Roy William NeillSherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)

Based on the Sir Authur Conan Doyle story "The Dancing Men", Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are placed in WWII europe to help protect a scientist and his invention from the Nazis.

Basil Rathbone .... Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce .... Dr. John H. Watson
Lionel Atwill .... Professor Moriarty
Kaaren Verne .... Charlotte Eberli
William Post Jr. .... Dr. Franz Tobel
Dennis Hoey .... Inspector Lestrade
Holmes Herbert .... Sir Reginald Bailey
Mary Gordon .... Mrs. Hudson

This item is part of the collection: Feature Films

Director: Roy William Neill
Production Company: Universal Pictures Company Inc.
Audio/Visual: sound, black & white
Keywords: Mystery; Crime; Sherlock Holmes

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: bygracealone - - January 26, 2008
Subject: Review

This story is very suspenseful and exciting!

Reviewer: Dominator - - December 18, 2005
Subject: Cannot Replace Conan Doyle's

But certainly film worth watching,I certainly doubt Watson's sense of humour and professor's
shrewdness, save these two,this movie is near flawless.Rathbone has fitted perfectly(Sherlock Holmes).

Reviewer: satty - - November 2, 2005
Subject: H.264

The file in H.264 is close to perfect (335 MB, 320 * 240).
So far the best quality from archive.org I downloaded.

I would love to see more movies in this format.

Reviewer: Scott Saunders - - October 25, 2005
Subject: High-Res MPEG H.264

The larger of the MPEG 4 files is an MEPG H.264 file. You will need QuickTime 7 to play it http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/.

It's also been optimized to work on new ipod+video

Enjoy,
Scott

As for the movie. Sure Holmes would have been at least 80, but who cares? The worlds greatest fictional detective vs. the Nazis. How cool is that?