Love those old boarding homes where you rented a room and got a hot meal and some varied conversation at or away from the breakfast table. The characters are so very entrancing: their histories compelling and engaging. The idea of a shadow on the stairs lends a sense of late 1930's mystery.
I too love those old boarding homes. Where you rented a room full of rat's and the toilet was outside , and you got Spam for breakfast , lunch and bloody dinner! Varied Conversation about starving half to death and no money for even a bowl of baccy for your pipe. Characters so very entrancing where they meddle in everyone's business. The idea of "A shadow over the stairs" lends a sense of thank f*ck I wasn't born in the 1930's.
That was a delightful movie! It really kept me guessing, and the ending was such a surprise! The British really knew and know how to make a good movie! Thank you so much for posting!
I'm glad I watched this all the way to the end, it actually WAS a surprise ending! The end was the best part, but only if you watch from the beginning. At first I thought, " my, so many people coming and going in this big house". I could take issue with a few things that didn't make sense though, like....... But, all in all, good acting and story.
Much appreciated Mr. Scott Lord. Any work of the Sherlock Holmes theme is always more than welcome.....I have seen this some time around ten years ago. The bed pineapple hiding place was my give-away, my recall. Still, I'm keen to watch again...
Movies were 10 cents/adults...and this would have been one of the "double features" along with a cartoon, news from around the world...and possibly a raffle held on stage for the audience. thanks for posting!! NM
I really enjoyed this little movie. It was well written and put together without any apparent clue to the twist at the end. Thanks Scott I just subscribed and will be watching for more.
3 of these actors played in M.G.M’s 1940’s Pride and Prejudice the Binghleys were played by Mrs. Armitage and the playwright and Kitty Bennet by the daughter.
Very enjoyable film featuring many of the actors who played roles in the Basil Rathbone - Nigel Bruce versions of Sherlock Holmes. It was a joy seeing Miles Mander and Paul Cavanaugh. The RUclips title is a bit off but it did get me to watch this interesting minor film, so thanks.
Enjoyed this very much especially with alot of the actors that usually play villain's on the Sherlock Holmes movies with the Real Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce !!
Yes, you won't see Basil, as fine an actor and "Sherlock Holmes" as can be. But the plot is intriguing, the acting compelling. The sound track is clear, clean. Worthy of more than a disgusting glance...in my opinion.
I enjoyed this. Not Sherlock Holmes but a good little movie. Very 40's and Paul Cavanagh and Miles Mander were both in The Sherlock Holmes Films with Nigel Bruce and Basil Rathbone. Very well thought of British Actors. Miles Mander was also in Wuthering Heights...
Loved this movie. Like a French farce - people coming in and out of doors and windows and listening at doors and hysterical women and melodramatic confessions - twist at end. Fun. It should be called "Eight or Nine Shadows on the Stairs." Kick back and enjoy.
Anthony Allen Truth be told the Inspector should have said "you're trying to be a 'Mr Watson!" NOT "...'Sherlock Holmes'..." as it was Watson and not SH that makes elementary contributions and wrote the stories that became the books/plays/films. IMO
Very entertaining, as good a Sherlock Holmes mystery....NO ARROGANT HOLMES ATTITUDE. and Unlike in Holmes movies No one made to seem stupid (Watson) in order to make Holmes appear brilliant. THANK YOU FOR THE WONDERFUL UPLOAD.
I enjoyed the film, too, and was thinking about how it all would be like as a stage play (which the movie was indeed based on, as I recall the beginning credits), especially the rapid verbal interplay among the characters....
Why deliberately use Sherlock Holmes' name in the title if it is not a Sherlock Holmes movie? That's intentionally misleading for anyone searching for Holmes movies. And "without Rathbone"? How about "Lord of the Rings - Adventure without Harrison Ford"? Just as helpful. Why the need to trick people searching for specific things into watching a movie that has none of what they're looking for?
