The Pipes Of Basil Rathbones Sherlock Holmes
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Author | : Mark Irwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2019-05-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780578559957 |
From 1939 to 1946, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce starred in a fourteen-film franchise that would define Sherlock Holmes and his biographer John Watson for generations of movie-goers. The Pipes of Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes offers an informal, guided tour of the pipes smoked by Rathbone, Bruce and a host of foes, packed with film stills from each of the films and sure to delight pipemen and devotees of the Great Detective.
Author | : Amanda Field |
Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2012-07-19 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0957112823 |
England's Secret Weapon explores the way Hollywood used Sherlock Holmes in a series of fourteen films spanning the years of World War II in Europe, from The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1939 to Dressed to Kill in 1946. Basil Rathbone's portrayal of Holmes has influenced every actor who has since played him on film, TV, stage and radio, yet the film series has, until now, been neglected in terms of detailed critical analysis. The book looks at the films themselves in combination with their historical context and examines how the studio ‘updated' Holmes and recruited him to fight the Nazis, steering a careful course between modernising the detective and making sure he was still recognisable as the ‘old Holmes’ in clothes, locations and behaviour.
Author | : Maria Konnikova |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-01-03 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1101606231 |
The New York Times bestselling guide to thinking like literature's greatest detective. "Steven Pinker meets Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" (Boston Globe), by the author of The Confidence Game. No fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Holmes. But is his extraordinary intellect merely a gift of fiction, or can we learn to cultivate these abilities ourselves, to improve our lives at work and at home? We can, says psychologist and journalist Maria Konnikova, and in Mastermind she shows us how. Beginning with the “brain attic”—Holmes’s metaphor for how we store information and organize knowledge—Konnikova unpacks the mental strategies that lead to clearer thinking and deeper insights. Drawing on twenty-first-century neuroscience and psychology, Mastermind explores Holmes’s unique methods of ever-present mindfulness, astute observation, and logical deduction. In doing so, it shows how each of us, with some self-awareness and a little practice, can employ these same methods to sharpen our perceptions, solve difficult problems, and enhance our creative powers. For Holmes aficionados and casual readers alike, Konnikova reveals how the world’s most keen-eyed detective can serve as an unparalleled guide to upgrading the mind.
Author | : Basil Rathbone |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2004-08-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1617748315 |
IN AND OUT OF CHARACTER PB
Author | : David Clayton |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2020-08-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0750955058 |
Basil Rathbone is synonymous with Sherlock Holmes. He played the Victorian sleuth in the fourteen Fox/Universal films of the 1930s and ’40s, as well as on stage and radio. For many people, he is the Holmes. Basil Rathbone grew to hate Sherlock Holmes. The character placed restrictions on his career: before Holmes he was an esteemed theatre actor, appearing in Broadway plays such as The Captive and The Swan, the latter of which became his launchpad to greater stardom. But he never, ever escaped his most famous role. Basil Rathbone was not Sherlock Holmes. In The Curse of Sherlock Holmes, celebrated biographer David Clayton looks at the behind-the-camera life of a remarkable man who deserved so much more than to be relegated to just one role.
Author | : David Ruffle |
Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2012-12-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 178092187X |
1915. Sherlock Holmes to Watson: Stand with me here upon the terrace for it may be the last quiet talk that we shall ever have......... 1929. A small hospital somewhere in Dorset. An ante-room off a dimly lit corridor. It is night and there is not even the smallest amount of light penetrating the room. In the room itself a dim light enables us to see a figure in a bed. The pipes, tubes and all the trappings we associate with keeping someone alive have been removed. The man, for it is a man, lies prone and still. Still, but not silent. 1929 The last quiet talk.
Author | : David Clayton |
Publisher | : History Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2021-08-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780750997478 |
The Curse of Sherlock Holmes is the first definitive account of one of Britain's most loved actors, Basil Rathbone
Author | : Mark Irwin |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Pipe smoking |
ISBN | : 1105429032 |
Author | : James Matthew Barrie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Scottish wit and humor |
ISBN | : |
Author | : W. E. Fairbairn |
Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2021-05-06 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1781519749 |
The author of this concise guide to unarmed combat and self-defence is a legend. W. E. Fairbairn (1885-1960) spent over thirty years in the tough environment of the Riot Squads of China's Shanghai Municipal Police. In order to lower levels of Police mortality at the hands of Chinese Tongs, he studied ancient Chinese and Japanese martial arts, including Ju-jitsu, and was the first foreigner to be awarded a black belt in the discipline. He developed his own system which he called 'Defendu'. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was recruited by Britain's Special Operations Executive as an Instructor in unarmed combat and expounded the deadly mysteries of attack and defence to scores of trainee agents about to be dropped into occupied Europe. His methods were approved and officially adopted throughout the British army. Fairbairn also developed weapons and defence aids such as bullet proof vests. He is best known as the co-inventor of the famous Sykes-Fairbairn knife. In this book he expounds his distilled experience of unarmed combat. Fully illustrated, it shows how to deliver deadly blows with hand, fist, knee and boot; wrist, bear- and strangle holds (and how to break them); how to throw an enemy, and how to break their backs; how to disarm a pistol-wielding attacker; and securing a prisoner. The book also contains a chapter on the use of the rifle in close combat by Captain P. N. Walbridge.