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Dressed to Kill (1946)
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7 June 1946 (USA)
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Queen . . . of a Crime Cult !
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A set of cheap music boxes that people are willing to kill for puts Sherlock Holmes on the case. full summary | add synopsis
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Sherlock Holmes
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Thief
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Prison
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Counterfeiter
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Knife
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Goodbye old friends - till we meet again
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Basil Rathbone | ... | Sherlock Holmes | |
| Nigel Bruce | ... | Dr. John H. Watson | |
| Patricia Morison | ... | Mrs. Hilda Courtney | |
| Edmund Breon | ... | 'Stinky' Emery (as Edmond Breon) | |
| Frederick Worlock | ... | Colonel Cavanaugh (as Frederic Worlock) | |
| Carl Harbord | ... | Inspector Hopkins | |
| Patricia Cameron | ... | Evelyn Clifford | |
| Holmes Herbert | ... | Ebenezer Crabtree | |
| Harry Cording | ... | Hamid | |
| Leyland Hodgson | ... | Tour guide | |
| Mary Gordon | ... | Mrs. Hudson | |
| Ian Wolfe | ... | Commissioner of Scotland Yard |
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Prelude to Murder (USA) (working title) (USA) (DVD title)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Code (UK)
Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Code (UK)
Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill
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72 min (video version) | 76 min (copyright length)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:A (original rating) |
UK:U (video rating) (1992) |
USA:Approved (PCA #11512, General Audience)
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One of several titles in the Sherlock Holmes series whose original copyrights were apparently not renewed and have thereby fallen into public domain; as a result, seriously inferior copies are presently being offered by a number of VHS and DVD dealers who do not have access to original studio masters.
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Continuity: In this film, Dr. Watson is repeatedly described as having "no ear for music". Yet in two previous films of the series, he is seen both singing and playing the tuba.
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Follows The Scarlet Claw (1944)
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The Swagman
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The last Rathbone Holmes (14/14) is again a slightly weaker affair than most of the preceding entries, another variant of The Pearl of Death this time involving music boxes. Music boxes whose tunes play out the location of the stolen and hidden Bank of England £5 plates no less. Holmes proves he has an inbuilt police whistle and a photographic(?) memory for music, whilst Watson says that he likes brass bands but is tone deaf. The woman here, although a thoroughly bad hat is not The Woman, the one and only Irene Adler who had bested Holmes in 1891, but for most of the film she has the upper hand.
By now the steam had left Rathbone, and although Bruce wanted to carry on and Universal held the copyright until 1949 the series had reached its natural conclusion. Director Roy William Neill had less than a year left to live too. Some lovely bits: Holmes consoling Mrs Hudson, distraught at letting 2 people into 221b who turned it over; Holmes' biscuit jar was seen to good advantage. And yes, the bullet holes in the wall from Faces Death were still there at the end! No matter how bad, mawkish or daft this marvellous series got I've always loved every entry. Watching a clean Definitive DVD of this with a lump in my throat I think of Brian Wilson's line "It's so sad to watch a sweet thing die", without even the dignity of end credits (they're lost).
All things must pass.