UnowPriceless
hyped garbage
Chirphymium
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
Abbigail Bush
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Philippa
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
tampa_troubadour
I have seen all the old film , and like them, but I got the 39 of these show a few years ago, and they are the best Holmes, on film, I watch them every winter, I love the portrayal, Holmes is not a total ass as he was when played by Basil Rathbone, and Watson is not a total idiot, btw, that Nigel Bruce, Watson made no since to me, I mean he is a military doctor, not a job a moron would have, Crawford is a more realistic Watson, plus he is Holmes protector many times, it is a friendship of two men that seem like family. I love the look of the show, and the look of the era it is set in, I enjoy the other actors, trying to spot those in multiple roles, there is a lot of that, very talented group, any one for cold lobster and tomatoes for breakfast?
didi-5
This series is a real find. First I spotted some episodes on Bonanza, and now have obtained the entire 39 episode series on DVD.Although my ideal Sherlock Holmes has to be Jeremy Brett in the long-running Granada TV series, this version with Ronald Howard and H Marion-Crawford is very good indeed. The level of repartee between the two is excellent and, although the writing and acting could be a little wooden at times, the short duration of episodes means the story moves along at a good pace, sometimes using a Conan Doyle tale as its base, sometimes not.Of course there were poor episodes but these were far outweighed by the superior ones. The series does show its age in the quality of prints available, but all episodes are more or less complete and are mostly free of jitter or hiss on the soundtrack.Now halfway through the episodes, I am looking forward to seeing the whole series and would recommend this series to all Sherlockians without hesitation.
moriarty1993
Sherlock Holmes is a very good TV series for two reasons:Ronald Howard and H.Maron Crawford.Ronald Howard is quite far the second best Holmes of the screen(next to Basil Rathbone,of course) but this show's Watson goes un-rivaled.Not a bungler like Nigel Bruce or a completely boring and pointless character like Ian Flemming.Rather,a very interesting character with a lot of personality.Howard's Holmes reminded me more A.Conan Doyle's character of the sixty published cases than anyone else.These scripts provide both suspense and humor,something that uaually doesn't work.My favorite episode of all time was probably "The Pennsilvania gun.It was the perfect Sherlock Holmes episode.Overall,this show is a superb representation Holmes and MUST NOT BE MISSED.
ca_palumbo
Until I saw this I always thought Basil Rathbone was the only actor that brought the correct intensity to this role (Jeremy Brett's pompous interpretation was putrid in its faithlessness to the original), but Ronald Howard's Sherlock Holmes is superb, even if the writers tampered with the character's quirks a bit (the original Homes was never absent-minded, and Watson, for that matter, was never as observant as this series would seem to indicate). I have to agree with another reviewer that I now want a copy of every episode, so enjoyable it was to see the two I have been lucky enough to view. I say this not only as a Rathbone fan but as a devotee who has read Conan Doyle's COMPLETE SHERLOCK HOLMES, all 56 short stories and four novels, at least a dozen times (and some stories at least twice that). Highly recommended for true fans of this dynamic duo.
