Sherlock Holmes- The Dying Detective Part 1

[@terriwarner8682]

As a comment below noted, we fell in love with Jeremy Brett as Homes, David Suchet as Poirot and Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple as well as other Miss Marple actresses, our dear best friends, always with us in our hearts and, for a short while in these wonderful episodes. Thank you!

[@rabiulislam1481]

Mr Sherlock Holmes your acting is mind blowing

[@apurvakmr]

Brett hasn't left us. he lives forever in the hearts of his admirers.

[@kitwalker2103]

Apurva Kumar Joshi yes My bro I agree wholesomely he is the quintessential Sherlock Holmes for me!

[@carlfernandes1275]

I agree Carl Fernandes from Bandra West, Mumbai, Maharashtra

[@marantz7783]

Brett , pray you were a Beleiver in our Savior,Jesus Christ,, see you n Heaven kind Sir

[@victoriasmith2512]

I saw an interview with mr Brett,and the whole time I wanted to breath for him.he smoked 60 a day.its so sad because I adored him.he will always be Holmes.

[@karen-xr5nx]

No one to compare! Gone a while and still missed!

[@jankriplaysmc2356]

Mr Jeremy Brett! El maestro. Holy holy holy! What an actor. What a Sherlock Holmes actor. Greatest ever.

[@DokktorDeth]

Good as he is he stands, forever, in the shadow of the incomparable Basil Rathbone.

[@deforeestwright2469]

Much as I admire Rathbone, I cannot agree. Jeremy Brett benefits a great deal from participating in canon-accurate plots and interacting with canon-accurate supporting characters. No fault of Rathbone’s of course. There are many points of comparison between their performances actually (Brett weaves Rathbone in with some of the younger Peter Cushing in a way), but Brett’s portrayal is ultimately more complete and better rounded. Rathbone was only ever allowed to do so much with the character, and he did as much as he could with it. I have pondered this comparison myself many times and at this point all I can come up with is that the Brett series and his portrayal are ultimately better, taken on the whole. But when I adjust for the advantages he had in comparison I think that Rathbone and he are equals.

[@deforeestwright2469]

One last tidbit on that. Check out The Red Circle. Holmes cries at the end. It shouldn’t work. Jeremy Brett makes it work. Rathbone never did that (again, not that he had the opportunity). On the strength of that alone I think Brett cannot be beaten. Equaled maybe, but not beaten. No one else, to my knowledge, has ever taken that chance with the character, let alone made it work.

[@alanbobe-velez9716]

@@deforeestwright2469 Jeremy Brett is far and away better than Basil Rathbone in portraying Holmes. He is Holmes incarnate! Moreover, the Brett interpretation of the great consulting detective is true to the canon whereas the Rathbone films brought Holmes into the 1940s. That is definitely not in keeping with the canon. Holmes was supposed to have been born in 1854. As such, he would have been 86 years old in 1940. If he were still alive at that late date, I seriously doubt he would have still been solving cases.

[@deforeestwright2469]

@@alanbobe-velez9716 I think Rathbone was very good in the two period-accurate films though (Hound and Adventures). He was against doing a modernized version if I remember right, but the studio wanted to capitalize on the war effort in the 40s and have Holmes fighting Nazis. I don't blame Rathbone for that. As I said, I think he did the best he could under heavier constraints than Jeremy Brett.

[@valenciacuttriss4259]

Watching this for the second time.He is the best Sherlock l have seen.

[@jyotirmayeepanda3644]

Thank you so much for uploading

[@peggyadams5130]

Thank you so much gir sll theze Jeremy Brett, Sherlock Holmes. I love them Fo you know if there is anyway yo get a complete DVD set of these? I sure would like to have thst.

[@peggyadams5130]

Amazon

[@apurvakmr]

a perfect pic for good channel. Brett, the eternal Holmes.

[@davidenespana]

"From then on the difference in Brett's appearance slowly became more noticeable as the series developed. One of the side effects of the lithium tablets was fluid retention. Brett began to look and act differently. The drugs were slowing him down; he was putting on weight and retaining water.[27] " -Wikipedia

[@victoriasmith2512]

davidenespana heart disease retains water to.

