Sherlock Holmes and The Secret Weapon (1943) [Thriller]

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  • Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943) is the fourth in the Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes films.
    Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) pretends to be a Nazi spy to aid scientist Dr. Franz Tobel (William Post Jr.) and his new invention, a bombsight, in escaping a Gestapo trap in Switzerland. Holmes and Franz fly to London, where Holmes places him under the protection of his friend, Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce). The scientist slips away against Holmes' instructions for a secret reunion with his fiancee, Charlotte Eberli (Kaaren Verne), and gives her an envelope containing a coded message. He tells Charlotte to give it to Holmes if anything should happen to him. Leaving Charlotte's apartment, an attempt to abduct him by German spies is foiled by a passing London bobby.
    Tobel successfully demonstrates the bombsight for Sir Reginald Bailey (Holmes Herbert) and observers from Bomber Command. Tobel, now under the protection of Inspector Lestrade (Dennis Hoey) and Scotland Yard, tells Sir Reginald that, although willing to provide the British with his bombsight, only he will know its secret and has a complex plan for its manufacture to keep the secret safe. He separates his invention into four parts and gives one to each of four Swiss scientists, known only to him, to construct separately. Soon after, Holmes receives a call from Lestrade telling him that Tobel has disappeared. Holmes goes to Charlotte's apartment, where he receives the Tobel's envelope. Rather than the coded message, the message inside is from Holmes' nemesis, master criminal Professor Moriarty (Lionel Atwill).
    Disguising himself as Ram Singh, one of Moriarty's old henchmen, Holmes searches the Soho district for information. He encounters two henchmen, but is captured by Moriarty. Holmes is put into the false bottom of a sea chest, but is rescued when Watson and Lestrade observe the henchmen struggling with its unusual weight. Holmes returns to Charlotte's apartment to search for clues to the message's contents. He finds impressions of the message left on a notepad page by immersing it in "fluorescent salts... and then photograph(ing) it by ultraviolet light." Holmes breaks the first three lines of a cunningly modified alphabet substitution code, which are the identities and locations of three of the scientists, but unable to break the fourth line, which has been altered as an added precaution, soon learns that Moriarty has murdered all three and stolen their parts. Meanwhile, Moriarty, also unable to break the fourth line, tortures Tobel for the name of the fourth scientist. Holmes deduces the change in the code and breaks the fourth line, identifying the scientist as Professor Frederick Hoffner (Henry Victor).
    Moriarty accidentally deciphers the code. He sends agents to abduct Hoffner, who has the brilliance to put the four parts together should Tobel not recover from torture. The German agents bring the scientist, who is actually Holmes in disguise again, to Moriarty's seemingly undetectable stronghold. Unknown to Moriarty, Holmes had the real Hoffner attach an apparatus to their car that drips luminous paint (which Watson helped prepare) at regular intervals. Holmes uses Moriarty's vanity and pride to trick him into slowly bleeding Holmes to death "drop by drop", to stall for time. Holmes is saved at the last minute, however, by Watson and Lestrade, who with Hoffner's help, successfully followed the drops. Scotland Yard apprehends the spies, but Moriarty escapes. When he attempts to complete his escape through a secret passageway, he falls sixty feet to his death; Holmes has discovered the criminal's hidden trap door and left it open.
    This is the second Basil Rathbone "Sherlock Holmes" film in which Moriarty dies. He is thrown to his death from the top of the Tower of London by Holmes in 1939's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. During the course of the adventure, Holmes adopts the disguises of an elderly German bookseller (taken from the Arthur Conan Doyle story The Adventure of the Empty House), the lascar sailor Ram Singh, and the Swiss scientist Professor Hoffner. His disguise as the bookseller was parodied in the film The Pink Panther. The film is a loose adaptation of The Adventure of the Dancing Men; while credited as an adaptation, the only content which bears similarity is the "dancing men" code.
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    Directed by Roy William Neil, produced by Howard Benedict, written by W. Scott Darling, based on "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, Lionel Atwill as Professor Moriarty, music by Frank Skinner.
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    Source: "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 21 June 2012. Web. 1 July 2012. en.wikipedia.or....
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  • @TimelessClassicMovie
    @TimelessClassicMovie  7 лет назад +30

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    • @louisoliver5507
      @louisoliver5507 5 лет назад +1

      Asaaamaaa

    • @thomasbuttita732
      @thomasbuttita732 5 лет назад +4

      All time best Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.

    • @m.kalmus3324
      @m.kalmus3324 2 года назад

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  • @johngergen4871
    @johngergen4871 5 лет назад +32

    There is a reason these pictures are classics. Great story telling and acting that will last forever .

