remake of Sherlock won’t be as good or as unique or even fit your worldview of what a Sherlock TV show should be.   It’s on the first show this happened too (ugh, Viva Laughlin) and I’m sure it won’t be the last.  But a Lady Watson can be amazing, and we all need to remember that “If we never looked at things and thought of what they might be, why, we’d all still be out there in the tall grass with the apes.”

“Rathbone presented an ideal image of Holmes: he was tall - carrying himself with an erect guardsman-like bearing - with an extraordinary angular face, long aquiline nose, and a defiant jawline. His voice was sharp and incisive, yet dark with a majestic quality that betrayed his stage training. This was a Holmes who was not only alert and intellectually superior, but a daring man of action also. These two halves of the character had never before been so evenly balanced on screen.

— David Stuart Davies, Starring Sherlock Holmes.

And he clothed himself in tweed.  Acres and acres of tweed. 

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darkest-alchemy:

shikari-moran:

Paul Anderson Official Sherlock Holmes Interview

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*pets him*

What’s with the giant bullets behind him????

averyrevealing10secs:

thegestianpoet:

sherlockismyholmesboy:

findingsherlock:

January 31st, 1953  from the Illustrated London News

No you haven’t been smoking opium (I hope), that is a Sherlock Holmes ballet you are seeing … beautiful isn’t it?

Watson’s mustache here is uniquely alarming.

I think I just broke a rib from laughing.

JESUS CHRIST HOLMES AND WATSON

WHAT ARE YOU DOING

OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS MADCAP BRILLIANCE 

that close-up is brilliant.

This might be the world’s first and ONLY all tweed ballet. 

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thebrigadiersmoustache:

Holmes and Watson being casually adorable.

Happy Valentines Day from Oh My Tweedy Steed!

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