This film, MrAlumni72, was produced by UFA, and filmed at Babelsberg Studios, Berlin, four years before Basil Rathbone hung-up his costume as the Sherriff of Nottingham, and became Hollywood's Holmes in the equally-excellent film that spawned the cinematic series, which was later shown on television, worldwide. I feel sure that there was not the slightest intention at the time by the Germans, let alone the film's director Karl Harte, to mislead the cinema-going public here - and remember, in those days each country routinely kept their films to themselves much more than is the practise today - but rather it was a satirical comedy-drama, made for home-consumption (and a very successful one); starring the biggest star-names in the truly German cinema of the day. Personally, I see similarities in the film suggestive of the devices which were later used to equally good-effect in the Hollywood movie *Butch Cassidy and the Sun-Dance Kid*; and I'm speaking particularly of the camaraderie between Hans Albers and Heinz Ruhmann, which was so *human* and touching in the over-view. The most-refreshing thing about this fine work - made at the zenith of the Nazis having hi-jacked a previously-free, enlightened and technically-advanced nation comparable with, or even surpassing ours, and turning it into a tyrannical dictatorship - is that there isn't one scrap of political propaganda in it, from beginning to end. It's also interesting to note that Hans Albers stood-out against the Nazis at the time, in their objections to him having a Jewess for a wife - Hitler's adoration for Albers, as the *archetypal* German, saving him and his spouse from the concentration camps - and that the parents of Hansi Tecknot (Jane, in the picture), were members of the anti-Nazi underground resistance. Heinz Ruhmann, beloved of all German actors, was also a covert anti-Nazi, but, even so, after the fall of Germany, in May 1945, he was forced by marauding Russian soldiers to watch, while they repeatedly gang-raped his film star wife, who they stumbled-on in their solitary timber cottage, when combing the woods, outside Berlin.
My apologies, MrAlumni72 - I've got the wrong film in mind; my thinking you were referring to *Der Man Der Sherlock Holmes War*; a German film from 1937, which is also on youtube, and which I strongly recommend you to watch. No, I heartily-agree with your very valid comments on here, as to *Shadow On The Stairs*; the problem I feel being that Rathbone was probably committed to another film at the time, and couldn't make-it for this particular feature, which has the rest of the *Hollywood Holmes Repertory Club* in its cast. Yes it was disappointing, and very definitely misleading. You are dead-right !
Most people don't even know that ALL of thee Rathbone "S.Holmes" movies were completely Wrong. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson existed in A.C.Doyle's books in the late 1800s and slightly into the 20th Century. None of them, Holmes, Watson, or their creator Doyle have ever heard the word "NAZI" in their entire lives. They all disappeared well before WW ONE. The Granada Productions with Jeremy Britt were Arthur Conan Doyle driven. The episodes by Britt were all completely along Doyle's writing - no cars, no telephones to speak of, no Airplanes for sure. Rathbone worked more for the British War Effort than to act for the stories of Doyle.
I picked movie because I thought it was a Sherlock Holmes movie but it was a very enjoyable film nevertheless and I believe the character wrote himself as a Sherlock Holmes .
I think it was directed and played a bit over the top on purpose. Plus there were things from the beginning that didn't make sense, were overplayed and all that bloody movement gave a somewhat of a farcical tone. But with the twist in the end, somehow made it all worthwhile.
Hello dear Scott.Where are you from? What movie do you rrcommend to learn modern English and to speak it naturally? Thank you very much. Greetings from Moscow Russia.🇷🇺
How is this Sherlock Holmes? People... just read the stories! Then watch film versions (or you won't even know when people append the name of SH to things that are completely unrelated in any way...)
What on God's Earth makes you people so important? There is NOTHING in the description saying this IS a Holmes film. Point it out if it's there. Otherwise STOP complaining. You're watching this for FREE because of someone else's work and time. It's one thing to dislike the film. It's another to trash talk the one who made the effort to post. Stop tantruming like a spoiled selfish children. Especially when you're wrong. GROW UP!
