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Sherlock Holmes: Basil Rathbone: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: 1939 66 "Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape." George Taylor Charlton Heston: Planet of the Apes: 1968 67 "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart: Casablanca: 1942 68 "Here's Johnny!" [w] Jack ...
In The Getaway Blues by William Murray, the main character names all his racehorses after Gilbert and Sullivan characters and constantly quotes G&S. [131] Gilbert and Sullivan Set Me Free is a novel by Kathleen Karr based on a historical event in 1914, when the inmates of Sherborn Women's Prison in Massachusetts, U.S., put on a performance of ...
Sherlock Holmes (/ ˈ ʃ ɜːr l ɒ k ˈ h oʊ m z /) is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.Referring to himself as a "consulting detective" in his stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients ...
"The Adventure of the Crooked Man", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in July 1893, and in Harper's Weekly in the United States on 8 July 1893.
The episode aired on 23 February 1931, with Richard Gordon as Sherlock Holmes and Leigh Lovell as Dr. Watson. [5] Other dramatisations of the story, likely with the same script or a slightly altered script, also aired in the same series on 8 March 1933 (again with Gordon and Lovell) [ 6 ] and 18 April 1936 (with Gordon as Holmes and Harry West ...
Sherlock Holmes is the subject matter in the song "Sherlock Holmes" by American rock band Sparks, on their eleventh album Angst in My Pants. "Searchin'" (1957), a song recorded iby the R&B group The Coasters , makes reference to Holmes and other fictional detectives.
The original one-off production, which led to the later series, was released on DVD and VHS in the US in 2003, titled Dr. Bell and Mr. Doyle – The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes. In 2006, Stone Publishing House published a book, written by historian Dr. Robert Hume, aimed at schoolchildren titled Dr. Joseph Bell – the Original Sherlock ...
The story was adapted for an episode of the 1954–1955 television series Sherlock Holmes starring Ronald Howard as Holmes and Howard Marion Crawford as Watson. The episode was titled "The Case of the Shoeless Engineer" [ 6 ] and the story was altered so that Hatherley loses a shoe rather than his thumb, and Stark and his co-conspirator are ...