Word: basil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hound of the Baskervilles (Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce; TIME, April...
...Hound of the Baskervilles (Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce; TIME, April...
Died. Sir Basil Home Thomson, 77, onetime Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard), onetime bigwig in the British secret service; suddenly; in London. Sir Basil dearly loved to read & write detective stories, led an adventuresome life himself. Son of a late Archbishop of York, he was successively a rancher in Iowa, Prime Minister of Tonga (Friendly Islands), Governor of Great Britain's famed Dartmoor Prison. Highspot of his career; tracking down Mata Hari, whom he described as a dowdy, middle-aged woman devoid of charm...
...Twentieth Century-Fox) exhibits the skyscraper profile of Basil Rathbone becomingly topped by the fore & aft cupola of fiction's most famed detective. Unlike his pipsqueak present-day imitators, who solve crimes while airing their wives' dogs, getting drunk or talking pidgin English, Sherlock Holmes was a literate patrician who always took his work seriously, permitting himself no distractions except an occasional shot of morphine when he was bored. For the Hays Production Code, according to which "the drug traffic should not be presented in any form," Basil Rathbone exhibits proper disdain. But before he asks Watson (Nigel...
...impersonators of Sherlock Holmes must stand comparison with William Gillette, who created the role on the stage. Basil Rathbone acquits himself fully as creditably as John Barrymore, his cinema predecessor. The only serious bit of miscasting in The Hound of the Baskervilles is in the title role. The proper selection, obviously, would have been a calf-sized Norwegian elkhound; equipped with fright wig and false fangs. Instead, Associate Producer Gene Markey, perhaps in the delightful confusion attendant on his recent marriage to Hedy Lamarr, put his O.K. on a friendly old Great Dane named Chief, who, despite all his yelpings...