Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > A gift I ordered for myself is the complete collection of Basil > Rathbone-Nigel Bruce "Sherlock Holmes" movies, fully restored and > digitally mastered at the UCLA film laboratories ... Can't wait for > them to show up! I rented two of them a while back and was stunned to > see how beautiful these films were: a far cry from the creaky, murky > old prints that have been broadcast on television.
976 minutes of viewing which saved a ghastly Xmas television broadcast schedule. A most English set of films; yet Philip St.John Basil Rathbone was born in South Africa, Nigel Bruce was born in Mexico and only Dennis Hoey (Inspector Lestrade) was born in London, England! They all died in America. Malcolm
