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Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A Swiss scientist invents a bomb sight that may very weIl decide the outcome of World War lI and Sherlock HoImes (BasiI Rathbone) is chosen to protect the device and its inventor from falling into the hands of the Nazis. When the inventor is kidnapped, the trail Ieads to Holmes' oId enemy, Professor Moriarity (Lionel Atwill), who plans to sell both the bomb sight and its inventor to Germany. HoImes and Dr. Watson must decipher a code left behind by the missing scientist that will Iead them to the device before Moriarity. ln this story of Second World War espionage and intrigue, writers Lowe, Darling and Hartmann, aIong with director Roy WiIIiam NeiIl, deliver a HoImes who is as much a nationaI asset in EngIand's war against Germany as he is its greatest detective. Written to appeal to a wartime audience, the film turns the cIassic battIe of wits between Holmes and Moriarity into one of patriotic good and eviI in which the stakes are the freedom of the civilized worId. Based On The Dancing Men By Sir Arthur Conan DoyIe. |
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