  • @johnshields6852
    @johnshields6852 2 года назад +31

    I can't get enough of Basil and Nigel, those two just kill it, considering the years they played the roles, such classy characterizations

    • @carminemurphy4836
      @carminemurphy4836 2 года назад +1

      Don't forget Dennis Hoey, so humble when he says; "that's ok Miss."
      D.H. was without a doubt, the best Inspector Lestrade.

  • @indy_go_blue6048
    @indy_go_blue6048 4 года назад +34

    The first 10-15 minutes of this film is my favorite part of a movie anytime, anywhere. The atmosphere and action are absolutely perfect IMO.

  • @mariaelenacastro6996
    @mariaelenacastro6996 2 года назад +14

    It’s a pleasure to relived this old films with more intelligence and low violence! An estimulous to imagination, some times naive but always fun!

  • @kurtnmia
    @kurtnmia 11 лет назад +55

    I've seen this so many times I can't count since I was a kid and I never get tired of it.

    • @dougtagg9162
      @dougtagg9162 5 лет назад +8

      kurtnmia me too. All with basil rathbone and nigel Bruce. I can watch them over and over and never get tired of them.

    • @scottranney5891
      @scottranney5891 2 года назад +1

      Yes me too

    • @JimRedHawk
      @JimRedHawk 2 года назад +3

      Basil Rathbone was the best Holmes. No one has matched him yet, though one or two came close.

  • @carrueross2705
    @carrueross2705 3 года назад +16

    I love these classic movies with espionage and Scotland Yard written in so heavily. It’s fascinating what the common man can survive. Sherlock Holmes never gets old or outdated.

  • @jacquelineobyrne4745
    @jacquelineobyrne4745 3 года назад +6

    Gotta love Holmes' (Basil Rathbone in this one) different disguises, but I'd recognise that nose every time 😄

  • @lizbee1508
    @lizbee1508 2 года назад +5

    Sir Basil, you are the perfect kind of man. A war hero and that voice! I am in love.

  • @chirelle.alanalooney8609
    @chirelle.alanalooney8609 2 года назад +4

    Oh God, once again Watson f's up his duties, and starts making up excuses for this screw ups to Sherlock Holmes!
    I really don't know how Mr. Holmes can continuously stand it, and put up with it, and keep his cool, without blowing up at worthless Watson!

  • @keridrowatzky9543
    @keridrowatzky9543 3 года назад +10

    I've not seen this one that I can remember. Pretty good. Sherlock always comes through.

