Proto-#Bond_age_ Vol 2. found us dissecting the ways in which the legacies of James Bond and Sherlock Holmes overlap. How better to consider the similarities between the great English gents than by revisiting the great Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. For our first feature, I chose The Secret Weapon because of the international espionage angle and a few Bond-ish treasures scattered throughout. If you didn’t join us, follow along at home.
INITIATE PROTO-#BOND_AGE_ VOL. 2: THE SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON LIVE TWEET DIGEST!
INITIATE MISSION! #SherlockBond Watch here: http://t.co/GP0O4mBrKL
— The Nitrate Diva (@NitrateDiva) January 2, 2014
I picked this Holmes film specifically because it dealt with a more international case — something Bond might tackle. Go #SherlockBond, Go! — #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
@GregMcCambley That’s not tobacco in Sherlock’s pipe. #SherlockBond — #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
SECRET WEAPON was released in 1942, so the WWII intrigue, which might seem silly today, had real weight for audiences. #SherlockBond
— The Nitrate Diva (@NitrateDiva) January 2, 2014
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943) Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce vintage newspaper ads http://t.co/PWlVRdeSyx #SherlockBond
— Asta Charles (@Astas_Doghouse) January 2, 2014
I wonder if the anyone ever said “We must fire Atwill!” on set? #SherlockBond — Canucklehead (@GregMcCambley) January 2, 2014
We’ve #SherlockBond crossovers already—exotic locations and elaborate disguises. — The Nitrate Diva (@NitrateDiva) January 2, 2014
Zither alert! #SherlockBond
— Leon Trotsky (@trotskydc) January 2, 2014
This was the 4th movie with Rathbone as Holmes, but only the second to feature a contemporary WWII setting. #SherlockBond
— The Nitrate Diva (@NitrateDiva) January 2, 2014
#SherlockBond Propaganda “in a short time there will only be one language” Scary thought for audiences in 1942 — Fussy (@MiddParent) January 2, 2014
*whispered* …the password is… schadenfreude… #SherlockBond — #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
@007hertzrumble It has to be. It comes with a free Tiny Tim in the hollowed out centre. #SherlockBond — Canucklehead (@GregMcCambley) January 2, 2014
“Excuse me. But did you once fly for Pussy Galore’s Flying Circus?” #SherlockBond
— #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
@NitrateDiva And here I make a Pussy Galore joke.
— #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
Quite an in-depth disguise! It’s the rare detective who has heard of Shakespeare and dickens! #SherlockBond — Leon Trotsky (@trotskydc) January 2, 2014
Where can I buy that dust creating device? I need my home to look more aged. #SherlockBond — Andy Ross (@ThatAndyRoss) January 2, 2014
@MiddParent Nigel Bruce would be fooled by a Groucho Marx mustache. #SherlockBond — #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
Doyle’s not enough? You have to drag Poe into this? #SherlockBond
— Canucklehead (@GregMcCambley) January 2, 2014
Okay, so it’s time to speculate… WHAT WERE THEY THINKING WITH RATHBONE’S FEATHERED HAIR? #SherlockBond
— The Nitrate Diva (@NitrateDiva) January 2, 2014
@GregMcCambley @NitrateDiva Or Julius Caesar! #SherlockBond — Fussy (@MiddParent) January 2, 2014
Trivia — Rathbone was going though his New Romantics 80 music phase here — hence the hair. #SherlockBond — Eddie Love (@EddieLove44) January 2, 2014
@MiddParent The only thing you can leave Watson in charge of is the bar. #SherlockBond
— #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
Haha. They both said “Bum site.” #SherlockBond
— #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
This is the 1st of the Holmes series to be directed by Roy William Neill. He would direct the remaining 11 movies. #SherlockBond — The Nitrate Diva (@NitrateDiva) January 2, 2014
@007hertzrumble I don’t know if Bruce had any say in it, but Watson is many things. A buffoon is not one of them. #SherlockBond — Canucklehead (@GregMcCambley) January 2, 2014