I enjoyed the movie, however, as MrAlumni72 said, it is very misleading to use the name of Sherlock Holmes in the title. What's the point other than upsetting viewers? It's not as though you are receiving advertising revenue from this posting. In fact, as said in the Economist magazine, "Conan Doyle's heirs claim that they have the right to extract license fees or suppress publication". If you not careful, you could end-up on the receiving end of a cease and desist order.
This movie really shows the inherent racism in Britian in the 1930s and 1940s. When the Indian Seik character, SIngh, attempts to run away after being confronted by the police, Bromilow takes it upon himself to grab him by the shirt and then punch him so hard that he falls against the railing around the stairs. They both smash through it and fall about 5 ft onto the stairs. In the next scene Singh is lying unconscious, injured and possibly dead on the sofa. Do the police say "Mr. Bromilow, you are under arrest for assault and battery, malicious wounding, and destruction of property"? No, only "You were lucky Mr. Bromilow. You could have been killed!" Bromilow then looks contemptuously at Singh and says "No matter. HE broke my fall!" Yes, Singh turned out to be a traitor, but at this point, none of the other characters knew this.
People were STUPID in the olden days, he quickly picks up the murder weapon. Don't get me wrong I know live watching old classic movie and being middle aged it's a real treat.
Cute. And it was quite unusual for Hollywood to make such a nice movie at this time in history. The comedy parts were understandable - since there were very, very few "evil" movies made that may upset the American Public. Even Charlie Chan, Mr. Moto, and Nigel Bruce's character as Dr. Watson kept people smiling while they were working the factories for war supplies. Oh... Yes >> This was Hollywood USA Made. The only British thing about this were the actors. As were the Sherlock Holmes movies of that era.
As unhealthy to lick a pencil head as to lick an envelope - unless you're a gourmet specializing in lead and glue meals. But yes, that used to be done before ballpoints were in common use.
...it was rather difficult to get to the place where the movie gets good ....if ever. Granted it's not Holmes, but other mystery movies from this period are excellent. This movie was very hard for me to sympathize with any of the characters much less try and tell what was being set up. Maybe I'll try again one night.
Lighten Up..............its an excellent movie and know that they won't make movie like this anymore so, put the political correctness and BS aside and titling and just enjoy it.............this is world is so messed up, that good stuff is hard to come by..........lighten up people............enjoy what we have.
Love those old boarding homes where you rented a room and got a hot meal and some varied conversation at or away from the breakfast table. The characters are so very entrancing: their histories compelling and engaging. The idea of a shadow on the stairs lends a sense of late 1930's mystery.
I too love those old boarding homes. Where you rented a room full of rat's and the toilet was outside , and you got Spam for breakfast , lunch and bloody dinner! Varied Conversation about starving half to death and no money for even a bowl of baccy for your pipe. Characters so very entrancing where they meddle in everyone's business. The idea of "A shadow over the stairs" lends a sense of thank f*ck I wasn't born in the 1930's.
@@jamierennie9099 You're just being rude.
@@patriciajrs46 But hella accurate.
I totally agree, Love everything about these old time films!
Can you imagine that today? Can't trust just anybody that is for sure, not these days. I agree, what they did (had) in the past was very special.
Very lovable murder mystery. No blood, guts, gore, drugs or foul language. Quite unusual from today's movies.
thank you
I know right, just leaves it up to each person's imagination, lol in my case I have a very vivid imagination 😮
I love the lovable murder touch
But I empathise completely with you
That was a delightful movie! It really kept me guessing, and the ending was such a surprise! The British really knew and know how to make a good movie! Thank you so much for posting!
Glad you like it. Please come back soon
A delightful way to spend an hour. Good suspense till the very end. Thank you Scott Lord Mystery for posting this delightful film.
This one is really well done. I especially liked the end.
