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Release Date: 1943

Cast: Gavin Muir, Don Terry, Henry Daniell, John Archer, Holmes Herbert, George Zucco, Bradley Page, Basil Rathbone, Edmund MacDonald, Thurston Hall, Nigel Bruce, Mary Forbes ...MORE

Cast: Gavin Muir, Don Terry, Henry Daniell, John Archer, Holmes Herbert, George Zucco, Bradley Page, Basil Rathbone, Edmund MacDonald, Thurston Hall, Nigel Bruce, Mary Forbes, Marjorie Lord ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Thriller, Spy, Black-And-White, Detective Fiction, Crime Thriller, Mystery, Detective, Drama Film

Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) is the fifth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes movies. The plot is an original story not based on any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes tales, though it bears some similarity to "The Bruce-Partington Plans." Oscar Homolka was originally cast as Holmes's elder brother Mycroft, but from family reasons he refused and Mycroft's character was replaced by "Mr. Ahrens" played by Holmes Herbert. A British agent carrying a vital document is murdered on his way to deliver it in the USA. Holmes deduces he was carrying the document... MORE

Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) is the fifth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes movies. The plot is an original story not based on any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes tales, though it bears some similarity to "The Bruce-Partington Plans." Oscar Homolka was originally cast as Holmes's elder brother Mycroft, but from family reasons he refused and Mycroft's character was replaced by "Mr. Ahrens" played by Holmes Herbert. A British agent carrying a vital document is murdered on his way to deliver it in the USA. Holmes deduces he was carrying the document in the form of microfilm and goes to Washington with Watson to find the killer and retrieve the document before it falls into the hands of an "international spy ring". Before his death, the agent managed to pass the microfilm into the unwitting hands of a Washington debutante and bride-to-be. There are some amusing moments when the microfilm, which has been inserted into a "V for Victory" match folder, gets passed from hand to hand at a party unknowingly, and at one point is discarded by the chief criminal. Holmes and Watson track down the criminals, rescue the bride-to-be and regain the LESS