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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)

An American crime mystery directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.
The iconic detective competes with a master criminal in a quest for bomb sight parts. An encrypted message leads to 4 scientists who are working on separate parts of the device and the inventor is caught in the middle of this turmoil.
I thought that this film was quite well-made and interesting. I may have just happened to be in the mood to pay attention to a mystery being unravelled. The black and white video is clear, with no parts being to dark, grainy, blurry or washed out. The audio is easy to hear and dead air hiss is at a minimum. The plot and characters were presented very clearly as well. One thing that I noticed was that when Watson would approach someone, he would do so in a cloud of pipe smoke or blow the smoke directly at them. There was one occasion on which he approached Sherlock Holmes and blew a big puff right in his face from point-blank range. Overall, I think that this was a high quality film and I rate it good. You should watch it if you are at all interested in the Sherlock Holmes franchise.

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