“That amount of lipstick never came from thin lips.” During his lost years, Holmes moonlighted as a beautician. #SherlockBond — The Nitrate Diva (@NitrateDiva) January 2, 2014
Holmes is constantly saying he never guesses. But he guesses all the effing time! #SherlockBond
— Eddie Love (@EddieLove44) January 2, 2014
Look! More bums! #SherlockBond
— #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
He likes big bums and he cannot lie. #SherlockBond — #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
This scene was the basis for the Peter Gabriel song. #SalisburyPlains. #SherlockBond — Eddie Love (@EddieLove44) January 2, 2014
Salisbury Plain looks remarkably like the Mojave Desert. #SherlockBond — Canucklehead (@GregMcCambley) January 2, 2014
@MiddParent This is totally just the plot of #GoldenEye. #SherlockBond
— #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
We’ll revolutionize aerial bumbardment! #SherlockBond
— #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
@007hertzrumble I am howling over here…I think it’s hilarious! Keep it up. #SherlockBond…if you can — Fussy (@MiddParent) January 2, 2014
@EddieLove44 But he goes by Alan Smithee. #SherlockBond — #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
“Apparatus” and “impregnable” in just a few sentences? The screenwriter was indulging himself… #SherlockBond
— The Nitrate Diva (@NitrateDiva) January 2, 2014
“We must bribe him with Toblerone.” #SherlockBond
— Andy Ross (@ThatAndyRoss) January 2, 2014
That hair is just abysmal. #SherlockBond — kim (@kimmiechem2) January 2, 2014
Someone tell Dr. Tobel his white yarmulke is slipping. #SherlockBond — Eddie Love (@EddieLove44) January 2, 2014
I’m pretty sure Sherlock’s mom bought him that hat and he’s really embarrassed to wear it out of the house. #SherlockBond — #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
He has to put it on every so often, just to humor her and avoid the “you never appreciate what I do for you” talk. #SherlockBond
— #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
You see, goddamnit, that was a guess! #SherlockBond
— Eddie Love (@EddieLove44) January 2, 2014
All of Watson’s sense impulses seem to just casually stroll up to his brain. #SherlockBond — Canucklehead (@GregMcCambley) January 2, 2014
@NitrateDiva It’s like a George Costanza comb-over without the baldness. #SherlockBond — #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
It’s pretty amazing these ate the best takes they were able to get out of this actress. #SherlockBond
— Eddie Love (@EddieLove44) January 2, 2014
Is this a sleazy watering hole for sailors or a preschool? #sherlockbond
— Leon Trotsky (@trotskydc) January 2, 2014
‘ow you be, Sailor Holmes? #SherlockBond — Canucklehead (@GregMcCambley) January 2, 2014
Sherlock’s going to audition for a modernization of the Pirates of Penzance. #SherlockBond — #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
Is anyone getting an intense Cruising vibe? #SherlockBond
— Eddie Love (@EddieLove44) January 2, 2014
@ThatAndyRoss Missed opportunity, if you ask me. #SherlockBond
— #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
“Sherlock smash!” #SherlockBond — Eddie Love (@EddieLove44) January 2, 2014
It’s FrankenHolmes. #SherlockBond — Canucklehead (@GregMcCambley) January 2, 2014
This guy only has booze and candles. Why is he still so pear-shaped? #SherlockBond
— #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
Moriarty here is being played, of course, by the formidable Lionel Atwill who spent most of his career as a villain. #SherlockBond
— The Nitrate Diva (@NitrateDiva) January 2, 2014
I forget how short these films are, but they’re so damn delightful. #SherlockBond — Andy Ross (@ThatAndyRoss) January 2, 2014
@NitrateDiva Moriarty >>> Blofeld. #SherlockBond — #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
The good ole’ fluorescent salts trick. #SherlockBond
— kim (@kimmiechem2) January 2, 2014
@MiddParent It’s his natural state, fumbling around in the dark. #SherlockBond
— Canucklehead (@GregMcCambley) January 2, 2014
