An edition of The Sherlock Holmes File (1976)

The Sherlock Holmes file

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An edition of The Sherlock Holmes File (1976)

The Sherlock Holmes file

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The figure in deerstalker and Inverness cape, smoking a calabash pipe and repeating "Elementary, my dear Watson," is familiar to all. Yet none of the features of this image of Sherlock Holmes are to be found in Conan Doyle, they have been introduced by artists who illustrated the stories and actors who played the part.

Some of the artistic and theatrical interpretations of Sherlock Holmes and his world were extraordinarily accurate; others were interesting misrepresentations of the original character. Here is a vivid demonstration of the great variety of imaginative ways that Sherlock Holmes has been seen in the entertainment media - films, the stage, television - and commercially - comics, cereal boxes, cigarette advertising, games, and so forth. Rare and hitherto unpublished posters, advertisements, and stills have been included.

Here is a sampling of the fascinating material to be found in this largest picture gallery of Holmes ever assembled:
"Which of You Is Holmes": a chapter on impersonators, comprising over twenty stage and at least thirty screen and television Holmeses, which includes comments from the actors on the problems of portraying him. "I want to make money on 'Holmes' quick, so as to be through with it," William Gillette is quoted as saying, and Alan Wheatley thought, "In my opinion he just seemed to be an insufferable prig," while today's Robert Stephens has said, "When I did it, it was more melancholic, more disillusioned."
An amazing collection of more than seventy pictures of Holmes in and out of disguise, in and out of Baker Street, with and without Watson, and particularly when tackling that demoniac dog in The Hound of the Baskervilles (a comparison of the seven film and two television adaptations of this best-known Sherlock Holmes story)
"Furnished Rooms to Let" shows and describes the various settings used in the dramatizations, both interiors of the famous consulting room and exteriors of Baker Street: including the versions of the confrontation there between the two Master Minds

The file even has a firsthand account of that unique expedition of 1968 when Holmes, Watson, and a handful of characters from the adventures toiled through Switzerland to re-enact the Holmes-Moriarty death struggle at the Reichenbach Falls.

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Publisher
David & Charles
Language
English
Pages
168

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Sherlock Holmes File
January 13, 1999, Random House Value Publishing
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The Sherlock Holmes file
1976, David & Charles
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The Sherlock Holmes file
1976, C. N. Potter : distributed by Crown Publishers
in English - 1st American ed.
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The Sherlock Holmes File
1976, Clarkson N. Potter
Hardcover in English - 1st American ed.

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Edition Notes

"Appendix: A check list of appearances of Sherlock Holmes ... and Dr. Watson ... in the various entertainment media": p. 158-164.
Includes index.

Published in
Newton Abbot [Eng.]

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/12
Library of Congress
PR4624 .P6 1976b, PR4624.P6 1976b

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Pagination
168 p. :
Number of pages
168

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4589502M
ISBN 10
0715370332
LCCN
77351547
Library Thing
710323
Goodreads
6121356

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