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Sherlock : Roger Moore<br />
Watson ; Patrick Macnee<br />
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The opens with Sherlock (Roger Moore) confronting Professor Moriarty (John Huston) and telling him that he has just broken up his organization. Moriarty tells Sherlock that he will get even with him.
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Sherlock and Mr. Watson later get torn up theater tickets in the mail and Irene Adler in starring in the New York play. She always sends Sherlock opening night tickets. What did Moriarty have to do with this? Sherlock knows he is going for his one weakness.<br />
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Sherlock and Watson meet Irene (Charlotte Rampling). Her son has been kidnapped. Sherlock is told to not help the police when they approach him on a new case or the boy will die. The police then approach Sherlock a room full of gold that has been stolen but Sherlock has to refuse to help them.<br />
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Sherlock rescues Irene's son and then helps the police with their case.<br />
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At the end, after Sherlock's triumph, Irene hints at Sherlock being the father of her child and then gives him a picture of him.<br />
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Not bad, but the production values for this TV movie was only fair, and with Roger moore, John Huston and Charlotte Rampling it should have been much better.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526500954285862675.post-36754338788957331042015-11-12T12:50:00.000-08:002015-11-12T12:53:47.391-08:00Sherlock Holmes (1916)<img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-555e1d16/turbine/ct-sherlock-holmes-william-gillette-essanay-cinematheque-20150521" height="300" width="400" /><br />
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Holmes : William Gillette<br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: #fcfae7; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">The discovery of a lost film is probably just as exciting as the movie itself. In 1899, William Gillette, who had adapted pieces of "A scandal in Bohemia", "The Final Problem" and "A Study in Scarlet" in to a successful stage play, which he starred in called "Sherlock Holmes." Gillette had asked Arthur Conan Doyle if he could add a love interest for Holmes, and Doyle who was sick of Holmes at this point told him "You may marry him, or murder him or do what you like with him." </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 11.2px;">I</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fcfae7; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">n the play Gillette popularized the deerstalker cap and curved pipe which become associated with Sherlock Holmes.</span><br />
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Holmes : Ian McKellen<br />
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The movie, set in 1947 has a 93 year old Sherlock returning from a trip to Japan where he has been searching for something that will work better to help his fading memory than the royal jelly he has been experimenting with.<br />
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Sherlock has one last mystery he has to grapple with, he can't remember his last case. Dr. Watson had chronicled it, but Sherlock knows that wasn't what really happened.<br />
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Sherlock spends his time keeping bees, and he is looking to put the memories of his life in order. Why had he retired to this farm in the country. Why did he stop working? Sherlock tries to sort out the details of his last case.<br />
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Sherlock goes to the movies to see one of the Basil Rathbone films to see if that would jar his memory. Nicholas Rowe, who portrayed Holmes in the 1985 film <i>Young Sherlock Holmes plays</i> the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes in the clip shown on the screen. Sherlock tells his housekeeper's son Roger that the movie was rubbish. It didn't help his memory at all.<br />
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Sherlock begins to get flashbacks of the case thirty years earlier involving Ann Kelmot. He feels really guilty. He knows something very bad must have happened to force him in to retirement for thirty five years.<br />
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Sherlock finally solves the mystery of what really happened in his last case and ties the strands of his life together. John Watson, Mrs. Hudson, Mycroft: they are all gone now, but Sherlock is able to put his life in perspective. Sherlock also solves a mystery that has been bothering him about his bees.<br />
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Sherlock finally develops empathy and marks the end of hi life with two noble gestures.<br />
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Ian McKellan was great as the elderly Sherlock and the movie was very reverential in tone and very well done. I think it was great that the movie made Sherlock appear as a real character who watched in amusement at his fictional portrayal in film.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526500954285862675.post-52591461871035356272012-11-06T09:53:00.000-08:002013-01-29T02:45:11.471-08:00Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)<p>
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Holmes : Robert Downey Jr.<br />
Watson : Jude Law <br />
Professor Moriarty : Jared Harris
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Dr. John Watson: [voice-over] The year was 1891. Storm clouds were brewing over Europe. France and Germany were at each other's throats, the result of a series of bombings. Some said it was the Nationalists. Others, the anarchists. But as usual, my friend Sherlock Holmes, had a different theory entirely.
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Set in 1891 and Europe was in turmoil. Sherlock, in disguise, follows Irene Adler and foils her latest plot, but they still have a date for dinner. Irene goes to talk to Professor Moriarty and he is not happy with her relationship with Holmes. He tells her he will no longer require her services.
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<p> Om his wedding eve Watson comes over to see Holmes and Holmes tells Watson about the nefarious things that Moriarty is up to. It is a shadowey game that he and Moriarty are involved in. On the way over to a stag party Sherlock forgot to organize, they meet Mycroft and Sherlock tries talk Watson out of the marriage. Sherlock stops an assassin and Watson gets drunk and gets in a fight. Holmes and Watson show up at the wedding beat up and in tatters, but they show up, and Watson gets married.
