An ASTOUNDING performance by Brett, as usual. And what's more, to make it all the more remarkable, this is in the third and last series he did as Holmes, when his health was fading fast and he was in terrible shape... RIP Jeremy Brett- you live on in every fan of Holmes heart.
Jeremy Brett brought a new dimension to the role of Holmes which was really very good, and no doubt coloured by his own severe bouts of depression. He was an excellent actor and is underrated in my view.
Brett certainly portrayed Holmes as a logical thinking machine like Doyle portrayed him in the original stories although he also let his humanity show through especially concerning his friendship with Watson unlike any other actor who has ever portrayed Holmes IMHO and he is someone quite a large number of Holmes fans feel will always be the essential Sherlock Holmes.
Another reason I love RU-vid: Taken in the aggregate, this series showed the most true-to-Doyle adaptations, ever. I will salute the Rathbone/Bruce films for being extremely well-acted and -made, fun to watch (and, due, in no small part to WW II England being not that different from Victorian England), surprisingly faithful to the plots and the mood of the originals, even though they were set in what was then (with two exceptions) a contemporary time.
Agreed, I love the start of this episode..Holmes deductive reasoning at its finest...executed with the patience and grace of a leopard and the eloquence of the finest wordsmith... "........a small occurence perhaps, but only small I think, in the way a vibrating needle may signal an earthquake...."
I found this so touching! Sherlock Holmes lying asleep in the sofa. He mast have had a hard job just before. And then that other man is there, just to call his help for a new problem. Has Sherlock ever a moment done to work. He's not a machine that can work endlessly
At last, somebody values that detail as I do! Thanks for commenting on that. This scene at the beginning always touches me deeply because Jeremy always had the gift of humanizing Holmes. It is not the calculating machine that Watson describes to us in A Study in Scarlet or that we may see in other adaptations. We already know that back then Watson didn't know him well enough. However, in these series, Brett´s Holmes may be a genius, outstanding with his deductions and his sublime gestures, but at the same time, he lets us see his vulnerable side through Watson's eyes. I love that with Watson he always feels safe to lower his defenses and how Watson always protects him like when he want to give him one more moment to rest in private. They melt me. I'm still waiting for someone to write a one-shot fanfic about that scene... And the confidence and care with which Watson puts the card in Holmes´ breast pocket. It seems to me that those details are what speak wonders about their close relationship. We all need a friendship as intimate as theirs.
Jeremy Brett is the best Sherlock holmes!!!!! He has got everything to make the perfect Sherlock Holmes, his expressions, his language....Just Awesome!!!!!!!! Love Jeremy Brett!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I completely agree with you. Basil Rathbone's version was a good one, but I always felt that his Holmes was a bit too much of a gentleman. As though his solving of crimes was a sort of side-line to his life as an English gentlemen. Kinda like a more serious, British and more sober Thin Man character. Jeremy Brett embodied the Holmes character completely. The good and the bad of the man. By far at the top of the game.
You kidding me? I love it when he rolls his R's - it's fun hearing him roll his R's. And you are mistaken about the artist as well. His grandma was a sister of Vernet, his great-uncle and the French artist. I'm studying up in his family tree, so I know.
+Sitarya Why "confiscate" opium, when you could simply buy it in a shop? Narcotica were NOT illegal in victorian times and even in WWI soldiers got "care packages" from their families in the trenches.
@@donsylvester2372 really I know he died shortly after filming the last series and had wanted to do them all though I believe a study in Scarlet has never been made well not the proper book version anyway
Brett was a great Holmes. To me, he was far more compelling than any of the others I saw, Rathbone, Cushing, Williamson, etc. Having read all the Holmes stories, I'd go so far as to say Brett was even sort of better, more interesting, than the character imagined by Conan Doyle
Are we sure that, after Watson got married and moved away, he didn't actually buy the house and ask Mrs. Hudson to stay as (a first class) house keeper? We get to meet the two main characters when Watson and Holmes become flatmates sharing the rent, but as their careers take off, I'm not sure Holmes' relationship with 221B is mentioned much. Mrs. Hudson is there on Watson's arrival. After his faked death at the waterfall in Switzerland he is able to fake his death again at 221B after ... at least a year - suggesting that either he owned it and left rights for Mrs. Hudson to live there after his death or Mrs. Hudson new so little what she was about she forgot she needed to let the rooms. The former is more plausible. If he rented it from beyond the grave, his enemies would have rumbled his lie. Yes, Mrs. Hudson is gold. And essential. I used to rent and the agency never did anything like that much for me. No bacon and eggs, no late suppers, just adverts suggesting I extend my tenency. Bless them: "Money for nothing and your nothing at inflated prices" as Dire Straits put it.
