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Post by David A. Riley on Jul 8, 2019 18:47:09 GMT
I watched The Invisible Horse last night and, to be honest, it just recomfirmed for me why I never took to Hodgson's Carnacki stories. Interesting to watch but, despite a valiant effort by Donald Pleasance as Carnacki, it was pretty dire, especially the denouement. It was very much a Scooby Doo moment.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 9, 2019 13:13:34 GMT
I didn't even make it all the way to the end of The Horse of the Invisible when I tried to watch it on Sunday night. I was particularly put off by seeing Carnacki in a cardigan.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jul 10, 2019 11:24:00 GMT
I watched The Invisible Horse last night and, to be honest, it just recomfirmed for me why I never took to Hodgson's Carnacki stories. Interesting to watch but, despite a valiant effort by Donald Pleasance as Carnacki, it was pretty dire, especially the denouement. It was very much a Scooby Doo moment. Even with their admitted plotting deficiencies, I like most of the original Carnacki stories. For instance, in the first story "The Thing Invisible", Hodgson effectively conveys Carnacki's state of fear, which is not true of most horror stories.
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Post by ripper on Jul 12, 2019 11:02:29 GMT
I have a copy of The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, edited by Sir Hugh Greene, and published in 1970. As far as I am aware, the TV series from 1971 used the same stories as the book. Greene also edited Further Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, which I assume formed the basis for the second TV series. He also edited Cosmopolitan Crimes: Foreign Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes.
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