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Holmes is asked to visit Moriarty at the college, and he does. Then on his honeymoon an assassin comes after Watson. Holmes shows up and to get Watson's wife to a safe place he shoves her off the train. Now it is Holmes and Watson again.
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More shannanagans follow as Holmes, Watson and a gypsy girl try to foil Moriarty's plan to start a European war so that he can make money selling them weapons. Lots of shooting, fighting and action.
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In his review Roger Ebert says: "It's Downey's movie. With his cool, flippant manner, his Holmes stands apart from the danger, thinking it through visually before performing it, remaining insouciant in the face of calamity. He appears in many disguises, one with a markedly bad wig, another as a remarkably convincing chair. The thing to do, I suppose, is to set aside your memories of the Conan Doyle stories, save them to savor on a night this winter and enjoy this movie as a high-caliber entertainment."
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I think Roger Ebert is right. This really isn't a Sherlock Holmes movie. Holmes, as in the preceding Ritchie movie, has almost super human powers as he can sense and foresee what his opponent will do. His mind works as a computer as it charts out his moves for him. Holmes instead of deducing things, pulls things out of his bag of tricks, Very different than the traditional Sherlock Holmes.
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<p> Pretty good movie, but once again that was not really Sherlock Holmes. You can see in the IMDB description - Action - Adventure - Crime. What you don't see is the word Mystery. Well written, with witty dialogue and quips. But the attempt to "modernize" the Shelock Holmes character almost loses him completely.
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Holmes : Rupert Everett<br />
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Holmes finds a stocking in the victim's throat. Then a Duke's daughter is killed in the same manner and a stocking appears again. Watson is back helping Holmes and his fiancee, who is a psychiatrist, has some interests in common with Holmes. While at the new victim's funeral another young girl, who is only thirteen, is snatched.
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Holmes interviews a suspect and then has the police fingerprint him. When Holmes walks the suspect, Charles Allen (Michael Fassbender) out, the young girl sees him and starts screaming. But his fingerprints don't match and he has alibis for each of the times of the abductions.
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Holmes sets a trap using one of the victim's sisters. Charles Allen falls for the trap and drugs the girl. A disguised Holmes rescues the young girl. It seems as if the case is over. Holmes feels there must be an identical twin. The fingerprints will clear it up.
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When the fingerprints don't match Holmes is puzzled but he knows the young girl he used as a decoy is in trouble. Charles Allen drugs the girl and takes her out of her room before they can get there.
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They figure out now they are twins, but they are both in on it. Watson comes up with the answer and finds out the place where he might be. Holmes and Watson find the girl and Charles Allen, but he has a knife to the girl's throat. Holmes talks Allen out of the killing but then his brother shows up to help him.
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A good Sherlock Holmes movie,, much more faithful to the originals, then the recent big budget ones that have been released.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526500954285862675.post-85726469555336740032012-04-29T14:53:00.000-07:002015-11-11T14:40:12.513-08:00The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002)<br />
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Holmes : Richard Roxburgh<br />
Watson : Ian Hart <br />
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This English TV version begins with a retelling of the Baskerville legend describing the curse on the Basskervilles that seems to have just brought on the death of Sir Charles Baskerville. Sir Henry Naskerville is coming in from Canada to claim his inheritance. "As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor" is the message he gets upon arrival. Sir Henry has inherited over 1 million pounds.
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Besides the Hound, there is also a dangerous escaped criminal loose on the moors. There was a seance scene where Sir Charles talked through a lady, pretty scary. Then the creature came to the window. Next the escaped convict comes in to the house. Watson then discovers that Holmes has been on the scene, spying undercover. Watson is not happy to have been tricked.
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When Sir Henry turns up dead, Holmes blames himself but then they discover it isn't Sir Henry, but the convict in Sir Henry's clothes. Holmes then surmises that Jack Stapleton (Richard E. Grant of <i>Withnail</i> fame) is really a Baskerville from his resemblance to a picture of an ancestor on the wall. The Hound then attacks Sir Henry, and Holmes and Watson kill it after it has badly mauled Sir Henry.
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Lestrade arrives and arrests Jack Stapleton, who is really John Baskerville, who was Sir Charles illegitimate son, and next in line to the Baskervill fortune.
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I thought Ian Hart played a good, smart Watson, but Richard Roxburgh was not a good Holmes. Overall, a decent movie, even though it was not too fateful to the Doyle story. Richard E. Grant made a good villain and seeing Watson as a stronger character than Holmes was also interesting.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526500954285862675.post-92082063659674417172012-04-20T06:31:00.000-07:002015-11-12T13:06:58.470-08:00The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)<br />
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Watson : Robert Duvall <br />
Moriarty : Lawrence Olivier
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<b>Sigmund Freud</b>: Who am I, that your friends should wish us to meet? <br />
<b>Sherlock Holmes</b>: Beyond the fact that you are a brilliant Jewish physician who was born in Hungary and studied for a while in Paris, and that certain radical theories of yours have alienated the respectable medical community so that you have severed your connections with various hospitals and branches of the medical fraternity, beyond this I can deduce little. You're married, with a child of... five. You enjoy Shakespeare and possess a sense of honour. <br />
<b>Sigmund Freud</b>: It's wonderful.<br />
<b>Sherlock Holmes</b>: Commonplace.
