Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!rick From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Canons - (nf) Message-ID: <334@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 22-Sep-84 19:29:37 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.334 Posted: Sat Sep 22 19:29:37 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 04:36:17 EDT References: <1058@ucla-cs.UUCP> <46400002@convex.UUCP>, <1366@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 24 Jeff (moriarty) was wondering how, at the end of the Basil Rathbone version of "Hound of the Baskervilles", the closing line "Come, Watson, the needle" (or "Quick,...") got past the censors, since it obviously referred to Holmes' use of cocaine. My memory is that it didn't (for very long) and that this is why HOTB was not shown for many years -- I saw it for the 1st time in 1980, and I saw every other Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes film repeated ad nauseum years earlier on TV in Chicago. Does anyone know whether the film actually was suppressed or not? By the way, before people begin suggesting that this discussion belongs in net.tv or net.movies, let me point out that it's part of the discussion of literary canons, for which SH stories certainly qualify. I agree that the SF stuff should be in its own group (which I read also). -- Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!rick 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 "No, this is getting hit on the head lessons in here." "What a stupid concept!"