The popular image of Sherlock Holmes in any given period derives as much from the actors who portrayed the detective as it does from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories and Sidney Paget's famous illustrations. William Gillette's stage performances defined the classic Holmes in the early 20th century, in the 1940s, Basil Rathbone's authoritative on-screen depiction cast a very long shadow. Peter Cushing offered an edgy, driven Holmes for the 1960s; Jeremy Brett upped the ante in the '80s and '90s with his full ...
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The popular image of Sherlock Holmes in any given period derives as much from the actors who portrayed the detective as it does from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories and Sidney Paget's famous illustrations. William Gillette's stage performances defined the classic Holmes in the early 20th century, in the 1940s, Basil Rathbone's authoritative on-screen depiction cast a very long shadow. Peter Cushing offered an edgy, driven Holmes for the 1960s; Jeremy Brett upped the ante in the '80s and '90s with his full-immersion portrayal of a manic-depressive genius; and more recently Robert Downey Jr. has given the character a distinct swagger. Every era has had the Sherlock it wanted or needed--except the 1970s. In that wild decade, all bets were off... The nine Sherlock Holmes films made in the '70s re-imagine the detective in starkly divergent ways, from the boldly inventive to the flat-out irreverent. Holmes is variously portrayed as gay (Robert Stephens), crazy (George C. Scott), pompous (Stewart Granger), petulant (Gene Wilder), vulnerable (Nicol Williamson), camp (Roger Moore) wrong-headed (John Cleese), silly (Peter Cook), and socially conscious (Christopher Plummer), yet all these films contribute in their own way to casting new light on the legend. In Sherlock in the Seventies, Derham Groves offers an entertaining and absorbing account of these films, packed with shrewd analysis and insights, background details, numerous illustrations, and behind-the-scenes anecdotes.
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