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I will watch, and enjoy, any movie that has Lawrence Olivier and Robert Duvall but this movie also happens to be about one of my favorite characters, Sherlock Holmes. The movie based on the Arthur Conan Doyle stories, but based on a book by Nicholas Meyer.
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The movie opens in 1891 and is giving the "facts" behind Holmes' disappearance for three years. When Watson (Robert Duvall) shows up at 221B Baker Street, he hasn't seen Holmes in four months. When he gets there Holmes is ranting about Moriarty and seems to have gone over the edge. Holmes was now going to the needle for his seven-per-cent solution more often than ever.
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And then Moriarty shows up to talk to Watson. He explains that Holmes is persecuting him. He follows him around and sends him messages. Moriarty explains that he was both the Holmes boys math tutors. He then explains that then the "tragedy" happened, but refuses to explain it.
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Knowing that he has to free Holmes from his addiction, Watson solicits Mycroft's aid and he convinces Moriarty to go to Vienna. Once there, Watson arranges a meeting with Sigmund Freud. Freud tells him that he is there so he can try to help him with his addiction, which he has freed himself from. Freud hypnotizes Holmes to try to reduce the need for the cocaine.
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During the withdrawal Holmes suffered and had many hallucinations but eventually his fever breaks and he begins to feel better. Holmes admits that :the only time that Professor Moriarty occupied the role of my nemesis was when it took him three weeks to make clear to me the mysteries of elementary calculus."
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When Freud brings Watson to his athletic club, he is challenged by a Baron von Leinsdorf as a Jew, signifying that the club must have gone down hill since he was last there. He then makes reference to Freud's theories that young men sleep with their mothers. Watson then challenges the Baron, but Freud steps in to fight his own battle. But rather than duel with swords, he chooses the tennis racket as his weapon of choice and they play a tennis game in a racket ball type court.
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The movie does drag a little in the second half as Holmes tries to solve a mystery and Freud tries to solve the mysteries of Holmes life and in particular what event in his unconscious is driving him to use cocaine. The first mystery is a little weak, but the mystery involving Holmes' unconscious is interesting and well done.
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A very good movie, although not based on the original Doyle stories, it is an excellent addition to the Sherlock Holmes movie list.
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Holmes : Charlton Heston<br />
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Sherlock Holmes: When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. <br>
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Charlton Heston, late in his career, takes on the role of Sherlock Holmes in this made for TV movie based loosely on <i>The Sign of the Four</i>. Set in 1897 in London, the story begins with Watson writing the story, which he says due to its nature he is going to leave unpublished.
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The story really begins thirty years before, in 1867 India, during the Great Mutiny. One of the Indian soldiers asks a British office to help him seize a maharajah's treasure during the confusion of the rebellion and he agrees to join in.
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<p> When he is caught in the act, he lets two other officers join in but they have to kill two of the Indians. The men form a pact to never tell what has happened.
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<p> When we first meet Holmes he is being castigated by Watson for his drug use, which is brought on his his inactivity. Then Irne St. Claire appears and looks to get Holmes help with her father, Neville St. Claire, who was one of the officers involved in the theft from the maharajah. Her father lives under the fear of a curse, and is now a helpless opium addict. When he needs money he goes to his fellow conspirator, Alistair Ross.
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When Sherlock pays a visit on Ross with the parchment Irne had received, with a Crucifer (cross) written in blood with the oath the men took long again. The third man involved in the pacr Jonathan Small is missing, and a mysterious man shows up asking about the jewels and then an ape-like creature shows up, and Ross is killed, poisoned by a thorn.
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<p> The movie drags a little, but has good production values and has a pretty good surprise ending. Overall, well worth seeing.
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Holmes : Raymond Massey<br />
Watson : Athole Stewart <br />
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Raymond Massey takes on the role of Sherlock Holmes in this early movie. Sherlock is a little bit different here having an office with three secretaries and a computer like device.
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The movie opens up with Violet Stoner deciding to quickly marry her fiance who is being called away with work for a year. She was going to inherit money from her parent's estate, but she dies before the marriage can take place. Her last words were "The Speckled Band."
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Violet's sister Helen has now become engaged and she begins to fear her step-father, Dr. Rylott. When he tries to make her sleep in her sister's room, she goes to Sherlock Holmes for help.
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When Sherlock comes to the estate he examines the room and finds some strange things going on.
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The movie sticks pretty close to the original Arthur Conan Doyle story, and is pretty well done. Gypsies, India, and snakes all make their way in to the movie.
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This was Raymond Massey's first credited film and he did very well. It's a shame he didn't get another chance to play him later in his career. The film quality of the movie wasn't too good.
