{"id":24106,"date":"2024-10-18T21:46:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T20:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=24106"},"modified":"2024-10-18T22:33:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T21:33:51","slug":"media-the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=24106","title":{"rendered":"MEDiA: The Hound of The Baskervilles, 1939"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"685\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0147-1-685x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24101\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0147-1-685x1024.jpg 685w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0147-1-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0147-1-768x1149.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0147-1-1027x1536.jpg 1027w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0147-1.jpg 1337w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/stars_08_four-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24102\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/stars_08_four-1-2.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/stars_08_four-1-2-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Great fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These old Basil Rathbone Holmes movies were often on TV when I were a young nipper. Both Teresa and I ultimately prefer Jeremy Brett for the role, for a more authentic dramatic rendering of Holmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"850\" height=\"660\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0154-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24104\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0154-1.jpg 850w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0154-1-300x233.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0154-1-768x596.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Watson deduces.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But Rathbone is great fun in these slightly odd wartime Yankee Doodle versions. And Nigel Bruce, as the bumbling Dr Watson, whilst silly, is <em>very<\/em> endearing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"694\" height=\"521\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0161-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24105\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0161-1.png 694w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0161-1-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fiddlesticks!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve seen this instalment of the series many times. And yet, watching it again, tonight, a lot of it I didn\u2019t really recognise. Weird!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"777\" height=\"583\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0158-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24103\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0158-1.jpg 777w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0158-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0158-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Carradine a Eily Malyon are great as the spooky Mr &amp; Mrs Barryman, servants at the Baskerville Pile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0166-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24108\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0166-1.png 448w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0166-1-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What\u2019s Barryman up to?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"198\" height=\"149\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0165-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24109\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0175-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24112\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0175-1.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0175-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"830\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0176-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24113\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0176-1.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0176-1-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Spooky!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This film isn\u2019t very much like ACD\u2019s written version. But who cares? There are other interpretations, if you want a more faithful rendering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fistful<\/em> was my choice. <em>The Hound<\/em> was Teresa\u2019s. And ultimately, they\u2019re both a load of ol\u2019 hokum. But enjoyably so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great fun! These old Basil Rathbone Holmes movies were often on TV when I were a young nipper. Both Teresa and I ultimately prefer Jeremy Brett for the role, for a more authentic dramatic rendering of Holmes. But Rathbone is great fun in these slightly odd wartime Yankee Doodle versions. And Nigel Bruce, as the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=24106\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MEDiA: The Hound of The Baskervilles, 1939&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6gO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24106"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24115,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24106\/revisions\/24115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}