The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #61089 Message #982754
Posted By: Steve Parkes
14-Jul-03 - 03:29 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: I Do Like to Be beside the Seaside
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Oh I do Love to be beside the sea side
As a bit of a Holmsean myself, I must say that, having read the entire canon, some of it several times, and heard/seen much of it in radio and tv adaptations, the Rathbone films are a bit of a joke. Most of them are "based on the characters created by ACD", but with invented stories not based on the originals. They fall into that genre of "so bad they're good"; very entertaining, but only of value as curiosities to the true Baker St buff.