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Sherlock Holmes: From your clothes I would deduce - you're going to a wedding. <br>
Dr. John Watson: At last I've got you. For once in your life you're wromg. <br>
Sherlock Holmes: Wrong? <br>
Dr. John Watson: I'm not going to a wedding! I'm coming from one! <br>
Dr. John Watson: [Watson again enjoys a hearty laugh] <br>
Sherlock Holmes: Give them my congratulations or perhaps condolences. <br>
Dr. John Watson: Rubbish! We all come to it, my dear fellow. <br>
Dr. John Watson: [he laughs again] We all come to it. Goodbye. <br>
Sherlock Holmes: [alone after Watson has left] Not all, my dear Watson... not all.<br><br>
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Holmes : Christopher Lee<br />
Watson : Thorley Walters <br />
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An import from Germany which has English actor Christopher Lee's voice dubbed back in English. Lee makes a good Holmes as he once again pursues Professor Moriarty.
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One of Holmes informants is killed on the way back to deliver him a message but leaves a clue for Holmes and Watson to follow. Holmes discovers that a Cleopatra's necklace, discovered by archaeologists has been stolen by Moriarty. When Holmes meets with Moriarty, the Professor asks Holmes to former a partnership with him. Holmes tells him that he hopes to see him hanged.
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<p> The movie probably was better in the original German. The dubbed voice of Holmes was particularly distracting considering how much of the Holmes character is dependent on his verbal ramblings.
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Thorley Walters went on to play Dr. Watson again in <i>The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother</i>.
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<p>This was not a great entry in the series, but Lee did make for an interesting Holmes.
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Holmes : George C. Scott<br />
Watson : Joann Woodward<br />
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<b>Dr. Mildred Watson:</b> You're just like Don Quixote. You think that everything is always something else. <br>
<b>Justin Playfair:</b> Well, he had a point. 'Course he carried it a bit too far. He thought that every windmill was a giant. That's insane. But, thinking that they might be, well... All the best minds used to think the world was flat. But what if it isn't? It might be round. And bread mold might be medicine. If we never looked at things and thought of what might be, why we'd all still be out there in the tall grass with the apes.
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Justin Playfair (George C. Scott), a former judge, thinks he is Sherlock Holmes and his psychiatrist Dr. Mildred Watson is fascinated by his case. Joining the story of Don Quixote on to Sherlock Holmes story. Playfair is quite convincing as Holmes, but his brother can't wait to commit him but he needs Dr. Watson's signature.
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Playfair helps the underdogs and fights against the corrupt institutions, all with his pipe in his mouth. Playfair can identify with other psychotics and can think like they can. A man who won't talk is analyzed by Holmes/Palyfair as Rudolph Valentino, the silent film star. Once introduced, Valentino begins talking.
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Justin Playfair was a 'great reformer, always out to make things better", but when his wife died he became Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is trying to find Moriarty, who he blames for everything evil in the world. When Holmes analyzes Watson, she is stunned by his genius and disturbed by his insights.
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When Mildred introduces herself as Dr. Watson, he is the one fascinated. She is now part of the team. Holmes and Watson set off on a series of adventures as Holmes searches for Moriarty. Dr. Watson is trying to save Playfair, from his brother who wants him committed so he can get his money. The movie then takes a turn towards romance between its two leads.
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A really good movie with two great actors buying in to their roles. The interaction between the two is just great to watch. The movie does slow down in the last third, but still well worth seeing.
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<p>This movie tried to solve many of the mysteries behind the Sherlock Holmes persona. Why Sherlock took drugs, why Sherlock would never get involved with women, how he met Dr. Watson and even how he got his hat and pipe. It tried to answer all these questions but it didn’t explore the one thing that made him so interesting – his brilliance.</p>
<p><br />It showed a fighting Sherlock but he was presented as a second rate wit and that wasn’t too enjoyable to watch. The most exciting characteristic of Sherlock is his brilliance and it wasn’t on display here.</p>
<p><br />The movie does present a very competent and helpful Dr. Watson. In this regard it was more faithful to the Conan Doyle stories than the Rathbone movies, but it wasn’t as much fun. Sherlockians will admire the portrayal but I’ll take Nigel Bruce. The comic relief he gave those movies was a big part of their charm.</p>
<p><br />I also wasn’t thrilled with James D’Arcy as Sherlock. Although he played a young Sherlock, he still didn’t seem to capture the essence of the man. On the other hand, I thought Vincent D’Onofrio’s Moriarty was very well done.</p>
<p><br /> I also didn’t think the movie did a good job of capturing Victorian England. Most of the outdoor shots looked like they were filmed on a stage.</p>
<p><br /> Overall a decent movie, worth seeing, but nothing special.</p>
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Holmes : Basil Rathbone<br>
Watson : Nigel Bruce<br>
Moriarty : George Zucco<br>
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This movie was based on the William Gillette play which began touring the US around 1899. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce were great as Sherlock and Dr. Watson, George Zucco was also really good as Moriarty.br><br>
The story was very entertaining as Sherlock again matches wits with the Professor. The Professor, who lives to outwit his only true rival, again outwits Sherlock by taking advantage of one of his weaknesses. the Professor says, "Holmes, you only now barely missed sending me to the gallows. You're the only man in England clever enough to defeat me. I'm going to break you. I'm going to bring off right under your nose the most incredible crime of the century, and you'll never suspect it until it's too late. It'll be the end of you Sherlock Holmes."br><br>
Watson is again the perfect observer of Holmes' brilliance and is also a great element of comic relief, as he is in all of the movies in this series. At one point Holmes says of him : "Whatever Watson has found out, you'll know inevitably. I have unbounded confidence in his lack of discretion." The movie also stars Ida Lupino as a woman in need of help.br><br>
It's the little things that make these movies so charming and clever. Holmes trying to discover a musical note that will drive away flies, Holmes in disguise singing a song, Holmes taking a carriage on a wild ride. <em>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</em> is a movie that has held up really well.