  • @HJKelley47
    @HJKelley47 3 года назад +5

    Those who have played Sherlock Holmes since 1893:
    Charles Brookfield - 1893
    William Gillette - 1899-1930 - 1300 Performances over 30 yrs.
    Sherlock Holmes movie Baffled - 1900 Silent/Short - Max Goldberg
    John F. Preston - 1900
    Charles Rice - 1904
    Karoly Baumann - 1905
    Maurice Costello - 1905
    Viggo Larsen - 1908
    Alwin NeuB - 1908, 1911, 1914
    Otto Lagoni - 1910
    Holger Rasmussen - 1911
    Mack Sennett - 1911-1912
    George Treville - 1912
    Harry Benham - 1913
    James Bragington - 1914
    Francis Ford - 1914
    H.A. Saintbury - 1916
    Hugo Fink - 1917
    Sam Robinson - 1918
    Eille Norwood - 1921 Silent short movie - The Dying Detective
    Burt Lytell - 1921
    Dennis Neillson-Terry - 1921
    John Barrymore - 1922
    Hamilton Deane - 1923-1932
    Tod Slaughter - 1928, 1930
    Richard Gordon - 1930-1933, 1936
    Clive Brook - 1929/1930/1932
    Arthur Wontner - 1931- 1937 - Movie Series
    Raymond Massey - 1931
    Robert Rendel - 1932
    Reginald Owen - 1933
    Felix Alymer - 1933
    Louis Hector - 1934-1935, 1937
    Bruno Guttner - 1937, 1939, 1942-1943
    Orson Welles - 1938
    Basil Rathbone - 1939-1946
    Cedric Hardwick - 1945
    Tom Conway - 1947
    Howard Marion-Crawford - 1948
    John Stanley - 1948-1949
    Alan Napier - 1949
    John Longden - 1951
    Laidman Browne - 1951
    Carleton Hobbs - 1952-1969
    Ronald Howard - 1954 (39 episodes)
    Sir John Gielgud - 1954-1955
    Christopher Lee - 1962, 1970, 1992
    Douglas Wilmer - 1964
    Peter Cushing - 1959, 1968, 1984
    John Neville - 1965, 1970, 1978
    Robert Stephens - 1970
    Stewart Granger - 1972
    John Cleese - 1973
    Larry Hagman - 1974
    Robert Powell - 1974
    John Wood - 1974-1975
    Leonard Nimoy - 1976
    Kevin McCarthy - 1977
    Roger Moore - 1976
    Nicol Williamson - 1976
    Christopher Plummer - 1977
    Peter Cook - 1977
    Paxton Whitehead - 1978
    Geoffrey Whitehead - 1979-1980
    Keith Mitchell - 1979
    Graham Armitage - 1979-1980, 1985
    Charlton Heston - 1980
    Frank Langella - 1980
    Vasily Livanov - Russian TV - 1979-1981, 1983 & 1986
    John Moffatt - 1981
    Guy Henry - 1982
    Tom Baker - 1982
    Ian Richardson - 1983
    Peter O’Toole - 1983 (animated TV films - Australian)
    Jeremy Brett - 1984-1994
    Nicholas Rowe - 1984
    Dinsdale Landen - 1987
    Guy Rolfe - 1984
    Tim Pigott-Smith - 1987
    Anthony Higgins - 1987
    Michael Pennington - 1987
    Roger Rees - 1988
    Ron Moody - 1988-1989
    Clive Merrison - 1989-1998, 2002, 2004, 2008-2010
    Edward Woodward - 1990
    Simon Callow - 1990
    Richard E. Grant 1992
    Robert Powell - 1993
    Patrick McNee - 1993
    Anthony Higgins - 1993
    1998-2019: John Gilbert - Episodes 1-18
    Lawrence Albert - Episode 20
    John Patrick Lowrie - Episodes 21-65 & 67-until
    Dennis Bateman - Episode 66
    Jason Gray-Stanford - 1999-2001 - Animation for Kids
    Matt Frewer - 2000-2001
    Joaquim de Almeida - 2001
    Richard Roxburgh - 2002
    James D’Arcy - 2002
    Andrew Sachs - 2004
    Rupert Everett - 2004
    Jonathan Pryce - 2007
    Javier Marzan - 2007
    Roger Llewellyn - 2009
    Ben Syder - 2010
    Christian Rode - 2010, 2014
    Anthony D.P. Mann - 2011 (More like a “thriller” spoof by V Movies)
    Johnny Lee Miller - 2012-2019
    Benjamin Lawlor - 2013
    Igor Petrenko - Russian TV Series - 2013
    Robert Downey Jr. 2009 & 2011
    Benedict Cumberbatch - 2010-2016
    Nicholas Briggs - 2010-2018
    Seamus Dever - 2014
    Ian McKellen - 2015
    Euan Morton - 2015
    Gregory Wooddell - 2015
    Paul Andrew Goldsmith - 2015-2016
    Ewen Bremner - 2016
    Jay Taylor - 2017-2018
    Yuko Takeuchi - 2018 (HBO Asia - female ‘Holmes’)
    Orlando Wells - 2018
    Samuel Tady - 2011, 2014, 2017-2018 (Tady Bros. Productions/on YTube)
    Johnny Depp - 2018 (animation)
    Will Ferrell - 2018
    Nicholas Boulton - 2020
    Henry Cavill - 2020
    Ethan Bell - 2020 (Fan Film on RUclips)
    Ethan Thomas Jung - 2020 Fan Adv.
    (Vagabond Repertory Theater Company-RUclips)
    This list is not exhaustive. however, these are some of the
    many actors who have played Sherlock Holmes on stage,
    screen, radio and TV adaptations.

  • @Brucev7
    @Brucev7 9 лет назад +27

    Classic, Holmes vs. Moriarity
    Holmes, 'I neglected to warn him, it seems some careless person came across his trap doo-or, and left it open.' He, he

  • @Danielle_Zor-El
    @Danielle_Zor-El 5 лет назад +11

    Excellent movie, thanks for posting! But I do wonder though, how can anyone downvote this? It's beyond me.

  • @graemesmith6721
    @graemesmith6721 2 года назад +6

    Excellent wartime thriller! Lionel Atwill at his villainous best!

  • @dougtagg9162
    @dougtagg9162 5 лет назад +9

    The best place to hide anything is where everyone can see it in plain view.. Thank you Sherlock Holmes and Edgar Allan Poe. I used that theory at Christmas for special gifts not under the Christmas tree.

  • @patty5201
    @patty5201 6 лет назад +9

    Eric Porter is the best Moriarty ever! It's scary to even look at him. All you can think is, "this guy's going to do something really horrible!"

    • @bengt-oveandersson2914
      @bengt-oveandersson2914 2 года назад +1

      Couldn't agree more! Atwill is good, but Porter is even scarier, because he is half obsessed, half mad in his hatred for Holmes, and plays it to perfection.

  • @nymalous3428
    @nymalous3428 5 лет назад +10

    "This fortress built by Nature for herself, this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England." Richard II (Shakespeare). I always did like that quote at the end, and quite apt considering the circumstances.

  • @abs3704
    @abs3704 5 лет назад +14

    Hats off to these guys for making such a wonderful movie at a time when all the world knew was to fight each other.

