Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Category: Adventure
All Genres: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Release Year: 1943
Country: USA
Runtime: 80
Rating: 5.4 (0)
Languages: French, English
Director: Roy William Neill
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

JUMP INTO YOUR BOOTS AND SADDLES...ITS ROUND-UP TIME IN THE WILD AND WOOLY WEST!

The Looniest, Tuniest Musical Gag-And-Gal Show Since "A Night At The Opera"

Rip-Roaring With Laughs, Girls, Songs!

Writing by: Arthur Conan Doyle - (short story "Dancing Men" from volume "The Return of Sherlock Holmes")
Scott Darling - (adaptation) (as W. Scott Darling) &
Edward T. Lowe Jr. - (adaptation) (as Edward T. Lowe)
Edward T. Lowe Jr. - (screenplay) (as Edward T. Lowe) &
Scott Darling - (screenplay) (as W. Scott Darling) &
Edmund L. Hartmann - (screenplay)

Produced by: Howard Benedict - associate producer

Cast: 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
Rudolph Anders - Braun (uncredited)
Whit Bissell - As a London Bobbie aids Dr. Tobel after attack outside Charlotte Eberles flat. (uncredited)
Veda Ann Borg - Bar singer ("oi, oi, up she rises") (uncredited)

Music: Frank Skinner
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Plot Outline: Starting in Switzerland, Sherlock Holmes rescues the inventor of a bomb-sight which the allies want to keep from the Nazis...
Plot: Starting in Switzerland, Sherlock Holmes rescues the inventor of a bomb-sight which the allies want to keep from the Nazis. Back in London it sems that the inventor is not all that he seemed.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
This film was shot using Super Panavision 70 and Todd-AO formats for presentation in single-strip Cinerama. The opening title sequence has the image devided into three frames just like the original three-strip Cinerama.

Goofs: We know about 3 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Factual errors: The secret weapon bomb sight is a standard photographic enlarger with the bellows and lens set upside down. If it were turned on as it is set up in the movie, the light would shine brightly upwards into the bombardiers eye.

Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The lines that Holmes quotes at the end of the film are a condensed version of William Shakespeares lines from Richard II. [Richard II, 2.1, 40-51]
• A modern source lists Philip Van Zandt as Kurt and includes Henry Daniell in the cast as well. However, the role of Kurt is played by Harry Woods and neither Van Zandt nor Daniell appear in the film at all. The unidentified actor mistaken for Daniell plays a Scotland Yard detective slowly driving the police vehicle following the trail of paint, toward the climax of the film. First seen in 3/4 profile leaning out the car window, he does seem to resemble Daniell. However, when he speaks the accompanying line "they fade out again sir" to Dennis Hoey (Insp. Lestrade), and subsequent lines, he clearly has a rather heavy *Brooklyn* accent, and seen in other shots during the scene does not in any way resemble Daniell, and the momentary appearance to the contrary is clearly an optical illusion.

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