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Holmes : Basil Rathbone<br>
Watson : Nigel Bruce
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This was the last of the fourteen movies starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and his loyal companion, Dr. Watson. I thought it was very well done. Sherlock really shows off some of his logical skills as he battles a group of counterfeiters. The music boxes mystery was a nice problem for Sherlock to solve.<br><br>
Dr. Watson is again the perfect partner to Sherlock as he unwittingly supplies Sherlock with clues to solving the problems before them. This device, though not part of Conan Doyle's stories, was an integral part of the movies.
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Holmes : Basil Rathbone<br>
Watson : Nigel Bruce<br>
Moriarty : Henry Daniell<br>
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Another very good entry in the Rathbone - Bruce partnership. Henry Daniell made for a very good Moriarty (although the screen credits spelled it Moriarity).
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Dr. Watson again plays for the part of comic relief. He wasn't much help in solving this one.
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Inspector Grgeson : What's the lady look like?<br>
Holmes : About 30, nice figure, blonde hair, lustrious eyes.<br>
Watson : Really, got her phone number?<br>
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This movie didn't have much of a plot but there was hypnotism, drugs, cut off fingers and blackmail. And there was Professor Moriarty. Holmes did some of his iconic things - he played the violin and smoked his pipe.
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Holmes doesn't show much pity for the Professor who seemingly dies again :
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Watson : "An evil man Holmes, but what a horrible death."<br>
Holmes : "Better than he deserved."
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Holmes : Basil Rathbone<br>
Watson : Nigel Bruce<br>
Moriarty : Lionel Atwil<br>
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Sherlock battles the Nazis in this propaganda war film made in 1942. Sherlock starts out the movie in disguise as an itinerant bookseller.
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A Swiss inventor of a bomb sight for airplanes, which may change the course of the war, is rescued from the Nazis and then protected by Holmes and Watson.
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Watson, for all his buffoonery, saves Holmes again by observing how heavy a trunk two men were carrying was. He also inadvertently provides the clue that cracks the secret code.
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Lionel Atwill makes a great Professor Moriarty.
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I love the patriotic endings to these movies. One can only imagine how the English audience felt in 1942.
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Dr. Watson: "Things are looking up, Holmes. This little Island's still on the map."<br>
Sherlock Holmes: "Yes. "This fortress - built by nature for herself; This blessed plot, this Earth, this realm, this England."
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Holmes : Robert Stephens<br>
Watson : Colin Blakely<br>
Mycroft : Christopher Lee<br>
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This has to be the best of all the Sherlock Holmes movies. Directed by the great Billy Wilder, this movie brings us the iconic Holmes, playing the violin, smoking his pipe and reaching for his needle in times of pain and boredom. It showed the private life of Holmes, the life that didn't make it into the pages of Strand magazine.
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It showed a Holmes who was human, but it also remained faithful to the Arthur Conan Doyle character. It showed us a Holmes who had been disappointed in love. He says to Watson, "You've given the reader the distinct impression that I am a misognist. Actually, I don't dislike women, I merely distrust them."
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The movie had an interesting, twisting plot with a nice part for Christopher Lee as Mycroft Holmes. It also had midgets, canaries, monks, the Queen and the Loch Ness monster.
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But most interestingly it had an vulnerable Holmes, outsmarted by a woman who he seems to fall in love with.
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Holmes : Basil Rathbone<br>
Watson : Nigel Bruce
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The first of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies, and one of the best. In this movie we are introduced to Holmes with the deerstalker hat, the violin, the disguises and the ability to tell things about a person by just looking at something they owned. We are also introduced to Dr. Watson, who is not bumbling here, but more faithful to the character portrayed in the books.<br><br>
The movie is fairly faithful to the book and takes place on the moors of Devonshire. The plot is simple but as in most of the movies in this genre the fun is watching Holmes and Watson.<br><br>
The last line of the movie, "Oh, Watson, the needle! ", was edited out in many early versions of the movie.
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Holmes : Peter Cushing<br>
Watson : Andre Morell<br>
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A good version of the story with an opening sequence that shows Sir Hugo Baskerville murdering a young girl which brings down the curse on the family. Peter Cushing plays a pretty good Sherlock and Andre Morell plays a serious Dr. Watson.The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)<br><br>
The production values for the story were good. The costumes and sets were bright and colorful. Christopher Lee does a good job playing Sir Henry Baskerville.<br><br>
The story does seems to veers more towards horror than it does towards mystery and is different than most Sherlock Holmes movies.