    • @DavidRice111
      @DavidRice111 4 года назад +3

      I've always thought that same thought! My father went ashore in Normandy in the 2nd wave, and it amazes me that such great films could come out of Britain & hollycrap during all the horror of WWII!

    • @carrueross2705
      @carrueross2705 3 года назад +2

      Well said!👏

    • @bengt-oveandersson2914
      @bengt-oveandersson2914 2 года назад +2

      One must remember that for Rathbone and Bruce both, these films were very much part of the war effort and they were doing their part, continuing the fight in this way against the same foe, Germany, as 25 years before. They were both decorated in WWI, Bruce wounded by machine-gun fire in his back, and Rathbone decorated for a particulary heroic action where he took a German trench all by himself, using his pistol to great effect. David Niven tells in his book The Moon is a Balloon of meeting these fellow Brits in Hollywood, saying how he and the other young men went very quiet when these older ones shared reminiscenses of WWI. Ronald Colman was wounded by mustard gas in the trenches, and Herbert Marshall lost one leg. Yes, my hat is indeed off to these brave men!

  • @carlosarce5013
    @carlosarce5013 5 лет назад +7

    Basil Rathbone could have easily played the character of THE SHADOW.

  • @ejr5480
    @ejr5480 5 лет назад +8

    Just when you think Watson is a bumbling buffoon, here comes Lastrade! Too funny!

  • @m.kalmus3324
    @m.kalmus3324 2 года назад +2

    Watching these All Day Long -. -

  • @sandyannejensen3641
    @sandyannejensen3641 3 года назад +4

    i love it watch it every day i love doctor Watson he's cool

  • @peterheisler4648
    @peterheisler4648 2 года назад +2

    Even Sherlock Holmes was enlisted to fight the Nazis.

  • @81overon
    @81overon 10 лет назад +20

    Dr Tobel is doing secret work...but...his name is over the door bell at 4:24. Great movie. All the Rathbone/Bruce movies are great.

    • @Psy0psAgent
      @Psy0psAgent 9 лет назад +3

      @ 9:56 "I have always believed in the theory originally projected by Edgar Allen Poe, the American writer, that the best place to hide something is where everyone can see it."

  • @millybuxx3650
    @millybuxx3650 2 года назад +3

    love the E.A.Poe's 'The Purloined Letter" reference in 10:00

  • @jayrosen6663
    @jayrosen6663 2 года назад +3

    Another great ending, by Rathbone, at fadeout!

  • @vernonsanders371
    @vernonsanders371 2 года назад +2

    I love during testing bomb sight they used my favorite British aircraft the mosquitoe

  • @patty5201
    @patty5201 5 лет назад +5

    I must be missing something. When Moriarty is taking Holmes blood out, I don't see any bag or bottle hanging down below on the other side of the gurney for the blood to be going into. And it's not all over the floor. And Dr. Watson doesn't have to bandage his arm after pulling the needle. Otherwise, it would take more time before he could pull his sleeve down. Unless it was a very small needle. Like a 23 gauge or something. But then Holmes wouldn't be weak and swaying from a gravity drop blood loss unless he was there for days. And the line would plug up before then. Sometimes these shows make no sense to me at all. Or at least parts of them.

    • @carrueross2705
      @carrueross2705 3 года назад

      Yes it’s definitely frustrating but rarely do you see movies or TV shows that get it right when it comes to the medical scenes. I worked for years in surgery and I just laugh out loud at most of the surgery scenes on film. Like when a surgeon walks into surgery with his mask down, if he’s even wearing one. And how they toss their gloves away, always having someone else sew the wound shut. Cracks me up every time. 😆

    • @carminemurphy4836
      @carminemurphy4836 2 года назад +1

      I can tell you, the older reusable I.V. needles were definitely not 23 guage, they were frighteningly long and thick.

  • @VinnyDaQ
    @VinnyDaQ 9 лет назад +17

    Why does Holmes always sound pissed off whenever he says "Thank you!" ?

  • @ITILII
    @ITILII 5 лет назад +4

    If you want to watch a real csi or some such type tv/movie, don't bother watching the junk that supposedly passes for tv or movies these days......watch the best: Sherlock Holmes, the greatest detective of all time...based on a man Arthur Conan Doyle knew, Dr. Joseph Bell, of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh......Bell, Doyle and Holmes=all geniuses !

  • @roxybrooks6937
    @roxybrooks6937 11 лет назад +11

    Sherlock Holmes is awesome !! Rathbone and Bruce play them the BEST !!

  • @margaretd3710
    @margaretd3710 5 лет назад +6

    Who was the genius who decided Rathbone should wear his hair that way - with 2 big curls? He usually wore it straight back, but this style makes him look like a dandy or peacock or something.