Nice to hear. Come back soon
I'm glad I watched this all the way to the end, it actually WAS a surprise ending! The end was the best part, but only if you watch from the beginning. At first I thought, " my, so many people coming and going in this big house". I could take issue with a few things that didn't make sense though, like....... But, all in all, good acting and story.
Awesome Film
Helping me get through isolation.
November 18th 2020
Thanks so much for all these great old movies. You are wonderful. Thanks so much!!!
What a nice ending.. for a change. Times like these we need a bit of relief, don't we.
You know it's a good mystery when the ending catches you by surprise! Wonderfully played.
Much appreciated Mr. Scott Lord. Any work of the Sherlock Holmes theme is always more than welcome.....I have seen this some time around ten years ago. The bed pineapple hiding place was my give-away, my recall. Still, I'm keen to watch again...
Aside from claiming it was a Sherlock Holmes film which it is not,this was a damned good watch for a lousy day outside and a fireside chair.
Movies were 10 cents/adults...and this would have been one of the "double features" along with a cartoon, news from around the world...and possibly a raffle held on stage for the audience. thanks for posting!! NM
What a delightful movie...some of the actors were from the Sherlock Holmes's movies. I liked it!
This is the time of year that we really enjoy your movies thank you for downloading them now thanks again from Canada
I really enjoyed this little movie. It was well written and put together without any apparent clue to the twist at the end. Thanks Scott I just subscribed and will be watching for more.
Alphonsus Padavano I liked it too. It was nice to see Paul Cavanagh and Miles Mander again. I'll subscribe.
I saw this movie years ago....was fun to see it again. 😊Thanks
glad to have a film buff here,don't shoot
I love these old films!
thank you. jump back in anytime.
Good movie with a twisted plot revealed at the end; probably one of the first movies to think of it! Entertaining British actors.
Great movie with a total surprise ending! Loved it.
Lovely movie, thanks sharing 🎬
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3 of these actors played in M.G.M’s 1940’s Pride and Prejudice the Binghleys were played by Mrs. Armitage and the playwright and Kitty Bennet by the daughter.
Very enjoyable film featuring many of the actors who played roles in the Basil Rathbone - Nigel Bruce versions of Sherlock Holmes. It was a joy seeing Miles Mander and Paul Cavanaugh. The RUclips title is a bit off but it did get me to watch this interesting minor film, so thanks.
Thanks for the upload
VERY DELIGHTFUL LITTLE MOVIE. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
That was an excellent movie!! Thank you for sharing!
Enjoyed this very much especially with alot of the actors that usually play villain's on the Sherlock Holmes movies with the Real Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce !!
Cute story. Very different from today's movies but loved it.
I've seen Heather Angel many times in "THE PREMATURE BURIAL". Nice to see her when she was really young. Still has "furtive" eyes.
she (Heather Angel) was also in quite a few (I think a total of 5) of the "Bulldog Drummond" Movies series. Very pretty lady!
Delightful!!! The twist was quite wonderful. M. Night Shyamalan would be proud. 😊
Yes, you won't see Basil, as fine an actor and "Sherlock Holmes" as can be. But the plot is intriguing, the acting compelling. The sound track is clear, clean. Worthy of more than a disgusting glance...in my opinion.
It's still a good little mystery, even if it's not a Sherlock Holmes mystery - I liked it!
Loved it! The phrase “sing like a bird “ came to mind
There was more compassion, humanity and friendliness. Thank you for this video!
Wooow wonerful film ,, like it ,, thanks for sharing ,,
Great actors and characters, good misdirection and story line
I'm going to check all four poster beds now.
Who's surprised she picked up the tray after being fired? Man! Stella is hot headed.
Well, that was fun! Thank you.
Thank you
Mr. Singh ....”In my country one is taught to draw a fake mustache on with an eyebrow pencil"
Great film...thank you 👍
Super! If I wasn't misled, I would have, could have, missed this Gem! Oh Ho on have a look!