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Watson : Ben Kingsley<br>
Moriarty : Paul Freeman</div>
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Gentlemen I accept this case. My fee will be five hundred pounds -- payable in ten pound notes."
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<div style="text-indent:14pt;">Dr. Watson is a brilliant criminologist but he was interested in getting into a prestigious medical society so he hires an actor, Reginald Kincaid, to play detective for him. Reginald, who takes on the role of Sherlock Holmes and gets famous as Watson writes the stories for Strand Magazine, is a drunkard, a gambler and a womanizer. The first half of the movie is really good as Holmes plays the role and Watson roles his eyes at him.</div>
<div style="text-indent:14pt;">Michael Caine does his usual great job at playing the drunk and Ben Kingsley does a good job playing the frustrated Watson, who would like to get rid of his creation but cannot. There are a lot of good lines in the first half of the movie as Sherlock and Watson battle more than they partner.</div>
Holmes: As a matter of fact, Lestrade, You can be some help.<br>
Inspector Lestrade: Of course!<br>
Holmes: Hold my coat, it's hot in here.<br>
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Holmes: Ah, gentlemen. And what can I do for you? A mystery to be solved?<br>
Thug: You might say that. There's a little matter of a gambling debt, and the mystery is why you ain't paid it.
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Watson: Holmes believes your father has been abducted.<br>
Leslie: Abducted? By who?<br>
Sherlock Holmes: Abductors<br>
<div style="text-indent:14pt;">Unfortunately, the second half of the movie is nowhere is good as the first. Sherlock steps up to help Watson battle Moriarty but the story and the writing descends into mediocrity.</div>
<div style="text-indent:14pt;">The first half of the movie which is a comedy works really well, the second half which is more of a mystery isn't as good. Still, overall a pretty good movie with two great actors. Needs to be seen by Sherlock Holmes fans.</div>
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Holmes : Basil Rathbone<br>
Watson : Nigel Bruce
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The movie starts very much like <em>The Hound of the Baskervilles</em>. There is something that is out there. The music is eerie. Two sheep have had their throats torn out. Soon the Lady Penrose is found dead. Luckily Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are in Canada at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Occult Society.<br><br>
One hundred years ago there were murders at La Morte Rouge and now they are starting again. Holmes gets a letter from the dead woman who had a premonition of her death. Holmes comments to Watson, "Consider the tragic irony: we've accepted a commission from a victim to find her murderer. For the first time we've been retained by a corpse."<br><br>
Holmes and Watson begin the investigation without the help of the husband, who quickly becomes a suspect. Watson gets drunk with the locals at the pub. He fills them in on his detective abilities. When he finds Holmes is out on marsh by himself he rushes to join him (where he falls into a bog), Meanwhile Holmes sees glowing creature running across moor and fires at it. He finds a glowing piece of cloth.<br><br>
We find out that the psychopath killer is a former actor, playing a variety of roles in town. He uses a claw to kill his victims. He had been in love with the Lady Penrose. He corners Holmes at gun point but a bumbling Watson again saves the day.<br><br>
An excellent movie.
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The war time movie ends with the following exchange :<br><br>
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Sherlock Holmes</span>: Relations of friendly intimacy with the United States on the one hand and their unswerving fidelity to the British commonwealth and the motherland on the other. Canada, the link which joins together these great branches of the human family.<br>
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Dr. John H. Watson</span>: Churchill say that?<br>
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Sherlock Holmes</span>: Yes, Watson, Churchill.
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Holmes : Basil Rathbone <br>
Watson : Nigel Bruce
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The movie opens up with the newspapers on the London streets reporting the current rash of "Pyjama Suicides." Where is Sherlock Holmes people are asking. He is in Scotland fly fishing with Watson.
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Watson: I'd say hadn't we better get back to London at once with all this murder afoot?<br>
Holmes : I'm sorry, Watson, the pleasure of the chase are no longer for me. I'm through with crime now and forever. <br>
Watson : You, you don't mean that. <br>
Holmes : Yes, unfortunately. <br>
Watson : But why? <br>
Holmes : Watson I have a confession to make to you. I'm no longer equal to it. Lately I've been subject to the most alarming dizzy spells.
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When Holmes faints and falls in the river, the death of Sherlock Holmes in broadcast in all the papers. Dr. Watson and Mrs. Hudson sadly reminiscence about Sherlock. Sherlock walks in disguised as a messenger. He says some negative things about Sherlock and Watson punches him in the face.
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Sherlock explains why he faked his death :
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Sherlock Holmes: Directing them is one of the most fiendishly clever minds in all Europe today. I suspect a woman. <br>
Dr. John H. Watson: You amaze me, Holmes. Why a woman? <br>
Sherlock Holmes: Because the method, whatever it is, is particularly subtle and cruel. Feline, not canine. <br>
Inspector Lestrade: Popycock. When a bloke does himself in, that's suicide. <br>
Sherlock Holmes: Unless a bloke is driven to suicide; in that case it's murder. <br>
Dr. John H. Watson: Driven? That *sounds* like a woman, doesn't it? <br>
Sherlock Holmes: Definitely - a female Moriarty. Clever. Ruthless. And above all, cautious.
