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The Secret Weapon

1942

In the fourth film of the series, Sherlock Holmes assists the inventor of a revolutionary bomb sight, Dr Tobel, to smuggle his work out of Switzerland and into England. Once in England the bomb sight pieces and the Tobel go missing, leaving Holmes and Watson with code of dancing stick figures to break before Professor Moriarty so they can find the remaining pieces of the weapon. This is a slightly better print than others available on the Internet Archive. Copyright Status: PUBLIC DOMAIN Registered under LP11561 on 31 August 1942 SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., (c)1942. 7 reels, sd. Based on the story "The Dancing Men" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Credits: Producer. Howard Benedict; director, Roy William Neill; screenplay, Edward T. Lowe, W. Scott Darling. Edmund L. Hartmann; adaptation, W. Scott Darling, Edward T. Lowe; photography, Les White; film editor. Otto Ludwig. Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 31Aug42; LP11561. NO RENEWAL FOUND



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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943) is the fourth in the Sherlock Holmes (1939 film series) series of Sherlock Holmes films. The film is credited as an adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes tale "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," but the only element of the source material to be used is the dancing men code.
This is the second Basil Rathbone "Sherlock Holmes" film in which Moriarty dies. He is thrown to his death from the top of the Tower of London by Holmes in 1939's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (film). During the course of the adventure, Holmes adopts the disguises of an elderly German bookseller (taken from the Arthur Conan Doyle story The Adventure of the Empty House), the lascar sailor Ram Singh, and the Swiss scientist Professor Hoffner. His disguise as the bookseller was parodied in the film The Pink Panther (1963 film). The film is a loose adaptation of The Adventure of the Dancing Men; while credited as an adaptation, the only content which bears similarity is the "dancing men" code.

Cast

  • Basil Rathbone – Sherlock Holmes
  • Nigel Bruce – Doctor 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 (actor) – Mrs Hudson

=Cast notes=

This film marks the first appearance of Dennis Hoey as Inspector Lestrade - the Scotland Yard detective who, with Watson, provides much of the comic relief in six of the films of the series.
Lionel Atwill appeared previously in the film The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film) (1939) as Dr Mortimer.





Category:1943 films
Category:1940s mystery films
Category:English-language films
Category:American mystery films
Category:American spy films
Category:Films based on mystery novels
Category:Sherlock Holmes films based on works by Arthur Conan Doyle
Category:Black-and-white films
Category:Universal Pictures films
Category:Films directed by Roy William Neill
Category:World War II films made in wartime
Category:Aviation films
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Copyright Status: PUBLIC DOMAIN Registered under LP11561 on 31 August 1942 SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., (c)1942. 7 reels, sd. Based on the story "The Dancing Men" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Credits: Producer. Howard Benedict; director, Roy William Neill; screenplay, Edward T. Lowe, W. Scott Darling. Edmund L. Hartmann; adaptation, W. Scott Darling, Edward T. Lowe; photography, Les White; film editor. Otto Ludwig. Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 31Aug42; LP11561. NO RENEWAL FOUND

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