A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. A fem fatale pits her its against Sherlock Holmes to find the secret code and retrieve the forged plates for bank of England notes before the police and Sherlock Holmes.
Thanks for posting such great films.Hope there is more sherlock holmes to come in the future.I dont know what it is about these old films that I enjoy.Maybe its the idea of looking back through a window of time and the realization of how much simplier life was.Any way sorry for rambling just wanted to say I enjoyed these very much. Thank you for sharing these great pieces of cinematic history with us.
Excellent movies “great mate”,hope there’s more coming. Thank’s Kevin.
I must say to see Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce one again
is Fresh air –The Craft–so named By Bela Lugosi, in 1936.
This film is a Classic of all the Mystery Films. The joy of seeing The all Time Great Performance -Sherlock Holmes-
& Hurry Watson, the Games afoot,–or Elimintary my dear Watson,—there was two Gentlemen Jeremy Britt & Edward Hardwick–who commanded the Art as Sherlock Holmes, &
Watson–sadly Jeremy Britt died, and Sherlock Holmes, it appears died with Him, –they were the Masters of the–Craft–
& I applaud them the respect they are due-so I say Bravo–I loved to see you & hear the words, Elimintry my Dear Watson
quite elimintry dear fellow—need I say More—Colonel
Everyone to their own opinion and I agree that Jeremy Brett & Edward Hardwick were 1st. class, who incidentally are shown almost every day on I.T.V.3 here in my Country ( Scotland), but the Laurel Leaves must go to Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce.My Teenage Years would never have been the same without them. Please Kevin try and slip in another one or two.
I loved the Jeremy Brett – Holmes shows. Unfortunately, those will never be shown here. Nor will any of the Rathbone Holmes movies other than the ones that are here. I dislike handcuffs
Really, I’d give posthumous laurel leaves to Brett. If there is a Holmes more Holmsier
than Basil Rathbone, it is absolutely the manic depressive, chain smoking Brett.
Touche,but each generation to their Champions and mine was Rathbone. What I’d give to be able to go back 60 years and be midway through my Teenage Years and watch them all again. Kevin your Site brings back lots of Golden Memories.Thank You and more Power to your Elbow.
I am in my mid-forties, so my experience with the Rathbone films is from cable tv and the late show. Until Brett, Rathbone was the quintessential Sherlock, but the Brett revival was a welcome addition to the Arthur Conan Doyle legacy.
I very much enjoy the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies, but I think I like Brett’s performances as much.
If you didn’t notice, there is a collection containing all of the Rathbone/Bruce films here:
These were remastered at the UCLA film restoration lab and are prints of the highest quality.
To each his own so I’ll gladly settle for a Draw no scoring. Keep up the good work.
Goodnight
Big Alex.
Yep. I’m just glad we have all of the above for a little mild entertainment
It’s elementary my dear responders. I do go back far enough to have seen Rathbone/Bruce in theaters! I have also seen the entire Brett/Hardwicke series. Dr Watson was written as a near equal in intelligence and mental acuity as Holmes. He was NOT a bumbling fool as Bruce portrayed him and this has always irked me. Therefore we have a winner in Hardwicke and it is a tossup between Rathbone and Brett but since I grew up with Rathbone it’s kinda hard to accept anyone else as Holmes. It’s like all these other 007’s. If it isn’t Sean Connery it isn’t the REAL 007!
Elementary or not my dear Shadow your opinion is valued and welcome to “Memory Corner”.I myself have been irked by the Portrayal of Bruce as the Village Idiot but perhaps that was to make Holmes more outstanding,also to add a touch of humour to the Script. Remember at this time the World was at War and Laughs were few and far between.
As I sit perusing my Complete Annotated Sherlock Holmes, I am again reminded of the extreme diversion of Bruce’s Watson from Conan Doyle’s writings. IMHO, Rathbone plus the usual outstanding performances by those portraying his adversaries in any of the movies, requires no Bruce/Watson whatsoever! I don’t believe then or now I have ever found his bumbling to be humorous. Perhaps I know Conan Doyle’s stories too well. As to WWII, I did spend a few hours in the theaters; going blind! It was a different world. Each studio had their own theaters. We would just go from one to another. Same day. How about a Saturday morning of 2 full length movies, comedy short, serial, musical short, news, buy War Bonds, and a bouncing ball sing-along to cheer us up. All for the princely sum of $0.15, which was acquired from the return of glass bottles having a return deposit, due to the war. I truly feel sorry for the kids of today!
I forgot the up to 10 cartoons too!! Now I know I’m getting old!
And the stage show and the prizes! No, I’m not making any of this up. This is any single Saturday morning. Stay tuned and I may come up with what the prizes were! I may need the Wayback Machine!
It was almost the same here on a Saturday forenoon and the Returnable glass bottles & jars were a boon.I take it you reside as the Provincials would say in the Brave New World of the Americas while I reside in the Old World. Times were hard all over and the 30s & 40s were no exception.Having a Father fighting in the War meant that Money was a very scarce commodity in our house and if it came to choice between food and entertainment the latter never won.Still being a boy and an only Son I soon found out that the best thing that ever was Invented was a Mother. How rhis got from Sherlock Holmes to Glass Bottles I’ll never know ( please do’nt say Elementary) I think now we are on a “Runaway Train” and I think now that the Station Master Kevin should come in and voice his opinion.
Kevin your advice please after all this is your site.