WOOT! He divided his bum into four parts?? #SherlockBond
— #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
Tickle torture! #sherlockbond
— Leon Trotsky (@trotskydc) January 2, 2014
Again, that would be a guess. #SherlockBond — Eddie Love (@EddieLove44) January 2, 2014
Gosh, I’ve had acupuncture sessions more brutal than this. #SherlockBond — The Nitrate Diva (@NitrateDiva) January 2, 2014
Interesting interrogation technique. Merely repeating the question over and over again. INSIDIOUS! #SherlockBond
— #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
Okay, dorky moment. Did you see that skull abacus? Well it was also in WIVES UNDER SUSPICION… #SherlockBond pic.twitter.com/6byyeov0zW
— The Nitrate Diva (@NitrateDiva) January 2, 2014
All these elaborate schemes to kill Sherlock are very Bond. #SherlockBond — Fussy (@MiddParent) January 2, 2014
Just picture the 60s Batman narrator: “What’s this!? Sherlock trapped undue ragged cloths!?” #SherlockBond — Andy Ross (@ThatAndyRoss) January 2, 2014
Thorough search there, Lestrade. #SherlockBond — Canucklehead (@GregMcCambley) January 2, 2014
Am the only one who thinks his hair has a smack of Gene Wilder to it? #SherlockBond
— Andy Ross (@ThatAndyRoss) January 2, 2014
@trotskydc Watson is the only one fooled #SherlockBond
— Fussy (@MiddParent) January 2, 2014
Watson knows all about drips. And drops. And drams. #SherlockBond — Canucklehead (@GregMcCambley) January 2, 2014
Proto moment: the eloquent, sophisticated villain in an opulent setting. #SherlockBond — Andy Ross (@ThatAndyRoss) January 2, 2014
“The needle to the last” finally an allusion to the cocaine habit. #sherlockbond
— Leon Trotsky (@trotskydc) January 2, 2014
I hope this is my favorite one that has the bizarre scene of Holmes offering up elaborate suggestion how he be killed!!! #sherlockbond
— Eddie Love (@EddieLove44) January 2, 2014
Here we go again with the elaborate schemes to kill Bond, I mean, Sherlock.#SherlockBond
— Fussy (@MiddParent) January 2, 2014
With Watson and Lestrade together, it’s like the blind leading the blind. #SherlockBond — Canucklehead (@GregMcCambley) January 2, 2014
Don’t you just love a home with a “fully equipped hospital”?#SherlockBond — Fussy (@MiddParent) January 2, 2014
Bond would have suggested being screwed to death by a bevy of hot women. #sherlockbond — Eddie Love (@EddieLove44) January 2, 2014
Getting caught on purpose is so #SherlockBond.
— #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
The way Lestrade says “Holmes”… He needs a lesson from Professor ‘enry ‘iggins with the flame. #SherlockBond
— kim (@kimmiechem2) January 2, 2014
I love how Holmes just leaps up with like one pint of blood in him. No cookie or juice first? Wow. #SherlockBond — The Nitrate Diva (@NitrateDiva) January 2, 2014
Isn’t moriarty at least going to donate the blood to some worthy patient? Fiend! #sherlockbond — Eddie Love (@EddieLove44) January 2, 2014
Yeah, it’s a good movie, but it’s leaving me feeling down about our chances against the Nazi menace….#sherlockbond
— Leon Trotsky (@trotskydc) January 2, 2014
Will the concession stand be open during the change over between films? #SherlockBond
— Andy Ross (@ThatAndyRoss) January 2, 2014
Bum site..giggle giggle….#SherlockBond — Fussy (@MiddParent) January 2, 2014
Of course German wanted the “bum site.” Who wouldn’t??? #SherlockBond. — #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
And now we get that glorious John of Gaunt speech from Richard II—a nice tie-in to the Shakespeare book at the beginning. #SherlockBond
— The Nitrate Diva (@NitrateDiva) January 2, 2014
I am feeling so English! #SherlockBond
— Fussy (@MiddParent) January 2, 2014
Mass slaughter is so patriotic! #SherlockBond — Canucklehead (@GregMcCambley) January 2, 2014
So, how about we take a little break and come back for TERROR BY NIGHT at 10:15? Okay, all? #SherlockBond — The Nitrate Diva (@NitrateDiva) January 2, 2014
Remember, kids, buy your War Bonds at the concession stand between features. #SherlockBond.
— #Bond_age_ (@007hertzrumble) January 2, 2014
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