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Leonard Lee
Screenplay -
Milton Rosen
Music Director -
Arthur Conan Doyle
Story -
Bernard B. Brown
Sound Director -
Roy William Neill
Director -
Edward R. Robinson
Set Decoration -
Frank Gruber
Adaptation -
Jack Pierce
Makeup Department Head
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CinemaSerf
7/7/2022 4:15:32PM
I rather enjoyed this final outing for our deductive duo, as they have to get to the bottom of the mysterious murder of the rather unfortunately monikered "Stinky" (Edmund Breon) who went to school with "Dr. Watson". His rather brutal murder is inexplicable, but for the theft from his home of a rather ordinary musical box made at Dartmoor prison. Further investigation reveals the boxes were made by a felon with a very important secret to keep, one which "Mrs. Hilda Courtney" (Patrcia Morison) who likes a little perique in her cigarettes, and her henchman "Hamid" (Harry Cording) will stop at nothing to possess. Again, as with so many of these - it's actually Nigel Bruce ("Watson") who steals the show and saves the day - and together with Basil Rathbone they sign off this series on good form and in good spirits. PS: What did Dr. Samuel Johnson die of...?
Frederick Worlock
Colonel CavanaughCarl Harbord
Inspector HopkinsBasil Rathbone
Sherlock HolmesIan Wolfe
Commissioner of Scotland YardMarjorie Bennett
Antique Shop Assistant (uncredited)Olaf Hytten
Alfred - Auction House Bookkeeper (uncredited)Holmes Herbert
Ebenezer CrabtreeLillian Bronson
Minister's Wife (uncredited)