[@leescott8506]

A 30yr old Hugh Bonneville ... Lord Grantham of Downton Abbey... as Victor. This is one of my fave ep. Thanks for uploading.

[@EVALLOYD]

Yet, they introduce him in this episode as Richard Bonneville, which puzzled me a little, when he appeared. Richard is one of his first names: Hugh, Richard Bonneville He obviously adopted Hugh later on.

[@jehadjarrar1075]

How amazing that we fell in love with fictional character as Holmes and Poirot and miss Marpel.

[@nicolebarnes581]

Loveable!!!

[@floridafyme]

I agree: Rathbone and Brett,by far.Black and white does provide a special atmosphere.

[@tengizbirbachadze6138]

Thanks for uploading ❤

[@sandeepmenon8328]

So fantastic!

[@amel6206]

Appearances by very young Susannah Harker & Richard Bonneville. I can barely stand to watch Jeremy Brett here. I keep getting flashes of his face during his performance as Freddy Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady in the street outside the professor's residence with Audrey Hepburn.

[@artandminis7777]

OMG!!! Downton Abbey guy. He was like 5!!!

[@davidenespana]

"According to Edward Hardwicke, Brett ...smoked up to 60 cigarettes a day, which "didn't help his health." [28] He also had heart troubles. His heart was twice the normal size,[29] he would have difficulties breathing and would need an oxygen mask on the set. "But, darlings, the show must go on", was his only comment. [30]"

[@deforeestwright2469]

“Darlings”. . . I met him once at a party when I was three years old. I wish he had lasted longer so that I could get in touch with him and maybe correspond. Wouldn’t he be fun to write back and forth with, or meet with for coffee?

[@swayzietimpson2994]

That breaks my heart ten times over

[@hannelevirtaniemi2361]

This episode is tragically ironic, considering that Mr. Brett was a dying man during the time it was filmed.....

[@riz35]

u mean brett was died.

[@EVALLOYD]

@@riz35 No, when he filmed this episode he was a very sick man, not dead yet.

[@riz35]

@@EVALLOYD u replied me after a year thanks

[@EVALLOYD]

@@riz35 Yes, I know but hadn't watched this series before now. Hope it didn't surprise you too much.

[@riz35]

@@EVALLOYD yeah hahah any way r u from england ?

[@alexanderdelacruz9249]

This lady is so beautiful.

[@humbertojimmy]

Sherlock is a little uncomfortable with the whole opium dangers lecture... lol. He's quite a user himself.

[@MrEvan312]

@HardBoiledDetective Please do, they are awesome, Basil rocks as Sherlock

[@jmp01a24]

So this time Sherlock has to help a client whos husband is "chasing the dragon". Very current given the opiate epedemic rampant in the west. Overseas as on the continent.

[@m.a.3322]

Hugh Bonneville?!?!?!

[@shirleyslater4595]

60 a day wow that's some smoking

[@765kvline]

Too bad Susannah Harker, crying: "Daddy," is ultimately thrown off the Roof Garden of the House of Parliament by Ian Richardson as the Chief Whip and Jonathan Hyde suffers the indignity of leaving on the last lifeboat of the Titanic. Here we see them both before all that . . . unpleasantness . . . upsets them.

[@brianwinters5434]

Brett is a better Holmes than Rathbone

[@joanmchugh9153]

He looks just like his brother Hugh Bonniville.

[@michaelsamuels9901]

Richard or Hugh Bonneville ?????

[@gemelazuniga3815]

yeah

[@matteighm]

Is it my imagination or does Jeremy look a little pudgy around the cheeks?

[@SR-ol6xm]

matteighm swollen glands

[@jeffconway2906]

Gigi blue

[@ParkSeoHamStar]

Jeremy Brett 🤍👏 Stunning Talented Precoiusidad Amazing Admirable Elegant Charming Wonderfull Charisma 🤍✨👏👏👏👏👏