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From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Canons - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 22-Sep-84 19:29:37 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 22 19:29:37 1984
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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).
-- 

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