Something of the Sepp Blatter about Georgey Graham, wasn't there

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Now I come to think of it, everyone's finest hour was in A Bridge Too Far.

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Not Gene Hackman's :-(

A fine actor, but casting him as a Polish colonel was a bit odd.

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I've never seen that. I like films about Elizabethan playwrights, I'll seek it out.

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Ah, you may be slightly underwhelmed then, in that case. He rarely looked better though

http://www.metro.us/entertainment/el...ye-614x458.jpg

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Ah, you may be slightly underwhelmed then, in that case. He rarely looked better though

http://www.metro.us/entertainment/el...ye-614x458.jpg

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Yes. Completely miscast, of course, though. Marlowe is described repeatedly as looking like the quintessential rugged, All-American hero. Elliott Gould looks like..well...Elliott Gould.

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Yes. Completely miscast, of course, though. Marlowe is described repeatedly as looking like the quintessential rugged, All-American hero. Elliott Gould looks like..well...Elliot Gould.

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Agreed. I love Guy Ritchie but I can never bring myself to watch his Sherlock Holmes for just that same reason. *This* man is Sherlock Holmes

http://www.jomagazin.cz/sites/default/files/ruppert.jpg

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Not Gene Hackman's :-(

A fine actor, but casting him as a Polish colonel was a bit odd.

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I'm sure he used the same accent for the blind monk in Young Frankenstein :hehe:

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Agreed. I love Guy Ritchie but I can never bring myself to watch his Sherlock Holmes for just that same reason.

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Sherlock Holmes has been so buggered about with now that it's all academic imo.

He'll always be Basil Rathbone to me. Did you know Basil Rathbone won the MC? After his brother was killed, he used to snipe the German front line in broad daylight while dressed as a tree. Bizarrely, he served in the same regiment as Claude Rains and Ronald Colman

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Sherlock Holmes has been so buggered about with now that it's all academic imo.

He'll always be Basil Rathbone to me. Did you know Basil Rathbone won the MC? After his brother was killed, he used to snipe the German front line in broad daylight while dressed as a tree. Bizarrely, he served in the same regiment as Claude Rains and Ronald Colman

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Terrific! I didn't know any of that.

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Terrific! I didn't know any of that.

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Yes. Extraordinary stuff, isn't it? Apparently, old Basil offed an awful lot of Huns before becoming Sherlock Holmes.