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PETE HARRIS
AGAIN, THE GREAT DETECTIVE: As a long-time Sherlock Holmes aficionado, I wasn't offended by the new TV movie, Sherlock Holmes In New York, with Roger Moore as Holmes, Patrick Macnee as Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson and John Huston as Professor Moriarty, It was played straight; it was suitably atmospheric; it was visually faithful (or seemed to be) to the period--turn of. the century--and there were some interesting character people... but... but, it wasn't Sherlock Holmes.
Probably because of the unavoidable influence of Basil Rathbone's portrayal of Holmes while I was growing up, I have always been compelled to use it as a yardstick against which to measure subsequent portrayals, by such people as Peter Cushing, Ronald Howard, John Neville and Robert Stephens, And, always, it is Rathbone's presence that overwhelms all who follow, I've always liked Roger Moore as an actor, but he is absolutely the wrong physical type to play Holmes, The Saint, yes; even, with slight reservations, James Bond. He might even be believable as Raffles or Richard Hannay or Bulldog Drummond, But not as Sherlock Holmes,
As I said, there were some interesting character people, including Jackie Coogan as a hotel clerk, Signe Hasso as Irene Adler's German maid, Leon Ames as theatrical producer Daniel Furman (sic) and Billy Benedict as a telegraph clerk, As Don Daynard commented, 20 years ago he'd have played the telegraph delivery boy. And then there was Charlotte Rampling doing her Lauren Bacall number as Irene Adler, And, it was the broad suggestion that her son, who figured prominently in the case, had been fathered by Sherlock Holmes during a European fling 10 years earlier, that threw the whole thing completely off the rails, The film even became poignant as it slowly dawned on Holmes that possibly, just possibly, the kid was his, It was touching, almost moving, but, dash it all, it wasn't Holmes,
There was an interesting theatrical footnote thrown in early in the film. When Irene Adler is unable to appear in the opening performance of The Second Mrs, Tanqueray, her replacement is announced as none other than May Robson, who much later appeared in such movies as Lady For A Day, Dinner At Eight and A Star Is Born ('37). Which sent me scurrying to the archives to see if she had in fact appeared in that particular play at that particular time (circa 1901).
Interestingly enough, there was a production of The Second Mrs, Tanqueray that season, but with Mrs, Patrick Campbell, May Robson, on the other hand, who had been appearing on the New York stage since at least 1893, was in something called The Messenger Boy with James T. Powers, So, unless I'm mistaken, it's hardly likely she'd have been an understudy at that stage of her career, Nice try, anyway, guys,