When my girlfriend broke up with me senior year of high school, I spent my spring break convalescing in my basement bedroom, reading Sherlock Holmes stories and listening to old Velvet Underground records. Good medicine, by the way. It's hard to lament an unrequited love when Lord Baskerville is found dead on the moors and Lou Reed is waiting on his pusherman.
Ever since, I've been a stalwart Sherlock Holmes fan (VU, too) and have followed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective in all his incarnations. The recent big-budget Hollywood treatment with Robert Downey, Jr., was my favorite popcorn movie of 2009, and I'm digging the BBC's new Sherlock, which updates the action to contemporary London and stars the gloriously-named U.K. actor Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role.
Here's the complete list of films included in the set:
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
The Spider Woman (1944)
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