The year is drawing to a close and I have yet only properly finished three Operation: 101010 categories.... until today. I just finished my tenth Sherlock Holmes movie of the year and only need another film each to finish two other categories. So there still is some chance that I may actually draw all these to a close.
As for Sherlock Holmes: This proved to be quite a fruitful year. Following the success of last year's cinematic blockbuster, we were treated to a couple of new productions. On the one hand The Asylum's Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes that wasn't as bad as I feared it would be. It did, however, have the most awfully miscast Holmes of all times. Ben Snyder - with no previous cinematic acting experience of any kind, how did he end up with one of the most iconic roles of all times? - plays a soft spoken, near helium voiced Holmes who is at least one head too small and spouts utter nonsense.
Much better were the three episodes of the Beeb's new contemporary Sherlock series that simply redefined the Master Detective for a new and younger generation while staying faithful to the source material.
Thanks to YouTube and Archive.org I also caught up with some older Holmes interpretations that I hadn't been familiar with before. Most prominently those of Arthur Wontner who is a very convincing Holmes in some very slow paced productions.
Below the ten Holmes productions that I enjoyed in 2010:
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Wontner)
Murder at the Baskervilles (Arthur Wontner)
Batman: The Brave and the Bold – Trials of the Demon
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (The Asylum)
Sherlock: A Study in Pink
Sherlock: The Blind Banker
Sherlock: The Great Game
The Man Who Disappeared (TV pilot, 1954)
The Masks of Death
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