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"If we are to set a trap for this femme fatale I see no reason why we shouldn't bait it with the kind of food she likes." Holmes says. He sees a pattern that all those committing suicide are gamblers. So he puts a blurb in the paper about a new arrival from India. Sherlock shows up at the gaming tables with a turban and a beard. He is met by the Spider Woman, Adrea Spedding. When he loses at the table she offers him a loan if he will "temporarily" name her as beneficiary of his life insurance policy.
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It doesn't take The Spider Woman, played by Gale Sondergaard , too long to figure out who he really is and she is soon plotting his real death. A huge spider makes its way in through the window and towards Holmes' bed. Holmes smashes it before it reaches the dummy he had in the bed. This is how the suicides have been committed.
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When a spider expert shows up in a beard and glasses Watson thinks it is Holmes in disguise and tries to pull off his beard.
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Adrea Spedding comes to visit Holmes. She says she wants Holmes help to find Rajni Singh, who was the character Holmes played. It is a game of cat and mouse and they both know it. "Till we meet again." "Soon I hope." While she was there she poisoned both of them and then started a fire in their place. But Holmes drags Watson out and saves them both.
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Holmes : Watson, if you ever see me getting too sure again, fancying myself more clever then Adrea Spedding. Just whisper one word to me.
Watson : What word, Holmes?
Holmes : Pigmy
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The movies last scene are at a side show as Holmes searches for his pigmy. Holmes finds the Spider Woman. Holmes takes some shots at the shooting gallery at Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini. The Spider Woman and her henchmen capture Holmes. They tie him up and put him behind the Hitler billboard at the shooting gallery. Lestrade and Watson are getting ready to take a turn shooting. A great scene. The irony of it with Watson about to kill Holmes. Holmes escapes and captures
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Watson : Holmes where have you been all this time.<br>
Holmes : I've been going round and round in a circle.<br>
Watson : A circle?<br>
Holmes : Yes but my heart wasn't in it. <br>
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The movie only runs 63 minutes, but it is really good. Probably the best of the Rathbone series.
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Holmes : Basil Rathbone<br>
Watson : Nigel Bruce
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A secret document that is being transported from England to the US by an English agent is intercepted and Holmes and Watson join in the chase to find the document before it falls into the wrong hands.
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Watson reads a book on American mannerisms on the flight over and is soon using slang, chewing gum and drinking milk shakes.
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Following a matchbook that has Holmes has figured out has the microfilm in it, Holmes travels around antique shops in Washington, DC, looking for clues. When he finally finds the bad guys he is saved by Watson who comes crashing through the doors with the police. Watson actually shoots and kills one of them.
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Not a great plot but enjoyable to watch. Particularly interesting to see DC in 1943. After this movie, the Rathbone series never made it back to America,
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Sherlock Holmes: This is a great country, Watson. <br>
Dr. John H. Watson: It certainly is, my dear fellow. <br>
Sherlock Holmes: Look. Up there ahead. The Capitol - the very heart of this democracy. <br>
Dr. John H. Watson: Democracy - the only hope for the future, eh, Holmes? <br>
Sherlock Holmes: It is not given for us to peer into the mysteries of the future. But in the days to come, the British and American people for their own safety and the good of all will walk together in majesty and in justice and in peace. <br>
Dr. John H. Watson: That's magnificent. I quite agree with you. <br>
Sherlock Holmes: Not with me. With Mr. Winston Churchill. I was quoting from the speech he made not long ago in that very building.
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<P>Dr. Watson : "Simple reasoning, a child could do it."<br>Holmes : "Not your child, Watson."<br>Dr. Watson " What? I never had a child." </P>
<P>Dr. Watson is serving as resident doctor at Musgrave Hall in Northumberland, a stately home which is also used as a hospital for a number of officers suffering from shell shock. </P>
<P> Watson enlists the help of Holmes after his assistant is attacked. Inspector Lestrade also arrives after the first in a series of murders which seem to be tied up with an ancient and apparently meaningless family ritual. Sally must recite the centuries-old ritual over her murdered brother's body. Holmes realizes that the words (queen, bishop, king, knight) in the ritual describe movements of chess pieces, which are in fact clues to the location of something. Since the black and white floor of the main hall resembles a chess board, Holmes has the rest of the household move as human chess pieces. </P>
<P> He then goes in to the cellar beneath where the last move landed him and finds the crypt of a knight, Ralph Musgrave, in which is hidden an ancient land grant signed by King Henry I. Also in the tomb is the body of the butler. Holmes devises a plan to lure the killer back to the tomb later that evening. He lets the murderer get the upper hand on him so that he will confess to the murders. He faces death to get the confession.</P>
<P>Dr. John H. Watson: We thought you were taking an awful risk. <br>Sherlock Holmes: Well, we had to have a confession. And these egomaniacs are always so much more chatty when they feel they have the upper hand. </P>
<P> Holmes then fakes his own death and allows the killer to leave -- but he walks right into the hands of Lestrade and his policemen. </P>
<P> By the time the mystery is solved, Sally Musgrave, who could be one of richest people in England, has decided to give her property back to the people who are living on it. This sets up another of Holmes' great patriotic curtain speeches. </P>
<P>Sherlock Holmes: There's a new spirit abroad in the land. The old days of grab and greed are on their way out. We're beginning to think of what we *owe* the other fellow, not just what we're compelled to give him. The time is coming, Watson, when we shan't be able to fill our bellies in comfort while the other fellow goes hungry, or sleep in warm beds while others shiver in the cold. And we shan't be able to kneel and thank God for blessings before our shining altars while men anywhere are kneeling in either physical or spiritual subjection. <br>Dr. John H. Watson: You may be right, Holmes... I hope you are. <br>Sherlock Holmes: And, God willing, we'll live to see that day, Watson.</P>
<P> Overall a good movie with an interesting chess theme and a good scene of Holmes being shot to death (with an empty gun).</P>
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Dr. Watson : Nigel Bruce
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"This man pervades Europe like a plague, yet no one has heard of him. That's what puts him on the pinnacle in the records of crime. ... In his whole diabolical career, the police have never been able to pin anything on him. And yet, if there be a crime without a motive, I'll show you Giles Conover! ... If I could free society of this sinister creature, I should feel my own career had reached it's summit."
