![]() The investment in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is evident in several ways. (Her fourth film that year was another Columbia ‘B’ picture, The Lady and the Mob released between Lone Wolf Spy Hunt and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.) See the ‘Ida Lupino Project page‘ on this blog.īasil Rathbone as Holmes in disguise as a music hall entertainer 1939 was a key year for 21 year-old Ida as she appeared in this and Lone Wolf Spy Hunt as well as her breakthrough ‘serious’ ‘A’ picture, The Light That Failed that opened on Christmas Eve. My interest in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is because the film featured Ida Lupino as the female lead. Eventually, Universal made a total of twelve films in which Rathbone and Bruce continued their characterisations up until 1946. ![]() Subsequently, Fox allowed their control over the rights to lapse for various reasons and they were taken up by Universal which began to produce a series of ‘B’ pictures with smaller production budgets in 1942. ![]() ![]() What I didn’t realise was that the first two films were ‘A’ releases with significant budgets made by 20th Century Fox in 1939. I didn’t really approve of updating the stories to include Nazis and ‘modern’ spies etc. I didn’t take too much notice of the Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson when I first came across them (on TV, I think). Rathbone, Lupino and Bruce in a promo shot
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