    • @patty5201
      @patty5201 5 лет назад +1

      Margaret D Very true! Maybe they were trying to make him look more casual. Personally I think it makes him look more ugly! The only time I think he truly looks attractive is when he has masquerra on and his hair is combed back as usual. And no dark lines under his eyes. Like in The Woman In Green.

    • @dougtagg9162
      @dougtagg9162 5 лет назад +1

      Margaret D I am not a fan of the two curl style either.

  • @strothermartin5368
    @strothermartin5368 5 лет назад +4

    1:00:23 Funny! The look on the professor's face.

  • @deancox8634
    @deancox8634 7 лет назад +5

    It had it's Premiere on Xmas Day 1942. It was also released in the UK in 42.

  • @calliedurling8780
    @calliedurling8780 10 лет назад +9

    Great print! Thanks so much for this.

  • @scottranney5891
    @scottranney5891 2 года назад +3

    Best Sherlock ever

  • @bengt-oveandersson2914
    @bengt-oveandersson2914 2 года назад +1

    There is much to like in this film, but one cringes at the stupidity of Dr. Tobel. After being daringly rescued from the Nazis by Sherlock Holmes, and told to stay put because of the great danger he is in, the first thing he does is to go traipsing around London and being attacked by enemy agents for his trouble. But that is not enough. Rather than entrusting his bomb sight to the British government, who went to so much trouble extricating him and to whom he had promised to turn it over, he flatly refuses and elects instead to turn over different pieces of it to other scientists, two of whom get murdered for their trouble, totally unneccesary deaths who must be laid flat at Tobel's doorstep. He then further traips about until he is taken by Moriarty, and would have been taken back to Nazi-Germany were it not for the ingenuity of Sherlock Holmes, who nearly loses his life in the process. Some glaring plot holes, which must have been ovbvious to the script writers.

  • @duanetremlett3345
    @duanetremlett3345 2 года назад +3

    It is the best ever show. ❤

  • @davidcarlson2152
    @davidcarlson2152 10 лет назад +8

    _I'll tell you all right I will-the truth and that's a fact. The blighter's in Davy Jones' locker a feeding the fishes, he is, deader than a blinking mackerel. Now, ain't that worth a fiver? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!_
    _This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England._

    • @Frenchblue8
      @Frenchblue8 10 лет назад

      Although English by ancestry, I have yet to go there. and still, that last line makes me shiver.

    • @bradhumphries6143
      @bradhumphries6143 9 лет назад +1

      I liked that part also. what makes it great and inspirational is the tune that goes along with the words. One of the problems RKO ran into was getting newcome actors in their films. Harry Cording is in a lot of SH films.

    • @Frenchblue8
      @Frenchblue8 9 лет назад

      Brad Humphries
      Thanks for commenting on this/. I will watch again, and pay attention to the music there, as well.
      When we see American character actors in tv and movies, whose names one may not know - but whose faces and often voices are instantly recognizable, we always say, "well, HE (or she) certainly works a lot', lol.

  • @Dick67
    @Dick67 5 лет назад +16

    Ah, definitely one of my favorites, as finally we get a good look at the evil genius himself, Professor Moriarty! In so many tales he is in the shadows, pulling strings from beyond, often thought to be dead, or non-existent; but here we see him in all his evil glory, in his secret stronghold, which he proudly presents to Holmes as having "all the modern conveniences of a successful man in my profession". And so it is! Unbreakable glass, soundproof, unfindable, but with access to the street, the sewers, the river, a fully equipped hospital to patch up wounded cronies,, trap doors, false walls, booby traps, ... I love it!

  • @docmalthus
    @docmalthus 10 лет назад +11

    Who played a greater Moriarty than Lionel Atwill? Nobody, in my humble opinion!

    • @bradhumphries6143
      @bradhumphries6143 9 лет назад +3

      I would say George Zucco in Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 1939, esp the scene where Professor Moriarty disguised himself as a Policeman in the tower of London. George Zucco did a better performance than Lionell Atwill, and Henry Daniell,

    • @docmalthus
      @docmalthus 9 лет назад +2

      Brad Humphries George Zucco was in Atwill's league, no doubt about it. Both actors had extensive stage experience and both were superb villains!

    • @bradhumphries6143
      @bradhumphries6143 9 лет назад +2

      Henry Daniell was the third actor to play Moriarty in "The Woman in Green'. However I thought he was little to thin for the role. Zucco and Atwill match the animation drawings I have seen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

    • @docmalthus
      @docmalthus 9 лет назад +3

      Brad Humphries Henry Daniell had a nice reptilian quality to his work . But, then, I agree that Zucco and Atwill were better Moriartys

    • @bradhumphries6143
      @bradhumphries6143 9 лет назад +1

      Thank you. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

  • @im1who84u
    @im1who84u 6 лет назад +3

    16:20 Holy Crap!...... That's a nice "flat". What does she do for a living?

