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| Sherlock Holmes on Screen | 
 enlarge | Author: Alan Barnes
Publisher: Reynolds & Hearn Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 137473
Media: Paperback
Edition: Rev. Ed
Pages: 286
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 1905287801
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4375
EAN: 9781905287802
ASIN: 1905287801
Publication Date: September 4, 2008
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The (almost) complete film & tv history of Sherlock Holmes April 20, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The only thing i can find wrong with this book is that it has not been updated past 2003. maybe its time to bring out another updated edition, to include things such as Rupert Everert's superb "Sherlock holmes & the silk stocking murders" Though that is a small quibble indeed. This book is strangely all encompassing for its size (289 pages with lots of pictues, many of which I had not seen before.) Even obsure Russian and Polish TV series are included, and apparently, very good they are. Indeed how the author managed to view some of the obscure films and tv series in the book is a wonder indeed (this reviewer knows firsthand the difficulties involved in tracking down such items) For example. Alan Barnes has viewed such hard to get hold of items such as the entire Douglas Wilmer BBC tv series, as well as the exsisting Eilie Norwood silent shows from the 1920's. I have had to make do with two Norwood silent pictures, though very good they were.
The detail is very thorough, with the exact footage of the silent films noted, as apparently this is how they were measured, not by hours and minutes. So I am able to say with confidence that the truly obscure Danish silent, called 'Den Forklaedte Guvernante'(the bogus governess) made in 1910, was 1050 feet long and stared Otto Lagoni as Holmes. The factual details, however are far from dry reading. The light conversational manner in which it is written, leads one along, page after page. Somehow making the most obscure films interesting, with interspersed assides, as though Barnes is sppeaking face to face with a fellow Sherlockian. Which, lets be honest, if you buy the book, he probably is. On the whole, well worth buying, and for me a constant ready, and reliable refference.
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