John says on 4/Nov/11
It's all about camera angles. Rtahbone was 6'1 or 6...

danR says on 1/Oct/11
I'm a big Basil Rathbone fan, but:

I have seen the Holmes movies many many times, and Rathbone is well under Hoey's 6'3. He's not an inch shorter by any means. Hoey often seems to tower over him, and never looks LESS than an inch taller than Rathbone, and then he's probably relaxed. I'm often thinking to myself something like, 'geez Hoey must be pretty tall...'. I'd say Rathbone was at best 6 foot even, no taller, no matter what he said.

He may have been 6'1 in his youth, but by the Holmes series, no. People tend to name their young height to the end of their days, and it was only in my youth I measured myself. I was 5'9 3/4, called myself 5'10, and still do, though that's very unlikely now.