@AGDIRGIA It is called "Libera Me" written by Patrick Gowers for the soundtrack and can be found on the soundtrack cd and on his choral and organ music cd.
3.23 Huxtable gets up thinking he's talking with Dr. Watson. I like how stunned he is ( he goes silent) when he finds himself face to face with Sherlock Holmes instead. 😀
I've loved Sherlock Holmes for many years. Loved the old movies with Basil Rathbone, before I read any of the stories. When I first saw Jeremy Brett play the character on P.B.S., I became inthralled with the character and would not miss an episode. I don't know much about you, Jeremy. Don't know what you're doing now. But you gave me an appreciation for this iconiclastic character that had surpassed me prior to your portrayal of him. You made Mr. Holmes come alive for me. You'll be hard to beat.
@Chef316 I love Basil Rathbone's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes. He's my second favorite after Jeremy Brett. I was never crazy about how Watson was depicted in the old films though. They made him look like kind of a buffoon, which he wasn't at all like in the books.
Agreed. But we'd both have to learn a new language. For example, I did not know that when Holmes says: "Do you, Watson, summon a cab", that was a request, not a question.
@CheeseGrater107 David Burke, the first Watson, left the show after "Adventures" in order to spend more time with his family. I believe he also personally recommended Edward Hardwicke to take over as Watson.
Do you know what overblown is? Livanov was memorable but Brett captured the essence of Doyle's character, besides I could never get used to having the whole Russian Symphonic Orchestra blasting away in 221B whenever Livanov appeared on the scene.
This is awesome!! Holmes is the coolest character ever! This series is much better than the movie by Downey, the movie is good though. Thanks a lot for uploading!
when I read the books, I can't help but imagine brett as holmes. I loved guy ritchie's version, and RDJ, but when doyle writes about holmes, that is brett
I disagree about Bruce: An amiable bumbler in most of them (Watson was anything but), he was absolutely perfect in "The Hound of the Baskervilles," the middle third of which is his, and exactly as Doyle portrayed him.
Brett is better, because he was allowed to show the weaknesses of Sherlock Holmes AND the Watson to Rathbone is forced to be an idiot AND the Rathbone movies were american ... which screwed up the stories completely.
Thanks for the info. I did not know that these actors had died. They created something that will live forever. Have they done anything else I should be looking for?
Cushing was memorable as was Rathbone in his own way although Nigel Bruce will likely never be surpassed as the worst Watson ever. As for Brett he brought a humanity to Doyle's detective and came closer to capturing him than just about anyone else.
@SuperJneel I remember once watching My Fair Lady ( from 1964!) and seeing a young Jeremy Brett in that film. Other than that, I don't really know. Why don't you google their names or look them up on Wikipedia. Btw- Did you know that Edward Hardwicke's father was the great British actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke (The Ten Commandments, King Solomon's Mines, The Winslow Boy, narrator for the original War O f The Worlds and The Picture Of Dorian Gray, etc.)?
I think this is a fair interpretation - as close to the books as you can get. And yes, BBC dramatizations keep closely to the words and it makes it more palatable. Never watch a movie that is 'based on the bestseller, XXXX' They are never as satisfying as the real thing...
What is this upperclass-twitty thingy? I think when he deal with this upperclass smart-asspish like the duke and this headmaster - he acts accordingly. I think he is wise and think objectively when he is cracking a case. Jeremy Brett give Holmes a personality - shows his weakness and strength and make him human at least for me to relate to him which I can't find in the book.
@ ForeverTheBeat7..I respectfully disagree with the RDJ/Jude Law version. I think it was a good movie, just lousy Holmes. Agreed on Mr. Brett however. Regards
Livanov? well he was good although I'll always take Brett over him as far as a fidelity to Doyle's character goes and capturing his essence, plus having the whole Russian Symphonic Orchestra blasting away whenever Livanov entered 221B never really worked for me..
@kitzlaihel In 1885 (I think that's about when the stories were set) it would equal just over 500,000 pounds today ($US740,000). A lot of money in other words.
God, Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes is definitely one of those ten real-or-fictitious people I would invite to my dinner party- right up there with Jesus Christ and Woody Allen!
I especially like the boy's Choir,they sang Holmes' drama Theme in vibration,with middle Age's feeling! About the show!It is not allowable to talk so loudly as Jeremy as Holmes in the school labby!
