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Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 period mystery action film starring Robert Downey Jr. as the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey, and Dan Lin.
Sherlock Holmes (a.k.a. Conan Doyle's Master Detective Sherlock Holmes [1] [2]) is a 1932 American pre-Code film starring Clive Brook as the eponymous London detective. [1] The movie is based on the successful stage play Sherlock Holmes by William Gillette, in turn based on the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, and was directed by William K. Howard for the Fox Film Corporation.
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The writer David Stuart Davies concluded that Basil Rathbone was "the actor who has come closest to creating the definitive Sherlock Holmes on screen", also describing the choice as "inspired". [19] The historian Alan Barnes agrees, and wrote that "Rathbone was Sherlock Holmes". [20]
Young Sherlock Holmes, a film about Sherlock Holmes's early adventures as a teenager, was released in 1985. [29] In 1986 Walt Disney released The Great Mouse Detective, an animated animal film based on the tradition of Sherlock Holmes. In 1988, Michael Caine starred as Sherlock Holmes, with Ben Kingsley as Doctor Watson, in Without a Clue.
The film, then under the working title of Sherlock Holmes 2, was reported to be influenced by Conan Doyle's "The Final Problem". [5] While the film took place a year after the events of the first film, [5] Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows was intended to be a stand-alone film that did not require knowledge of the previous movie. [5]
Wontner's age, fifty-nine by this time, was too difficult to hide so Holmes is on the verge of retiring. [6] [7] The film is a very accurate [6] adaptation of The Valley of Fear. [7] The film received rave reviews [7] which would lead to one final film. In 1937, Wontner's final Holmes film, Silver Blaze, was released in Britain.
Sherlock Holmes was released on DVD on January 26, 2010, a month after the similarly-titled Guy Ritchie film. The DVD features the full-length film and extras like a making-of feature called Exile on Baker Street: A Behind-the-scenes look at Sherlock Holmes, the official trailer and bloopers from filming. [2]