- Film Review
- Reviewed By Tom Hutchinson
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3 out of 5
Call it "the Case of the Clueless Sleuth". Before Basil Rathbone put his definitive imprint on Conan Doyle's famous private detective, matinée idol Clive Brook was a refined and far too discreet Holmes, with Reginald Owen as a very ineffectual Dr Watson. The film loses a lot of gaslight appeal as Chicago gangsters, brought in by the monstrous Moriarty, invade a bewildered London. Holmes's nemesis is given such a wonderfully OTT presence by Ernest Torrence that, in the end, you almost hope he'll win.
Plot Summary
Mystery starring Clive Brook as the famous sleuth. Sherlock Holmes is called in when Chicago gangsters begin a crime spree in London.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Sherlock Holmes
- Clive Brook
- Professor Moriarty
- Ernest Torrence
- Dr Watson
- Reginald Owen
- Alice Faulkner
- Miriam Jordan
- Little Billy
- Howard Leeds
- Gore-King
- Alan Mowbray
Crew
- Director
- William K Howard
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