The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (film) in which Holmes is played by Robert Downey, Jr.. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (film) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (released theatrically as Sherlock Holmes in the United Kingdom) is a 1939 mystery-adventure film released by Twentieth Century Fox. It is a pastiche featuring the characters of the Sherlock Holmes series of books written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film is an adaptation of the 1899 play "Sherlock Holmes" by William Gillette, though there is little resemblance in the plots. The picture is the second installment to the series of fourteen "Sherlock Holmes" film series released between 1939 and
Sherlock Holmes pastiches nunca" (2004), where Sherlock Holmes meets Mary Poppins. The Conan Doyle estate commissioned Anthony Horowitz, author of the Alex Rider novels, "The Power of Five" and TV's "Foyle's War", to write a new, uniquely "authorised" Sherlock Holmes novel. Published by Orion Books in 2011 under the title "The House of Silk", the content and title were a "closely guarded secret" before publication. . The BBC's TV series "Sherlock" re-imagines Holmes and Watson (played by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman) as contemporary figures with Watson publishing his accounts of Holmes' exploits online. The US TV series "Elementary" features a modern Holmes