BASIL RATHBONE BEERS UP TO TV ADVERTISING

[bbdupon]

Old Basil came to drink, he did, eh? .

[peterwatsonkent]

3 months ago...hahahahaha great

[BiGoDeLsKi]

that's my dude right there

[billthestinker]

please insert the scene where Basil drains his bloated bladder back into the beer glass

[ziggycat999]

How times have changed : Folks don't spend evening at home in suits and ties. Most of us don't sit up watching a whole movie...we lie down. Actors nowadays can't sip or shallow the alcoholic product in commercials. And finally......I think Basil Rathbone has a low threshold of entertainment if he thought that shitty movie was a one bottle event.

[Gjeorje]

"...Well..."-Liese Beer -Making television seem tolerable. "Watson, fetch me spares, I`ve wet `em again..."

[CDeanWatcher]

I'm sure he was just drinking water.

[LJBCRT]

I'd have him plastered in the final break sequence, slurring his speech and getting pissed off...

[dapoetmaster]

I guess he was on beer number 5 by the end?

[pablo4115]

i know that when i want to chill out in the evening i like nothing more than to put on my best suit, a shirt and tie, and keep the jacket buttoned for the entire movie.

what could be more relaxing?

[bobk1951]

I hope at least it was decent beer that Basil was drinking.

[skitch88]

i like how the TV screen was just a hunk of unfinished  wood.

[PeterFirthFan]

He never drank that.

[cantankerouslandlord]

He may have whored himself, but at least he got to slam free beer. I counted three. At one point, just before the second intermission, he almost drops the glass! (LOL)

Old boozehound.

[cantankerouslandlord]

1st Intermission: "Now, let's enjoy the feature film." (gulp)

2nd Intermission: "Now here's the first intermission of our show. Enjoying yourselves?"

(gulp, gulp) (o.s) "May I have another please?"

3rd Intermission: "N-now, here's the show. (gulp, gulp, gulp)

4th Intermission: "Noow. Uhh. Oh, bollocks! I spilt me bloody beer! G-giss 'notha, mate! (gulp, gulp, gulp - belch! - Ahhh!)

5th Int.: (finishes another glass, throws it at screen) Fuckoff!! (falls off chair, hits floor, face first)

(LOL)

[JubalCalif]

Fascinating clip! Didn't seem to be much of a "feature film" that beer-guzzling Basil was watching! Looked like a lot of blank footage to me. But then I had a headstart on Basil as far as drinking is concerned. Before watching this clip & had quite a few of my favorite drinks. I like to mix vodka with milk of magnesia. I call it a "PHILIPS SCREWDRIVER"!

[malondo7]

OH I Love it!!...I''ll have a Beer with ya Ratters!..

[JiffySpook]

Very entertaining. 'Watson, the needle!'

[invincibleironman3]

Nice. Cant believe Robert Downey, Jr. will reprise his role of Sherlock Holmes.

it would take a true "Iron Man" to match up to Scotland Yard's best!

[PeterFirthFan]

Stupid casting an American.

[SuperOmnicron]

Why not Jude Law as Sherlock Holmes and RD,Jr. as Watson?

Or better yet...Simon Pegg as Sherlock Holmes and Nick Frost as Watson! Now thats casting!

[kensingtonsteel]

Hello Bunty old bean!

Seems you've got the hang of this electric typewriting thing too.Won't catch on of course,nothing faster than a young black boy to send your correspondence.

Am admiring you're new tache old fellow,very fetching.

Bunty,may I ask you how you make your pictures move?My servant boy told me to press control alt and delete when troubled but that only makes the damned thing pause.

My kindest regards to dear Hyacinth.

Yours most admiringly,

Kensington.

[simonferrer]

@kensingtonsteel rotflmao! Good form, old boy!

[inkey2]

wow he really slugs that shit down doesn't he?

[SirMetaKnight6]

LOL the tv is make of cardboard, man people in those days must have been really stupid to be fooled into that !

[skullylove]

The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!

[Findelglorin]

Ha ha! I had no idea he was whoring himself to sell beer. I remember him in the old Sherlock Holmes films, he was great. Also in Robin Hood.

Could never imagine him as a beer pitchman though, he looks so uncomfortable.

[simonferrer]

I agree that he looks uncomfortable as hell appearing in a commercial, but I doubt he had a choice. With the advent of James Dean, Marlon Brando and the method school of acting in the 50s, polished, theater trained actors like Rathbone and Vincent Price were no longer in high demand. They had to get work anywhere they could, which is why Price starred in so many costume driven potboilers and Rathbone started hawking beer. It sucked, but at least they kept working and paid their bills.

[PeterFirthFan]

A lot of the old classical actors seem over the top nowadays, but I think Basil's acting still seems quite modern.

[4L60E]

favorite movie "Casanova's Big Night" with Basil and Bob Hope.

[PeterFirthFan]

Films don't get much better than The Pearl of Death.

[archimagine2000]

Man never drank a Duff in his life!

[JiffySpook]

I genuinely laughed out loud at that.

[WKRPinCINN]

Basel the lush, watch him chug that beer.