Among literary figures whose adventures have been translated to the screen, none have appeared as often as Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle’s pipe-smoking rationalist — the “consulting detective” ...

As three silent cases for Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth emerge in new restorations, we place a magnifying glass over some of the finest Sherlock Holmes dramatisations to grace big screens and ...

Peter Cushing seems like the perfect person to play the Doctor. He was and is an icon of genre film. The supremely talented British actor portrayed some of horror literature’s best-loved heroes and ...

Think of it the greatest detective of all time almost thwarted by an unexpected fog. That’s what happens in The Hound of the Baskervilles, a 1959 film directed by Terence Fisher. Peter Cushing appears ...

Has anyone amazing ever taken on the role of Sherlock Holmes? Let's just think about this for a second. Well, there's... Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Cushing, Jeremy Brett, Robert Downey Jnr, Basil ...

Benedict Cumberbatch may be the defining Sherlock Holmes of this century but that hasn’t stopped others from trying to do new ...