  • @DavidRice111
    @DavidRice111 4 года назад +4

    Others have their favorites but there was no finer Moriarty than Lional Atwill~ ol' snake eyes!

  • @choicemcghee2083
    @choicemcghee2083 6 лет назад +6

    Couldn't nab a one legged man.love it.

  • @Theswerethebestthebest
    @Theswerethebestthebest 7 лет назад +5

    You know , Holmes and Watson has been my all-time favorite since I've been in Grammar School. And way before( HBO & PRISM ) was even invented. For the younger people that don't know what PRISM is they were the first two cable networks. Anyway I must
    have seen this movie at least 10 times & watching it now like it's brand new ! ( cont..... ,
    another thing ,,,,,,,,,,,,
    there has been many other actors that played Sherlock Holmes and dr. Watson
    but not one of them could hold a glass of Sherry ,
    Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
    & Nigel Bruce as Dr. John Watson
    other people have tried but none of them could ever succeed and hold the character Sherlock Holmes then basil Rathbone.
    The same goes for Nigel Bruce, as he portrayed dr. John Watson in his
    sometimes a little bit lost but also sometimes very clever. I remember times some certain movies we're dr. Watson was more clever than Sherlock Holmes. But there was only a few of them.
    Yes Sherlock Holmes and dr. Watson these two English Duos are my most favorite.

  • @Kyl203
    @Kyl203 5 лет назад +2

    I’ve always enjoyed these Sherlock homes movies w g n tv in Chicago use to show these movies

  • @erichinkle7347
    @erichinkle7347 10 лет назад +4

    Great movie! Odd to see this after watching 'Son of Frankenstein', though, where Atwill played the cop (Inspector Krogh) and Rathbone played the bad or rather seriously misguided Doctor Frankenstein.

    • @usmanalicheema6749
      @usmanalicheema6749 10 лет назад

      T

    • @docmalthus
      @docmalthus 10 лет назад +6

      Which goes to show what great actors they both were. Hero or villian, Atwill or Rathbone could play the gamut!

    • @erichinkle7347
      @erichinkle7347 10 лет назад

      Doc Malthus
      Yes, a lot of the B-actors/character actors of the Golden Age of Hollywood seem to have been better performers than some of the a-listers.

    • @Brucev7
      @Brucev7 9 лет назад +4

      Eric Hinkle 'That's Frank-en-steen!"
      watch?v=nxxSIX3fmmo

    • @ardashir51
      @ardashir51 9 лет назад

      ***** I do have to agree with this remark. I suppose if you were a B-actor you had to develop actual talent to make up for the lack of good looks to coast on.

  • @thatguyinelnorte
    @thatguyinelnorte 3 года назад +1

    So many people understand so little of operational security...

  • @tallpaul521
    @tallpaul521 11 лет назад +6

    "The needle to the last, eh Holmes?"

    • @jeffreyriley8742
      @jeffreyriley8742 4 года назад

      I think this and Hound of the Baskervilles are the only times it's mentioned in the entire Rathbone series.

  • @dancox9704
    @dancox9704 5 лет назад +3

    These old b&w movies are great!

  • @paulconaghan5445
    @paulconaghan5445 5 лет назад +2

    Three points;
    1. Salisbury Plain testing area looks suspiciously like a dessert.
    2. They couldn't catch a man with a wooden leg.
    3. Moriarty had an equipped hospital on the other side of the door.
    Who wrote this nonsense? Certainly not Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

    • @christheghostwriter
      @christheghostwriter 2 года назад +1

      Agreed. I'm kind of shocked by all the people praising this trash. The story is ridiculous, Watson is a moron, and Holmes is just kind of bland and only seems smart because everyone else seems like a bunch of idiots. The SH stories with Jeremy Brett (which dramatized the original stories) are vastly superior to this poorly-written garbage

  • @chirelle.alanalooney8609
    @chirelle.alanalooney8609 2 года назад +1

    They looked like Stick Figures!
    NOT Dancing Men.

  • @tarkushead
    @tarkushead 4 года назад +2

    “We must leave at once!....wait a minute “ 😄

  • @patriciajrs46
    @patriciajrs46 2 года назад +1

    I also thought it was a poor decision on someone's part to not even mention the massive flotilla that they flew over. Especially since this is WW1.

  • @mikelmacrichard4772
    @mikelmacrichard4772 2 года назад +3

    Few weeks ago I was reading some Sherlock Holmes stories and realized I grew up on Basil Rathbone who makes great Holmes, but Robert Downey, Jr. Only one that captures the essence of the Book Holmes perfectly.

  • @gulfrelay2249
    @gulfrelay2249 5 лет назад +2

    name that Tune, Mozart's Rondo alla Turka.

