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Movie Info
In London, Lady Margaret Carstairs (Mary Forbes) and her son, Roland (Geoffrey Steele), engage renowned detective Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to accompany them back home to Scotland as protection for their priceless gem, the Star of Rhodesia. When Roland turns up murdered and the Star disappears, Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) investigate -- only to discover another murder, and a strange connection with Watson's acquaintance Maj. Duncan-Bleek (Alan Mowbray).
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Genre: Mystery & thriller
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Original Language: English
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Director: Roy William Neill
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Producer: Roy William Neill
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Writer: Frank Gruber
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Distributor: Universal Pictures
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Production Co: Universal Pictures
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Only a bit of a story, and a challenge, in this next to the last go-round for Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as the movies' classic Holmes and Watson. A big shiny rock, and a murder done in its theft, are the driving impetus of the story. The cast and crew are old hands at this stuff by now, and so not a lot of effort is given here, and it shows. But they were quite correct in that the old formula does indeed still work, the chemistry is there, and so not a lot of effort is needed. Not bad.
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I for one think Basil Rathbone played the best Sherlock Holmes. This movie has Holmes and Watson on a train en route from London to Edinburgh, They are there to protect The Star Of Rhodesia. A huge Diamond held by the Carstairs family. Of course we are lead to believe the diamond is stolen, and has Holmes bundled the case. There are so many suspects in this 60 minute classic. The ending provides quite a twist. I'm sad to say the film I watched was not a UCLA 35mm "restored" process team edition, but some company taking advantage of this film being in public domain and the film quality showed. You can also watch this film here on Flixster for free. Even though film quality was so poor, it was still worth 4 stars as a Holmes Classic.
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Basil Rathbone is as great as ever and Nigel Bruce is as much of a bumbly mess as ever.
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I will have to agree with Henrik Shunk ,another Flixster user. I am not a big fan of the Rathbone versions of Sherlock Holmes. "They are very pulp, render Watson to a doofus and are usually extremely patriotic (Holmes was British !). Anyhoo this is one of the better films Rathbone/Bruce made. The usual mix of sleuthing, screwball humour and film noir visuals. Highly recommended if you are a fan of Holmes or the classic whodunnit. The conclusion is a bit obvious though."
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