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Bookmark this pageThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Director: Alfred Werker
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From Time Out Film Guide
Second in the Rathbone/Bruce series, after which it shifted from Fox to Universal, modern dress, and wartime uplift. The deer-stalkered one is here up against arch-enemy Moriarty, who has fiendish plans to commit that most heinous of all crimes: the theft of the Crown Jewels. Lightly likeable and beautifully mounted, the film succeeds thanks to some witty dialogue (Holmes to Moriarty: 'You've a magnificent brain. I'd like to present it pickled in alcohol to the London Medical Society'), and to nicely nuanced performances from Rathbone, Bruce and (as Moriarty) Zucco.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Alfred Werker
Producer: Darryl F Zanuck
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino, George Zucco, Alan Marshal, Henry Stephenson, Terry Kilburn full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 81 mins
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