  • @shughy1
    @shughy1 2 года назад

    Sooo many RUclips adverts now, they're ruining their own platform

  • @ErichoTTA
    @ErichoTTA 11 лет назад +6

    Glad to see a movie about World War II set during it besides Casablanca.

  • @patty5201
    @patty5201 6 лет назад +4

    This drives me nuts! When they're "torturing" Dr. Tobel, by stretching him on a table, they're crazy! If he was being stretched by a machine it's one thing. But having some traction applied feels wonderful! Like those hanging things for your back, just being upside down really takes the pain out. And using your own body weight is far more than what a few people can do just pulling on you like that. I'd actually pay someone to do it to me!!!

  • @Bettyfan92614
    @Bettyfan92614 Год назад

    Norice that the pilot was a woman. During WW2, British women were trained as pilots in order to ferry aircraft.

  • @muhammadali2291
    @muhammadali2291 Год назад +1

    great movie.

  • @tallpaul521
    @tallpaul521 11 лет назад +3

    This is the film where Inspector Lestrade (Dennis Hoey) makes his debut.

  • @TheRoadDawg
    @TheRoadDawg 2 года назад

    Only 5 movies with Basil & Atwill as Sherlock & Watson…what a shame. I’ve seen them enough to know every nuance, like a favorite song. They should have made 50 together! I loved Peter Cushing, but these guys chemistry was off the charts.

  • @rayceeya8659
    @rayceeya8659 2 года назад

    Man, old fashioned newspaper hangers. I haven't seen them since I was in high school.

  • @im1who84u
    @im1who84u 6 лет назад +1

    21:34 "There he is"......Nothing gets by this guy.

  • @joukohalonen1578
    @joukohalonen1578 3 года назад

    Watson, what d'you make of it? Of what then, said Watson; putting sugar on his tea. I did not hear or see you at present.
    Never mind, I was just asking an opinion from you for our current occupation?
    When I was in India no-one asked me for but 221b Baker Street serves a fine pot.
    I meant that our current position leaves us no choice. Our duty is to place the war service behind us unless we can be sure of making any of use.
    Let's just hope the war hasn't got our guts and carry on peace?
    War will develope, there will always be someone who tries to manipulate everything.
    Let us just hope, it's not too late. 2 & 5

  • @TheRoadDawg
    @TheRoadDawg 2 года назад

    Only 5 movies with Basil & Atwill

  • @thomasbriggs4718
    @thomasbriggs4718 2 года назад

    I laughed the first time I saw the secret weapon. Standing in for the Norden Bombsight was a mid century Beseler photo enlarger.

  • @JackieOgle
    @JackieOgle 2 года назад

    I just had eye surgery two days ago and have been binge-watching these movies with one eye! Lol...that should say how great they are to watch! Blessings everyone! Thoroughly enjoying while healing!

  • @patty5201
    @patty5201 5 лет назад

    Definitely Fallon Naval Air Base! It's not Nellis or Indian Springs. The vegetation is wrong. Even though they're closer to Hollywood. I'm sure it's just film rolls from their testing at the Base east of Reno. I used to live there and it's exactly the same as what's in the bombing scenes in this movie. Especially the type of sagebrush.

  • @Arwar555
    @Arwar555 6 лет назад +1

    at 22.00 ..thats NOT SALISBURY PLAIN..its some desert in USA

    • @patty5201
      @patty5201 6 лет назад

      M. khan All these movies were made in Hollywood. They used stock film for all those background and scenic shots. So that part could have been shot just about anywhere.

    • @patty5201
      @patty5201 6 лет назад +1

      M. khan It looks like the bombing range at the Fallon Naval Air Base. They have fences all around with signs that say Unexploded Ordinance. KEEP OUT! East of Reno Nevada USA.

  • @timhunt4954
    @timhunt4954 7 лет назад +1

    That mika from the rifleman

  • @Colin21233
    @Colin21233 2 года назад

    Too many ad interruptions though

  • @DavidSmith-kd8mw
    @DavidSmith-kd8mw 2 года назад

    The last 30 seconds is very moving. I can't imagine what it must have meant at the time.

  • @walterseverin607
    @walterseverin607 2 года назад

    🎶 Aye aye up she rises, aye aye up she rises, aye aye up she rises early in the morning🎶

  • @lebat2544
    @lebat2544 10 лет назад +2

    Why do i feel like an old person after watching this movie although i am 11 😳😕

    • @dogdayart
      @dogdayart 10 лет назад

      because your old

    • @Frenchblue8
      @Frenchblue8 10 лет назад +2

      cause you liked it?