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This was the ninth film in the Rathbone/Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes films, was inspired by the Conan Doyle story "The Adventures of the Six Napoleons." In the first scene of the movie we see the giant pearl. It is quickly stolen from the courier of the Royal Museum, Naomi Drake has stolen it. She meets Giles Conover when she gets off the boat. He tells her that The Creeper is back at the flat
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When she goes to show him the Pearl she sees a note from Sherlock Holmes, saying that he is returning the Borgia Pearl for her.
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Sherlock, back at Baker Street, tells Watson that the Pearl is as "Real as death old fellow. With the blood of twenty men upon it down through the centuries." He then tells Watson about Naomi Drake and Giles Conover.
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Sherlock doesn't feel good about the security at the museum. As he is shows the museum staff how easy it is to disconnect the wired alarms to the Pearl, the Pearl is stolen. The museum blames Holmes for this tragedy. Lestrade enjoys the turn of events and kid an unamused Holmes and Watson about it. The police capture Conover but he doesn't have the Pearl on him. Lestade detains Conover and Holmes suggests that Conover be allowed to receive food from the outside, by which he will try to send a message back out to his confederates as to where the Pearl is.
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As Holmes plays the violin back at Baker Street the message does get out. Watson is mad that once again, Holmes fiddles, while his reputation crumbles. Watson has punched a newspaper man who cast wrote badly about Holmes. When Lestade stops by to tell them Conover has been released he tells them about a murder of a man who has had his back broke. Holmes immediately knows what it means. The Oxton Horrow has returned. "A monster Watson with a chest of a buffalo and the arms of a gorilla. His particular method of murder is back braking and it's always the same, the third lumbar vertebrae." When the Creeper, played by Rondo Hatton (who would reprise this role three more times in non-Holmes movies before his death two years later) comes on the screen late in the movie, it is something of a shock.
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There is a great scene where Watson tries to impress a disguised Giles Conover with his deductive abilities. Conover leaves a booby trapped book for Holmes. When Holmes returns he smells a cigar and then analyzes the ashes of the Cuban cigar. He knows that the visitor was Conover and he sets off the booby trap.
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Another murder, another victim with a back broken, and smashed china all around the body, again. Why the smashed china? Another murder, another broken back, more smashed china. Holmes analyzes the china and recognizes statues of Napolean in all three murders. Holmes investigates and finds that there were six busts of Napolean in a shop near Conover's escape and he must have hidden the Pearl in one of them. Holmes can account for five of the busts but discovers the location of the sixth. Holmes soons discover that the address is a forgery - someone has changed it. Naomi Drake calls Conover but Holmes listens in and gets the real information. We also get our first glimpse of the Creeper, in the shadows with Conover.
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Holmes has Naomi Drake taken into custody. With ten minutes to go in the movie we finally see the Creeper. He accompanies Conover to the house where the sixth bust is.Holmes is already there and in disguise. Holmes tells the Creeper that it is Conover's fault that Naomi, who the Creeper loves, has been caught. With five minutes to go in the movie we finally see the Creeper in the light. The Creeper turns on Conover and breaks his back. Holmes shoots and kills the mute Creeper as he advances on him.
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Holmes ending dialogue references the greed in the world (not mentioning Napolean or Hitler but clearly pointing at them).
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Holmes : The Borgia Pearl with the blood of five more victims on it.<br>
Watson : Well anyhow Conover is one of them.<br>
Holmes : What's Conover. No more than the symbol of the greed and cruelty and lust for power that have set men at each other's throats down through the centuries and the struglle will go on Watson for a pearl, a kingdom, perhaps even world dominion till the greed and cruelty have burned out every last one of us and when that time comes perhaps even the pearl will be washed clean again.
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