“…like a painting by a Renaissance master (his profile reminds me always of Michelangelo’s study for the head of Leda), with such vibrant colour, such dark grey eyes and sooty lashes, such cream and olive skin, and the lithe body of an athlete. He is perfection, but he has eaten the fruit, is a David, with knowing eyes, and he bestows himself like a royal gift, expecting royal tribute in return…”
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I am obsessed with old time movie stars and my faves are Errol Flynn, William Powell and Basil Rathbone! I love this blog.
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Gorgeous.
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I’ve been browsing this blog fora while today. I was never a big Basil fan, but am a Holmes buff, and I have to say you have piqued my interest in the Basil series now. Never rated them because of the appalling Watson.
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……don’t worry Nigel Bruce, we love you.
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Great stuff.
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Oh my. Oh my oh my.
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Lovely, thanks!
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very sexy
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Hot indeed.
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what does Agate mean
“he has eaten the fruit, is a David, with knowing eyes, and he bestows himself like a royal gift, expecting royal tribute in return…”
I don’t understand what he means
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OMFG – he was all man wasn’t he
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Unfi Cheesecake (OMG I am going to call myself that!)
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LOL
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His eyes…oh his eyes
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Very lovely man. I watched him in Love From a Stranger yesterday. So charming and loveable, and strangely vulnerable even when you know he’s a psycho-killer.
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yes I agree, there is that quality of vulnerability or lost child about him, especially in his early films, and yes it’s even there in Love From A Stranger
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When he leans against her bosom and says “never leave me darling” oh you just cry
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I love that part, you want her to rescue him. Is he at all sincere at that moment do you think?
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Yes,very sincere.I just want to say that some killers make loving,devoted husbands.I for one would have overlooked that fault and taken him in.
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I go weak at the knees for him in that film even when he’s going to kill her, when he’s kneeling down and she jumps up and he grabs her so he’s holding her almost on her butt and then spins her round. OMG he’s so strong and she’s so helpless and it’s just….BASIL PLEASE GRAB ME LIKE THAT *dies thinking about it*
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did you see the great gif of that?
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paddyfitz did it on tumblr
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OMG me too. Someone on tumblr made a gif of i and I was like dfhhjfgjkk!!!
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I didn’t like love from a stranger that much, the only good scenes were the ones that involved Basil 😀
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Drooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool…………
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he he yes!
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HOT man!
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Hubbahubbahubba….I want to devour his young flesh off his bones – and those gorgeous words! Sooty lashes, cream and olive skin. This man was gay right?!
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Basil, marry me in that tux, with that look in your eyes!
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he can’t he’s marrying me in that tux first 🙂
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I had a dream I married Basil once. Only once we were exchanging vows he turned into just a picture of himself in my hands. My dreams must really hate me. ;_;
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He was classically beautiful. Agate was gay of course, with a penchant for beautiful boys.
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I was wondering what the history of that photo is?
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I have absolutely no idea where it comes from or when it was taken – sorry. Maybe someone else out there can help?
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It would be interesting to track down actually. He looks very young, but then he was looking like a gawky boy until he was nearly forty! (hey maybe he really did have a portrait in his attic) – 🙂
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yes 😀
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He could have played Dorian Gray at this age!
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That is one part I would have loved to see him play. His potent mix of knowingness and sexual energy and yet vulnerability would have been perfect for that part when he was a young man.
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HIS. EYES!
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Sexy animal
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THANKS to Cherryice and to the Baz. Perfect. Beautiful.
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Oooooooooft
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I just read “shortchanged”..wow I feel so ripped off!How wonderfull it would have been to see Basil in a jousting sceen.I also feel the coment about Basil in the shower is tacky…Nudge..nudge..wink..wink..then there are those white pants and hightop boots worn by Esteban. ;}
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Do NOT get me started on those pants an top boots – he’s like a fetishist dream!
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Frenchman’s Creek with his last scenes with Joan Fontaine,he’s in shirt,boots,hair hanging down and incredibly sexy as he fights with her to the death.And those eyes.
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I also like seeing him with his shirt open or off.As in Rio and The Adventures Of Marco Polo.
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I found another really interesting Basil/Sherlock fanfic! It’s not slashy, but it’s a bit graphic about the injuries he sustains.
http://www.angelfire.com/wizard/dianetaylor/
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All those descriptions of injuries just make me sad for him. I want my Basil-Sherlock to be strong and free and winning, not humiliated and beaten and imprisoned.
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Tad creepy don’t you think?
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it’s weird but I kinda liked it
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NOT a fan of hurt/comfort whatever the crap that is
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eew broken bones do not turn me on
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…Sounds more like a creepy pasta than a fanfic..
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He must have been really something special on stage to receive such words by James Agate.
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Please visit Robert Matzen’s Errol and Olivia blog this week on Basil as Sir Guy. It’s called “Shortchanged.” Here’s the link: http://errolandolivia.com/blog/?p=418#respond
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I am making a picture out of this quote instead of doing my homework!
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well, like I said before, this boy has no reason to feel ashamed in the showers 😀
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He was so handsome and by the looks of the above picture, well hung too!
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Do you kiss your mother with that mouth? Shame on your impure thoughts! Seriously, as attractive as Basil is, we could keep all of this on a higher plain.
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Hee sorry! I won’t post what I was thinking 🙂
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Rosy darlin’ – it’s just right there! What’s a boy (or gal) to do? But my lips are sealed herein angel 🙂
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I guess I was just focused more on his gorgeous eyes. That’s what I look at first in a man. I’ve spent the past few months stalking this site trying to figure out what made this intelligent, gentle and mysterious guy tick, and I think it has to do with more than his nether regions. As a woman, I think I’d be pretty upset if all people focused on were my butt or my breasts and not what’s going on in my head or heart. It’s hard to figure out what crosses the line of admiring a physically beautiful person and objectifying.
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Timely reminder – he was a person, not an object of gratification. Lovely as he was.
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Very well said, it’s really not appropriate to make comments like some of the above
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Well someone was going commando – wouldn’t we all if we were so nicely endowed.
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Hush now everyone. Enough with the manhood-comments. Not setting the right tone 🙂
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OMG! I noticed that too and I was like – whoa is that the edge of his jacket? But he’s wearing a tailed tux and the jacket finishes at his waist, and you can like see the way the material is puckered that it’s…what you’re talking about! 😀
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Gorgeous….And having just seen The Adventurees of Robin Hood for about the thousandth time, I must say that in 3-strip technicolor, you can really see the beauty of his skin tone and eyes in his prime.
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I agree. I always loved his coloring, the description is so right – the contrast of the pale olive skin and grey/blue eyes is stunning. Imagine him in real life. Stunning he must have been.
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Too true
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