    • @dogdayart
      @dogdayart 9 лет назад

      me to

    • @1967buickriviera
      @1967buickriviera 4 года назад

      Me too. And I'm 11 right now

    • @DavidRice111
      @DavidRice111 4 года назад

      If you were indeed 11, you were too immature to dig it. If, on the other hand, you're merely a troll~
      stop wasting our time.

  • @stefanvogtrealthailand
    @stefanvogtrealthailand 2 года назад

    very funny for a Swiss person 🤣 2:15 also for British 😂

  • @feinsanity
    @feinsanity 3 года назад

    I remember having downloaded this movie on my walkman

  • @billypratt4201
    @billypratt4201 5 дней назад

    Thank you.....
    Great film

  • @TheFrog767
    @TheFrog767 5 лет назад +1

    I say THANK YOU .

  • @JohnDoe-wb4iv
    @JohnDoe-wb4iv 2 года назад

    Sir Basil Rathbone was the greatest actor stage n screen

  • @melbias5046
    @melbias5046 10 лет назад +1

    is that the sheriff from north fork in the beginning of the movie? micah torrence? playing the gestapo agent.

    • @bradhumphries6143
      @bradhumphries6143 9 лет назад +1

      Yes that is Paul Fix. My Dad even recognized him. I saw this movie for the first time when I was a youngster.

    • @melbias5046
      @melbias5046 9 лет назад

      david wildgust no, not me, i have a beard and at 6' and 245

    • @bradhumphries6143
      @bradhumphries6143 9 лет назад +1

      Yes that is the Sheriff. My Dad also recognize him.

    • @billywatson118
      @billywatson118 2 года назад

      Sheriff on Gunsmoke!

    • @billywatson118
      @billywatson118 2 года назад

      Or the Rifle men?

  • @amymcnulty4434
    @amymcnulty4434 2 года назад

    I saw Scooby Doo roll his eyes at Watson

  • @deejay9851
    @deejay9851 2 года назад

    How many times can Moriarity die???😳

  • @rikkitikkitavi3118
    @rikkitikkitavi3118 3 года назад

    I see "SHEILA" from "The voice of Terror"

  • @ctvtmo
    @ctvtmo 2 года назад

    Greatest ending in cinema history.
    1:07:08

  • @tallpaul521
    @tallpaul521 11 лет назад

    Just clicked as to where I'd seen the actress Kaaren Verne (Charlotte Averly)..she was in the classic "Kings Row".

  • @pinkkx7905
    @pinkkx7905 8 лет назад

    I like the story of SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA

  • @revyu6754
    @revyu6754 3 года назад

    Horrible amount of stupid advertisements.

    • @christheghostwriter
      @christheghostwriter 2 года назад

      Why would you ever sit through ads when you can just pay for Premium? I have RUclips playing 24 hours a day, and the only ads I hear are when podcasters read ads from their sponsors. My time is worth too much to ever waste it sitting through commercials.

  • @rulebritannia1553
    @rulebritannia1553 2 года назад

    Thanks 🙏

  • @racine09
    @racine09 11 лет назад +1

    Most amusing !

  • @patty5201
    @patty5201 5 лет назад +1

    It drives me nuts when they tie Holmes hands in front and put a hankerchief around his mouth. Why doesn't he just reach up and pull it down and yell? They did the same thing in Sherlock Holmes Goes To Washington! Watson is yelling "where are you", and all Holmes has to do is reach up and pull it down and tell him! Stupid writers!

  • @jayf6360
    @jayf6360 2 года назад

    DISLIKE

  • @AaronHahnStudios
    @AaronHahnStudios 4 года назад

    Filmed in 1942.

  • @patty5201
    @patty5201 5 лет назад

    Everytime I hear Watson say "fiddle", it's like fingernails scratching across a blackboard. There's a difference between a violin, (which is what Holmes played), and a fiddle. For one thing, the word fiddle can denote more than one type of stringed instrument and the bridge on a fiddle is built different for the different types of sounds that are made by fiddlers than violinists.

    • @dougtagg9162
      @dougtagg9162 5 лет назад

      Patty Lee only a classical musician would make that comment. Reminds me of a violinist I used to date.

    • @gulfrelay2249
      @gulfrelay2249 5 лет назад

      @@dougtagg9162 the main thing is the STYLE of play, not any difference in instruments. A clarinet is a clarinet; but Mozart and Pete Fountain?

    • @patriciajrs46
      @patriciajrs46 2 года назад

      I have watched too many comparison videos, and they say that there is no difference between them. They are essentially the same instrument.

  • @crispysunny1183
    @crispysunny1183 2 года назад

    Sheer Luck Holmes

  • @susanparker767
    @susanparker767 2 года назад

    👀

  • @michaelkujawski7130
    @michaelkujawski7130 7 лет назад +1

    The Sherlock ritual??? Logic, logic, logic!!!

  • @cine1972
    @cine1972 3 года назад

    D
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