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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

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There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective. From TMDB

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  • Robert 'bele' Sienicki @rsienicki.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2026

    I really wish they would do another RDJ's "Sherlock Holmes" movie. I remember going to the cinema multiple times for the first one. Everything there clicked for me, the casting, the vibe, the music. Such a fun adventure flick.

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  • Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2024

    Fabulous Swedish poster for the 1929 German silent movie version of the Sherlock Holmes’ adventure “Der Hund von Baskerville”.

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  • Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2025

    After woes with piracy, terrible adaptations and bad contracts, Doyle was finally pleased with a Sherlock Holmes adaptation. Eille Norwood played Holmes in 45 shorts and 2 featured produced by the Stoll film company. The series is in the process of being restored.

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  • New London Boy 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @newlondonboy.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    #NowWatching Really enjoying these vintage Holmes movies. So atmospheric. #FilmSky #SherlockHolmes

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  • The Great Detective @greatdetective.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2026

    ..."And my dear Holmes, there's an idiot on his trail!" WITHOUT A CLUE (1988) Dr John Watson (Ben Kingsley) as the brilliant detective who creates 'Sherlock Holmes' as a cover and hires a washed-up stage actor, Reginald Kincaid (Michael Caine), to pose as the brains of the operation. #filmsky

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  • Shawn Griffiths @offbeattheater.bsky.socialBluesky · May 6, 2026

    I made it my goal to make Gene Wilder my most watched actor of 2026. But then, I started watching the Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes films, and now that is going to be difficult. 🤣 Movie 5 of #MurderMysteryMAYhem 2026.

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  • John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2025

    Murder By Decree opened OTD in 1979. I love that Jack The Ripper's identity is confirmed on the anniversary of the most underrated Sherlock Holmes movie, where Holmes pursues Jack the Ripper.

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  • Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    3/ In a rare surviving film clip, Arthur Conan Doyle points directly to Joseph Bell as the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. One man. One gesture. And yet Bell has remained in the shadows—until now.

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  • Jeff Kelley @jeff-a-kelley.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 9, 2025

    Born on this day in 1914 was the American Film actress, Hillary Brooke. She is best known for appearing in two Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies. She was also in such films as I Cover Big Town, Africa Screams, Lost Continent and The Maze. #OnThisDay #botd

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  • Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 19, 2025

    Der Hund von Baskerville (1929) is a German Sherlock Holmes film with Carlyle Blackwell playing the famous detective

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  • Amy Richau @amyrichau.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 19, 2026

    It's finally up! I think I was the perfect age for Young Sherlock Holmes when it came out & it was truly a joy to chat with ILM legend Dennis Muren about the film 40 years later & the unique place it holds in the history of visual effects. www.ilm.com/young-sherlo...

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  • Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 26, 2025

    Utterly fabulous 1929 Swedish movie poster for “Der Hund von Baskerville”, a German take on “Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles”. Of the artist, I regret I know nothing.

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  • Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2026

    In a rare surviving film clip, Arthur Conan Doyle points directly to Joseph Bell as the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. One man. One gesture. And yet Bell has remained in the shadows—until now. /13

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  • Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 27, 2025

    I’ve baked some cinnamon rolls that have come out of the oven looking like an array of hats Guy Ritchie would choose for the henchmen in a Sherlock Holmes film.

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  • Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 4, 2025

    As a Sherlock Holmes/Jack the Ripper movie completist, I checked out Detective Chinatown 1900 in a London cinema yesterday. I think I was the only non-Asian in a full house (several other screenings I looked up were sold out) which was also overwhelmingly young and female.

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  • 🌠Space Creature ✨ @faespacecritter.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2025

    Dracula is public domain and so is Sherlock Holmes. What's stopping anyone from making a movie about them kissing

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  • Gary Craig @luna2300.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 14, 2026

    One of my favorite Sherlock Holmes films The House Of Fear 1945 is free to watch with no adds on my Crime playlist. A old dark house themed film, along with 26 other classic crime films. Many more Sherlock Holmes films as well . Please subscribe to the YouTube Channel. youtu.be/-J8Peg1G31c

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  • Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 25, 2026

    Sherlock Holmes and the Solitary Cyclist starting on ITV4 in a sec. Treat yourself to the greatest fight scene ever committed to film.

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  • CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2026

    Let Andrade star in a Sherlock Holmes movie

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  • Steve McPherson @steventurous.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2023

    Just started S1 and still trying to reconcile the fact that the brief for the character is Sherlock Holmes but the size of Zangief and they cast Tom Cruise in the movie?

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  • Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2024

    Today's mail call! A long overdue purchase. Of all the tv and film adaptations of Sherlock Holmes, Jeremy Brett's series is my favorite.

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  • Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2026

    Woke up a 5am in pain again. I tried reading, but my eyes were too bleary so I turned on an old Sherlock Holmes movie only to be reminded of how much I hate Nigel Bruce's Dr. Watson. The horror. The horror.

