>>annoying Wesley kid
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!
I do wish Nigel Bruce hadn’t portrayed such a naive, but sweet, Watson. In canon he’s quite competent.
“I do wish Nigel Bruce hadn’t portrayed such a naive, but sweet, Watson. In canon he’s quite competent.”
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I think many of the second bananas in mystery movies of yesteryear were bumblers to a more or lesser degree. Kind of a template of the era, especially during the 30s. Comic relief.
But Nigel was goodhearted and diligent as Holmes sidekick, which carried him thru the role quite well.