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Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection

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NOT A REVIEW Just a listing:

Disc #1 -- Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection
Dressed To Kill
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Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon
Chapters
Terror By Night
Chapters
The Woman In Green
Chapters
Sherlock Holmes Bio
Disc #2 -- Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection
The Sign Of Four
Chapters
Murder At The Baskervilles
Chapters
The Triumph Of Sherlock Holmes
Chapters
The Bruce-Partington Plans Originally Aired, November 6, 1939
Disc #3 -- Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection
The Speckled Band
Chapters
A Study In Scarlet
Chapters
Sherlock Holmes And The Deadly Necklace
Chapters
Arthur Conan Doyle Bio
Disc #4 -- Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection
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Episodes
The Case of the Cunningham Heritage
The Case of Lady Beryl
The Case of the Pennsylvania Gun
The Case of the Texas Cowgirl
The Case of the Belligerent Ghost
The Case of the Royal Murder
The Case of the Winthrop Legend
The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff
The Case of Harry Crocker
Sherlock Holmes Trailers
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Scarlet Claw
The Spider Woman
Terror By Night
Disc #5 -- Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection
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Episodes
The Mother Hubbard Case
The Case of The Red Headed League
The Case of the Shoeless Engineer
The Case of the Split Ticket
The Case of the French Interpreter
The Case of the Singing Violin
The Case of the Greystone Inscription
The Case of the Laughing Mummy
The Case of the Thistle Killer
Radio Bonus: The Living Doll
Disc #6 -- Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection
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Episodes
The Case of the Careless Suffragette
The Case of the Reluctant Carpenter
The Case of the Deadly Prophecy
The Case of the Christmas Pudding
The Case of the Night Train Riddle
The Case of the Violent Suitor
The Case of the Baker Street Nursemaids
The Case of the Perfect Husband
The Case of the Jolly Hangman
The Sherlock Holmes Posters

These films are of excellent quality-- they are crispy clear and do not have the grainy appearance of previous releases. This particular set is PAL, though, and you must have a region-free dvd player to play this (or a PAL player!). In the U.S., the set is called The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection and is available for one hundred and nineteen! So, obviously, this is a better deal at almost half the price of the U.S. version if you have the correct player to play the dvds.

However, if you go to Amazon.UK, this set is only £27 with £3 postage. That works out to about sixty dollars total. And, they ship right away-- you will receive it within a week. Some of the sellers on here are selling the set for almost seventy dollars USED! The best thing to do is to purchase it new through Amazon UK. Also, when I purchased it, it was selling for only £23, plus £3 shipping. That made my total only about fifty dollars-- so watch out for a couple of days to see if there is a price decrease.

This is a marvellous set of all 14 films that Rathbone and Bruce made together.

The remastering is excellent and the difference is quite dramtic compared with some other versions of the same films that I have. Recently I made a direct comparison between the two versions of "Terror By Night" and the improvement is dramatic.

As previous reviewers have said Rathbone and Bruce work very well together and Dr Watson has some wonderfully funny lines, which if not Conan Doyles original lines, still work very well nevertheless. Some of the acting is occasionally a bit wooden, and sometimes the plots are a bit contrived (again I don't think this is Conan Doyles fault) but even so these are classic films regardless.

This set makes all previous boxed sets of Rathbone and Bruce (of which I own one) completely redundant. Buy this one!!

After seeing the new Robert Downey Jr/Jude law Sherlock Holmes movie with my wife, I decided to get her these as one of her Christmas presents.
The movies are good quality, we'll written, directed and acted. Just great for a winter's night in. At this price you can't beat it.

I absolutely love Sherlock Holmes Featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, NOTHING gives me a better evening than watching Sherlock Holmes back to back.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection
IF YOU ENJOY THESE CLASSICS AS MUCH AS I THEN YOU WILL LOVE THIS SET.
I FELT AS IF I WAS VIEWING THEM FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE IMAGE WAS AS IF I WAS IN THE THEATER. FOR I ONCE PAID TO GO SEE "THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES" AT THE OLD ORSON WELLES CINIMA IN CAMBRIDGE MA. IT WAS A TRUELY A GREAT EXPERIENCE TO SEE IT AS IT WAS MENT TO BE VIEWED.
DON'T WAIST TIME GET THIS SET NOW. YOU WILL NEVER REGRET IT!
SOME HAVE COMENTARYS THAT TAUGHT ME THINGS I NEVER KNEW, A SHORT AND A CARTOON, AS IF YOU WERE IN THE MOVIES.
galland26

I found most of the movies very good but found there are some with no audio and watched the as silent movies. All in all the set was very good.