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  • David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 21, 2024

    Tower Bridge under construction in 1889 (in colour) This is why Guy Ritchie's first Sherlock Holmes film was pretty accurate... as he used this as one of the reference images...

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  • Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 21, 2026

    This is a thorough history of rights-holders' influence over (mostly) film adaptations of Sherlock Holmes. For folks excited about Sherlock in the public domain and free to be gay, I HIGHLY recommend "Watson's Sketchbook," by @leeknoxostertag.bsky.social mkobooks.bigcartel.com/product/wats...

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  • Jason Inman @jasoninman.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2025

    It’s an astounding double premiere weekend in my household! First, the Star Trek Section 31 movie hits Paramount Plus tomorrow (I assisted the writer on the film). Then, Watson premieres on CBS Sunday night, and I was lucky to be a staff writer on this new take on the Sherlock Holmes mythology.

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  • The Anti-Christ Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.comBluesky · Nov 30, 2025

    One very underrated Christmas movie? Young Sherlock Holmes. It's Christmassy, nasty in places, has an absolutely tremendous score, and it's where a lot of the feel of the first Harry Potter movie came from.

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  • Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 12, 2025

    A supernatural thief vs the great detective in the 1900 comedy film SHERLOCK HOLMES BAFFLED. Holmes was canonically dead when this unauthorized film was made and would not be officially resurrected for three more years.

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  • Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.comBluesky · Jul 26, 2026

    Meanwhile, apropos of absolutely nothing: it's a fabulous bit of film programming that goes from SHERLOCK HOLMES: INCIDENT AT VICTORIA FALLS (a 1992 Christopher Lee Holmes) to FISTS OF FURY. 🙂 ...Don't know who's running the UK satellite channel currenly branded "Together", but it works for me.

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  • Maqabre @maqusan.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 15, 2024

    One of my favourite "time is weird" facts: There were film adaptations of Sherlock Holmes being made while the books were still being written.

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  • Nancy Springer @nancythespringer.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2025

    OMG! I am delighted to announce that Enola Holmes 3, another movie based on my books about Sherlock Holmes' kid sister, will begin filming this April! It's official! I am so excited! #EnolaHolmes #SherlockHolmes #MillieBobbyBrown #HenryCavill #Netflix #movie

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  • Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 26, 2025

    What’s a movie you’ve seen a dozen times and will never get tired of? 🎥 For me…🖤 Young Sherlock Holmes

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  • Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 25, 2026

    David Ellison always looks like he’s on the receiving end of a slow motion punch in a Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes film

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  • I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2025

    I had a whole back & forth with a couple folks on Twitter coming up with descriptions of him. "Like Moriarty in a Sherlock Holmes movie set in Panama City" "The Doctor regeneration the fans pretend didn't happen" "Man has a subscription to Velour Enthusiast Quarterly"

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  • Zeb Cyrus 🎃👻🙀 @zbcy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 28, 2026

    Books to film 📚=🎞️ The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle was adapted to film more than any other Sherlock Holmes story. It was filmed notably in 1939 (w/Basil Rathbone) & 1959 (w/Peter Cushing). Also, the films use 3rd person vs Watson's 1st person narrative. 🕵🏻‍♂️🎻🔎 #filmsky #booksky

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  • Charles Prepolec @sherlockeditor.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2026

    🇨🇦 February 1, 1979: #OTD Murder By Decree, with Christopher Plummer as Sherlock Holmes and James Mason as Watson, opened theatrically in Canada. The film won Canadian Genie Awards (in the 1st Genie Awards)...

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  • B.C. Johnson @bc-johnson.comBluesky · Jun 10, 2025

    There's nothing stopping anyone from making a Sherlock Holmes movie with Brent Spiner and Levar Burton. I don't mean Data and Geordi, I mean literally Brent and Levar. What are we doing. Let's go.

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  • Bernard Rose Photography @brpimages.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2024

    Stanley Dock from a 2010 explore before restoration and Titanic Hotel, used as film locations for Sherlock Holmes and Captain America hence quayside was very tidy @angiesliverpool.bsky.social @yoliverpool.bsky.social @daveyph.bsky.social #StanleyDock #Liverpool

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  • Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.comBluesky · Jun 1, 2025

    Young Sherlock Holmes is the best Holmes film ever made. I know the dialogue by heart in both English and Spanish, but I’d never seen it on the big screen. Thank you to @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social for bringing Nicholas Rowe and Sophie Ward (and a virtual Alan Cox) to Bristol.

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  • Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 11, 2024

    It's weird that Quentin Tarantino never made a Sherlock Holmes movie. Maybe he doesn't know that the game is afoot.

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  • Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2026

    It’s Patrick Gowers’ birthday. He was a brilliant choral, tv & film composer. He composed all the music for my favourite version of Sherlock Holmes, the Granada series starring Jeremy Brett. The superb violin-led theme tune set the tone immediately & exquisitely. youtu.be/-mmVjr4BoCk?...

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  • Miss Machete, Pumpkin Spice Cannibal @miss-machete.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 18, 2026

    Drop your favorite film sequences. RDJ as Sherlock Holmes plans out his fight, in style...