It's so hard these days to find a lodging house with beds high enough to hide a body underneath.
Delightful old movie. Of which there was very little in this production :) 🎭🎬
I enjoyed this. Not Sherlock Holmes but a good little movie. Very 40's and Paul Cavanagh and Miles Mander were both in The Sherlock Holmes Films with Nigel Bruce and Basil Rathbone. Very well thought of British Actors. Miles Mander was also in Wuthering Heights...
Loved this movie. Like a French farce - people coming in and out of doors and windows and listening at doors and hysterical women and melodramatic confessions - twist at end. Fun. It should be called "Eight or Nine Shadows on the Stairs." Kick back and enjoy.
A nice movie with a good twist at the end:)
A room for a week, meals, clothes, haircut, laundry, what else you need. $ 2.00.
Oh even though Sherlock was not in it , this was still a great film !!
Nick qfn I'm with you on that one --- cheerio! (n_n)
😃 Thank you 👍🥰 Good movie 🎥🎬 Sept . 24 , 2023
i've seen this one before but it was great to c again thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing this. Cant wait to dig in.
Scott Lord has again produced and directed many films, including this one called "Sherlock Holmes-Shadow On The Stairs w/o Rathbone"
Anthony Allen Truth be told the Inspector should have said "you're trying to be a 'Mr Watson!" NOT "...'Sherlock Holmes'..." as it was Watson and not SH that makes elementary contributions and wrote the stories that became the books/plays/films. IMO
Roger Lucas, I was just making fun of Mr. Lord's grammarly words.
very enjoyable! and great ending!! thk u
SO GOOD!!!!!!!! THANKS 5MILL. UPLOADER.
Lovely thank you for the upload!
Very entertaining, as good a Sherlock Holmes mystery....NO ARROGANT HOLMES ATTITUDE. and Unlike in Holmes movies No one made to seem stupid (Watson) in order to make Holmes appear brilliant. THANK YOU FOR THE WONDERFUL UPLOAD.
Loved the ending.
Turhan Bey's Magic Marker mustache was the most comical element of the story.
Very interesting movie. Entertaining.
Wd love to see a play like this on the stage (in the 30s). Film music taken over from the original "melo"dramas with an orchestra in the pit.
I enjoyed the film, too, and was thinking about how it all would be like as a stage play (which the movie was indeed based on, as I recall the beginning credits), especially the rapid verbal interplay among the characters....
Nothing in this movie title claims it is a Sherlock Holmes film
Enjoyed the film and was completely surprised at the ending. Thank you.
Great movie, thanks😃
great movie i loved it
Good one, enjoyed it 👍👍💯💯
Glad you like it
Why deliberately use Sherlock Holmes' name in the title if it is not a Sherlock Holmes movie? That's intentionally misleading for anyone searching for Holmes movies. And "without Rathbone"? How about "Lord of the Rings - Adventure without Harrison Ford"? Just as helpful. Why the need to trick people searching for specific things into watching a movie that has none of what they're looking for?
this reply cracked me up no end.. haha! Harrison Ford in "Lord of the Rings"??? That's a classic numpty reply .. gd one numpty!!! ahahahahahahahaha!
This film, MrAlumni72, was produced by UFA, and filmed at Babelsberg Studios, Berlin, four years before Basil Rathbone hung-up his costume as the Sherriff of Nottingham, and became Hollywood's Holmes in the equally-excellent film that spawned the cinematic series, which was later shown on television, worldwide.
I feel sure that there was not the slightest intention at the time by the Germans, let alone the film's director Karl Harte, to mislead the cinema-going public here - and remember, in those days each country routinely kept their films to themselves much more than is the practise today - but rather it was a satirical comedy-drama, made for home-consumption (and a very successful one); starring the biggest star-names in the truly German cinema of the day.
