Why do we all seem to remember Basil Rathbone as a really stoic and serious Sherlock Holmes? ...

Why do we all seem to remember Basil Rathbone as a really stoic and serious Sherlock Holmes? Because I (re)watched a couple of his movies recently and yes, he’s more serious than some of his successors, buthe’s still Holmes and that means he’s a massive, unrepentant troll. Hell, his version of The Hound of the Baskervilles was changed so that Holmes is an even bigger troll than he was in the source material, AND his last line in the movie is to ask Watson to hand over the co...