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''Cinema Cameos'' is an article written by C. A. Lejeune published in [[The Sketch]] on 6 mars 1940.

C. A. Lejeune reviewed several movies including [[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (movie 1939)|The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]] with [[Basil Rathbone]] as [[Sherlock Holmes]].

''Below the part only about Sherlock Holmes.''

== Cinema Cameos ==
[[File:the-sketch-1940-03-06-p306-cinema-cameos.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[The Sketch]] (6 mars 1940, p. 306)]]

As an ardent admirer of [[Sherlock Holmes]] who still keeps an omnibus copy of the Baker Street case-books by the bedside, I have to protest violently, loudly and uncompromisingly about the film that they call "SHERLOCK HOLMES" at the Regal. Never in all their joint career, I feel, would the great Sherlock and the good Watson have lent themselves to such goings-on as they indulge in in this picture. The sight of Professor Moriarty, that master-mind of the underworld, filching the Crown Jewels disguised in a police sergeant's uniform is odd, very odd, but we can bear it. What hurts, what proves as embarrassing to the Holmes fan as the spectacle of a maiden aunt making whoopee in a paper cap, is the behaviour of the Baker Street contingent. It is not enough for Watson, the eminently respectable G.P., to lie down at full length in a London gutter, but Holmes, too, has to be up to these prankish tricks. The climax comes when the great detective, dressed in a striped blazer and straw boater, appears as a variety entertainer at Lady Conynham's party, singing "I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside." The syringe, Watson!

These complaints duly recorded, I must add that "Sherlock Holmes," as anything but Sherlock Holmes, is pretty good, easy entertainment. The sketch is something about a series of murders arranged to distract the detective while his arch-enemy makes a ''coup'' at the Tower of London. The detective, who is, I emphatically insist, ''not'' Holmes, is smoothly and engagingly played by [[Basil Rathbone]]. His assistant, who is uproariously ''not'' Watson, is done with a pleasant sense of dumb clowning by [[Nigel Bruce]]. [[George Zucco]] is the arch-fiend, and [[Ida Lupino]] the distraught heroine. Following her success in "The Light That Failed," Miss Lupino gives another arresting little sketch of a Victorian lady in trouble. It takes some talent in a young actress to make these period types live, but Miss Lupino has it. If she goes on developing at the rate of her last two pictures she Will soon be a very good actress indeed.

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[[Basil Rathbone|BASIL RATHBONE]], who made such a success as [[Sherlock Holmes]] in the film version of "[[The Hound of the Baskervilles (movie 1939)|The Hound of the Baskervilles]]," is to be seen once more as the famous [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Conan Doyle]] character in "[[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (movie 1939)|SHERLOCK HOLMES]]," the new Twentieth Century-Fox picture at the Regal, Marble Arch. Here he is, complete with classic "deer-stalker" cap and ulster, about to bring villainy to book.

[[Basil Rathbone|BASIL RATHBONE]] and [[Nigel Bruce|NIGEL BRUCE]] as the famous film that they call detective and the fatuous [[Dr. Watson]] in "[[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (movie 1939)|SHERLOCK HOLMES]]," as the Regal Cinema, Marble Arch.

[[Basil Rathbone|BASIL RATHBONE]], at the seer of Baker Street, reassuring [[Ida Lupino|IDA LUPINO]], who plays the heroine of the new "[[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (movie 1939)|SHERLOCK HOLMES]]" picture.

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* [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:Complete Works|Back to Complete Works]]
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