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  • Whovian Jo 🦙 She/Her @whovianjo66.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2025

    @baftaofficial.bsky.social This year marks 30 years since the untimely passing of the incomparable Jeremy Brett. Star of theater, film & the definitive Sherlock Holmes, he mastered drama, comedy & had a wonderful singing voice. WHEN IS HE GOING TO BE AWARDED A BAFTA??

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  • Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 9, 2025

    Take a character that is well known for a genre, and pitch a movie of them in a totally different genre... where they still make sense. I'll go first. "Sherlock Holmes and the Chocolate Factory"

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  • ~Tilda is short for It's Decoratilda Gourd Season, Motherf***ers @hulcricket.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    we somehow stumbled across The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975), a wacky film directed by and starring Gene Wilder, along with Madeline Kahn and Marty Feldman, that mostly got lost to time somehow this is absolutely incredible and hilarious and amazing

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  • 🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.comBluesky · Mar 31, 2025

    MR. HOLMES has been on my watchlist for awhile, and finally got around to seeing it. Magnificent film. Really enjoyed the quiet pacing of it and the characterization. Big thumbs up as a Sherlock Holmes fan.

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  • Laird Barron @lairdbarron.bsky.socialBluesky · May 15, 2026

    Been watching the Sherlock Holmes film series. Christopher Lee is my favorite Holmes, but I'm enjoying Basil Rathbone's take... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SiH...

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  • Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 4, 2024

    THE DAVID MARSH COLLECTION, with source materials from ICOM Simulations games like Shadowgate, Uninvited, Deja Vu, and more. David had a treasure trove of materials from ICOM! Are you a fan of the Sega CD classic Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective? Well, there's the literal film it was filmed on

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  • Conrad J. Barrington @conradbarrington.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 1, 2024

    Watched The Pearl of Death (1945), another Sherlock Holmes film. A bit by-the-numbers, except for the welcome presence of Rondo Hatton as The Creeper, who murders people by breaking their spines. So obviously that rules.

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  • Conrad J. Barrington @conradbarrington.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 30, 2024

    Watched Spider Woman (1943), a Sherlock Holmes movie with Basil Rathbone. These are always a blast but this one was especially good, with an exceedingly sinister Gale Sondergaard, and many spiders throughout.

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  • The Weekly Planet @theweeklyplanet.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2025

    New bonus ep is another clickbait special! James & Maso both equally having the best time with articles including Sherlock Holmes and a certain Batman movie... bigsandwich.co

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  • Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 11, 2023

    Boy was killing off Rachel McAdams in the second SHERLOCK HOLMES film a mistake. Cheapened the whole character and cut off the most delightful way to off-balance a very cocky Sherlock.

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  • film-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 25, 2026

    Everyone has their favourite Sherlock Holmes; I grew up with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. They feature in Dressed to Kill (1946), screening4pm (Wed) on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Grab your hat and boots, there's not a moment to lose!!! #TalkingPicturesTV film-authority.com/2025/03/13/d...

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  • Luci Lovecrafts Popworld ™️ 📀 @lucilovecraft.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 29, 2025

    Bedtime movie , Jeremy Brett is the GOAT! Sherlock Holmes 🕵️‍♂️ #Moviesky #NowWatching

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  • The Nitrate Diva @nitratediva.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2025

    This screenshot is from THE HOUSE OF FEAR (1945), one of the best of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies. A nice cozy mystery for a stormy (literally or metaphorically) night. youtu.be/252zkpeFfRc

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  • snail / Jules V. @snail-tamer.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 18, 2024

    rewatched the 2009 Sherlock Holmes film

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  • Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2024

    Watched The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes last night for the first time in decades. What a beautiful, enjoyable, and ultimately moving film. Undervalued but top tier Wilder for sure.

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  • Wile E. Coyote's ACME Sales Rep @crankyoldcrackpot.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2025

    #DetectiveSongs #MusicChallenge Day 6 - Sherlock Holmes From the 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie, a great Guy Ritchie work, and a great Irish band that my Irish wife introduced me to many years ago. Rocky Road to Dublin - The Dubliners www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3nX...

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  • The Voice Artist’s Spotlight @voiceactors.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 12, 2025

    Alice ( @lizzierfreeman.bsky.social ) Movie: Sherlock Holmes and The Great Escape Year: 2021 Lizzie Freeman voiced in Bang Zoom Entertainment's dub of the Hong Kong-animated Sherlock Holmes and The Great Escape; not the be confused with Sherlock Hound from 1984. #SherlockHolmesandTheGreatEscape

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  • Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2024

    Mexican poster for MURDER BY DECREE (1979), directed by Bob Clark and starring Christopher Plummer - BOTD in 1929 Strong contender for the best Sherlock Holmes film

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  • Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 22, 2026

    Rondo Hatton in a lobby card for the 1944 Sherlock Holmes movie THE PEARL OF DEATH Hatton was BOTD in 1894

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