Jan 31 2009
Saturday Night Funky Flicks:Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)
Saturday Night Funky Flicks journeys to a fictional Great Britain circa 1943 war-torn and weathered by Nazi Germany. Enter: Sir Arthur Connan Doyle’s famous smarty pants and occasionally hubristic hero Detective Sherlock Holmes as he seeks to foil a plot for Nazi domination in Universal Pictures’ Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon. The film is adapted from Doyle’s novel The Adventure of the Dancing Men but only follows the book’s plot only sparsely:
The only thing that Conan Doyle’s story and this film have in common is that Sherlock Holmes broke a code made up of stick figures (”dancing men”). Whereas the Conan Doyle story concerned the murder of an English gentleman by a gangster from Chicago (who used the code to communicate with his ex-girlfriend, now the gentleman’s wife), the film “Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon” concerns Professor Moriarty’s attempts to get his hands on a revolutionary new bomb site developed by a Swiss scientist, Dr. Tobel. The story takes place during World War II. - BasilRathbone.net
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)
Starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
Directed by Roy William Neill.
Mystery from the Outskirts
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