Personally, I see similarities in the film suggestive of the devices which were later used to equally good-effect in the Hollywood movie *Butch Cassidy and the Sun-Dance Kid*; and I'm speaking particularly of the camaraderie between Hans Albers and Heinz Ruhmann, which was so *human* and touching in the over-view.
The most-refreshing thing about this fine work - made at the zenith of the Nazis having hi-jacked a previously-free, enlightened and technically-advanced nation comparable with, or even surpassing ours, and turning it into a tyrannical dictatorship - is that there isn't one scrap of political propaganda in it, from beginning to end.
It's also interesting to note that Hans Albers stood-out against the Nazis at the time, in their objections to him having a Jewess for a wife - Hitler's adoration for Albers, as the *archetypal* German, saving him and his spouse from the concentration camps - and that the parents of Hansi Tecknot (Jane, in the picture), were members of the anti-Nazi underground resistance. Heinz Ruhmann, beloved of all German actors, was also a covert anti-Nazi, but, even so, after the fall of Germany, in May 1945, he was forced by marauding Russian soldiers to watch, while they repeatedly gang-raped his film star wife, who they stumbled-on in their solitary timber cottage, when combing the woods, outside Berlin.
My apologies, MrAlumni72 - I've got the wrong film in mind; my thinking you were referring to *Der Man Der Sherlock Holmes War*; a German film from 1937, which is also on youtube, and which I strongly recommend you to watch.
No, I heartily-agree with your very valid comments on here, as to *Shadow On The Stairs*; the problem I feel being that Rathbone was probably committed to another film at the time, and couldn't make-it for this particular feature, which has the rest of the *Hollywood Holmes Repertory Club* in its cast. Yes it was disappointing, and very definitely misleading. You are dead-right !
Most people don't even know that ALL of thee Rathbone "S.Holmes" movies were completely Wrong. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson existed in A.C.Doyle's books in the late 1800s and slightly into the 20th Century. None of them, Holmes, Watson, or their creator Doyle have ever heard the word "NAZI" in their entire lives. They all disappeared well before WW ONE. The Granada Productions with Jeremy Britt were Arthur Conan Doyle driven. The episodes by Britt were all completely along Doyle's writing - no cars, no telephones to speak of, no Airplanes for sure. Rathbone worked more for the British War Effort than to act for the stories of Doyle.
dibbledob2 Could you possibly be any more of an ass , or as they say no fool like an old fool .
I picked movie because I thought it was a Sherlock Holmes movie but it was a very enjoyable film nevertheless and I believe the character wrote himself as a Sherlock Holmes .
Watched this on someone else's channel at least he didn't mislead everyone that being said this is a very good movie
Thanks for the post.
I think it was directed and played a bit over the top on purpose. Plus there were things from the beginning that didn't make sense, were overplayed and all that bloody movement gave a somewhat of a farcical tone. But with the twist in the end, somehow made it all worthwhile.
Hello dear Scott.Where are you from?
What movie do you rrcommend to learn modern English and to speak it naturally?
Thank you very much.
Greetings from Moscow Russia.🇷🇺
I was despising Mrs Armitage all the way through this grrrrrrrr. lol
Turhan Bey was a hot item back then... and then there's also all the great Brit character actors...
Raja mustache looks like a kid was playing a joke on him during his disciplined sleep cycle 😁
thumbs up if you knew it was Mr. Armitage before the Constable arrived
The title says "Scott Lord Mystery: Shadows on the Stairs ". No mention of Sherlock Holmes. I don't understand the fuss.
British drama so far exceeds anything that is produced here in the states
Love this movie!
Come back soon
I enjoyed it thanks
More than Welcome!!
Lovely little murder drama with an interesting twist at the end. And no, it is not who the murderer was.
I haven't heard anyone say the name Sherlock or Dr. Watson nor have I seen them in this movie.
Thank you.
Scott Lord-Shadows on the stairs (WITHOUT SHERLOCK HOLMES & WITHOUT RATHBONE ).
How is this Sherlock Holmes?
