#Review sherlock holmes and the adventure of the elusive ear series#
So Tom Conway is not exactly Basil Rathbone he is good due to Nigel Bruce's performance as Watson before he left the show and the series returned to the MBS. I much prefer the organ music from the previous 1945-1946 years. Now I will admit that the blaring horn music intro is loud and kind of annoying. The notorious and as-yet undiscovered genius Vincent van Gogh presents the master-sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, with a most. An exciting new twist on the Master of Twists. October 25-NovemPlay by David MacGregor Directed by Nancy Wright. Also the various supoorting radio actors also appeared on the Rathbone-Bruce series like Fredric Worlock as Lestrade, Mary Gordon as Mrs. Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Elusive Ear. Abernetty, the Island of Death, the Ancient Egyptian Curse, the Elusive Emerald and the Adventure of Black Angus among others. But after listening to some more of these episodes with Nigel Bruce I find that the Conway-Bruce series is almost like the Rathbone-Bruce years due to Green and Boucher staying on as the writers and continue to create some baffling and entertaining cases such as the Sally Martin, the Persecuted Millionaire, the Strange Death of Mrs.
I agree with those who say that Tom Conway is a good radio Holmes even though he is not Rathbone.
It feels as though the writers were beginning to run out of steam.įortunately Nigel Bruce's unique Watson is more lovable than ever, the ideal storyteller who can make just about anything listenable. Or do another Moriarty oh he's so crazy and murdery bit of nonsense. "Dying Detective" is one of the increasingly numerous direct adaptations of a Conan Doyle short story in this series, rather than a "new" adventure-and the "new" ones feel increasingly formulaic: take some inventive story mechanic from one of the Conan Doyle stories and insert it into a drawing room mystery complete with an engaged young couple, a rich relative with one foot in the grave, etc (mind you, Conan Doyle did a few of those himself). But he can also take Holmes' voice in new yet thoroughly convincing directions: his performance as an immobilized, weak and desperate Holmes in "The Adventure of the Dying Detective" had me transfixed here the bedridden Holmes is nothing but a voice, a thin, sometimes frantic voice so different than Sherlock's usual calm self-assurance-and even more mesmerizing. With a helping hand from Oscar Wilde, the worlds greatest detective attempts to solve one of the most audacious crimes of the Victorian era and uncover a Post-.12. He does Rathbone's Holmes perfectly-all the diction and command is there, and yet his voice is very subtly slightly more melodic and easier on the ears. 2018, Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Elusive Ear (World. I thought no one could ever rival his embodiment of the role, so I approached this post-Rathbone series with apprehension.īut Conway is amazing. Mark Colson is an American actor and former theatre professor at Michigan State University. Basil Rathbone remains *the* Sherlock Holmes for me, but then he does have the advantage of having looked and played the part to a T on the silver screen as well as on the radio.
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