Yet Another Sherlock Holmes Entry

Not that I want this to be thought of only as a Holmes trivia site, but I did find one item of such relevance to be worth mentioning.

In the early to mid 1940s, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce starred together in 14 consecutive 'Sherlock Holmes' films, most directed by Roy William Neill. The first two - the first being 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' - were suitably set in the late Victorian/Edwardian era. Mysteriously, then, all the remaining 12 films moved to a 1940s setting in WW II London.

Each film was an interesting, non-canonical, mashup of plot points from assorted Doyle short stories. One of the last ones, entitled 'Sherlock Holmes in Washington' (1943), has Holmes saying this to Watson - the quote is somewhat paraphrased from 'A Study In Scarlet':

I shall write a monograph someday on the noxious habit of accumulating useless trivia.

Well, that makes me feel special.


Rich