People... just read the stories! Then watch film versions (or you won't even know when people append the name of SH to things that are completely unrelated in any way...)
What on God's Earth makes you people so important? There is NOTHING in the description saying this IS a Holmes film. Point it out if it's there. Otherwise
STOP complaining. You're watching this for FREE because of someone else's
work and time. It's one thing to dislike the film. It's another
to trash talk the one who made the effort
to post.
Stop tantruming like a spoiled selfish children. Especially when you're wrong.
GROW UP!
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Lee Scott, years ago, this movie was presented here as a Sherlock Holmes.
V. good film.
great movie
it was looking predictable and overacted until the plot twist at the end !
thanks for up loading.
Thank you
I enjoyed the movie, however, as MrAlumni72 said, it is very misleading to use the name of Sherlock Holmes in the title. What's the point other than upsetting viewers? It's not as though you are receiving advertising revenue from this posting. In fact, as said in the Economist magazine, "Conan Doyle's heirs claim that they have the right to extract license fees or suppress publication". If you not careful, you could end-up on the receiving end of a cease and desist order.
Even without basil still a good movie I think later I will try a poop without the well you know what I mean.
This movie really shows the inherent racism in Britian in the 1930s and 1940s. When the Indian Seik character, SIngh, attempts to run away after being confronted by the police, Bromilow takes it upon himself to grab him by the shirt and then punch him so hard that he falls against the railing around the stairs. They both smash through it and fall about 5 ft onto the stairs. In the next scene Singh is lying unconscious, injured and possibly dead on the sofa. Do the police say "Mr. Bromilow, you are under arrest for assault and battery, malicious wounding, and destruction of property"? No, only "You were lucky Mr. Bromilow. You could have been killed!" Bromilow then looks contemptuously at Singh and says "No matter. HE broke my fall!" Yes, Singh turned out to be a traitor, but at this point, none of the other characters knew this.
Great scoring! No Sherlock Holmes.
People were STUPID in the olden days, he quickly picks up the murder weapon. Don't get me wrong I know live watching old classic movie and being middle aged it's a real treat.
Thanks for the heads up guys. I won't waste time watching on principle. Hate deception
Cute. And it was quite unusual for Hollywood to make such a nice movie at this time in history. The comedy parts were understandable - since there were very, very few "evil" movies made that may upset the American Public. Even Charlie Chan, Mr. Moto, and Nigel Bruce's character as Dr. Watson kept people smiling while they were working the factories for war supplies. Oh... Yes >> This was Hollywood USA Made. The only British thing about this were the actors. As were the Sherlock Holmes movies of that era.
Anyone know why policemen always lick the tip of their pencil before writing?
+mikelheron20 Pencils had very hard leads. You had to wet it to soften it up to write.
+Alice Barrett
They were indelible pencils which contained a purple dye. The writing was semi permanent and could not be easily erased.
As unhealthy to lick a pencil head as to lick an envelope - unless you're a gourmet specializing in lead and glue meals. But yes, that used to be done before ballpoints were in common use.
So cute
...it was rather difficult to get to the place where the movie gets good ....if ever. Granted it's not Holmes, but other mystery movies from this period are excellent. This movie was very hard for me to sympathize with any of the characters much less try and tell what was being set up. Maybe I'll try again one night.
haha..delightful
Lighten Up..............its an excellent movie and know that they won't make movie like this anymore so, put the political correctness and BS aside and titling and just enjoy it.............this is world is so messed up, that good stuff is hard to come by..........lighten up people............enjoy what we have.
There's two characters from Sherlock Holmes - Basil Rathebone. In this film maybe that why they have it advertised as Sherlock.
The actors are Pail Cavanagh and Miles Mander. They are in The scarlet Claw together.
Cavanagh is also in the House of Fear with Rathbone.
Oh, anything. Just enjoy the film. it cost me a cup of coffee during the middle of the night, meaning I should have been in bed