
I love a good buddy flick, and it made me start to think about what historical TV shows and movies could fit into that criteria. So let me show you the Top Five Buddies in Frock Flicks that I came up with!
Lucius Vorenus & Titus Pullo

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

Holmes & Watson

Darcy & Bingley

Jeeves and Wooster

There could be many more options for this list, so share some of your favorites in the comments!
Holmes & Watson are delightful. And I agree, Basil makes the best Holmes.
Mr Rathbone is very, very good but I personally feel that Mr Jeremy Brett JUST inches him out in a photo finish – and it’s only fair to acknowledge that for Mr Brett himself Mr Rathbone was always THE Sherlock Holmes.
This is Vasily Livanov erasure and I take much umbrage.
(I actually think Brett is the best, but I do prefer Livanov to Rathbone.)
Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles. :)
Oh yes quite!
Honourable mention to the Three Musketeers (and D’Artagnan): a list of frock flick buddies without Athos, Porthos, Aramis and their young protege just feels incomplete!
Danny Dravot and Peachy Carnahan?
Withnail and I Withnail and I Withnail and I Withnail and I!
Hear, hear!
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… Here HARE here!
I was going to reply with a further quote – because obviously in my head I think about W&I every day. Actually every day something about not being an expert on bulls or that we have failed to paint it black or that I will never play the Dane..
But then you’d reply with further quality quotes – and really every line is quotable isn’t it? And so much of that film speaks to me of getting old, of lost friendships, of misplaced youth.
And we’d occupy this message thread and get blocked, which would be awful and silly and.. and..
The costumes are great too!
Hope and Crosby.
Solo and Kuryakin (Man from U.N.C.L.E. , tv series…not the Guy Ritchie trash film)
I mean, the iconic black turtleneck alone!
Thanks, I just disappeared down a
David McCallum internet wormhole !!!
A few years ago I saw a really cute movie called Dear Eleanor about two teens who travel across the country to meet Eleanor Roosevelt; those characters were called Max and Ellie. I’ll add them to this list. Also, I think we have to include Annie and Sandy–pets count as buddies!!!
Aubrey & Maturin
Buffy and Wilow!
Butch and Sundance?
Ray Stevenson. as Titus Pullo. is the reason I keep returning to rewatch Rome.