Good vehicle for Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce investigating weird happenings , while they guard over a royal heir on a luxury liner . They have got to get a young prince home after his father is assassinated and along the way they find plot and counter-plot , a real challenge for Sherlock's razor intellect .Fine Sherlock Holmes movie with nice settings , thrills , plot twists , suspense , unanswered mysteries and outstanding , first-class villains . The game's afloat in this rather tired and no excessively brilliant Sherlock Holmes mystery . After an intriguingly mysterious opening in a typically foggy London , the Great Detective Holmes and Bumbling Doctor Watson are bogged down in a shipboard adventure , fending off would-be assassins of the young European monarch they are escorting .As Holmes helped by his distracted , dumb colleague Doctor Watson uncover a twisted plot .The crime masters at their greatest! New Thrills! Holmes Haunts a Ship ! . His best Mystery of all !. Grim Mystery to hold you breathless!. THEIR NEWEST AND GREATEST ADVENTURE! .
A genuine ripping yarn with much suspense , thrilling events and complex intrigue aboard a ship voyage during which assassins close in . Twelfth in Rathbone/Bruce series with only two more and energies starting to flag . Pretty stale stuff , though Nigel Bruce makes his singing debut with ¨Loch Lomond¨ . Nigel is even more botcher and ineffectual than usual . Interesting and suspenseful entry with Basil Rathbone facing off strange suspicious people who attempt to kill a monarch . It is all a bit elementary and no great challenge for Holmes's brain or even ours for the matter . This is a suspenseful and intriguing film in Universal style , freely based on the splendid novels by Arthur Conan Doyle . The film gets mystery , tension , thrills , detective action , red herrings and packs an exciting deal of outstanding surprises with great lots of fun . Of course , Holmes and Watson solve the mystery at the end , including a surprising twist . Displaying functional settings , appropriate and brilliant cinematography , as well as evocative musical score from Hans J. Salter and Frank Skinner , Universal's regular composers . Magnificent Basil Rathbone's interpretation , considered to be the best and most authentic Sherlock Holmes . Rathbone plays Holmes as an intelligent , obstinate , broody , pipesmoking sleuth , his acting is similar to subsequent actors as Peter Cushing and Jeremy Brett for TV or Nicol Williamson (Seven-per-cent-solution) or Christopher Plummer (Murder by decree) . As usual , Dr. Watson plays his botcher, bungler or clumsy partner , masterfully incarnated by Nigel Bruce . They are well accompanied by notorious secondaries , though no too much known . However , this time here doesn't appear series' usual secondaries as Inspector Lestrade : Dennis Hoey , and Mrs Hudson : Mary Gordon.
This atmospheric motion picture was compellingly directed by Roy William Neill , though inferior than other entries , as the Holmes series was seriously running out of steam by the time this was made and it shows . Roy William Neill shot efficiently various episodes of the attractive series . Neill directed in his ordinary style , in fact he was regular filmmaker -along with John Rawlins- of the stunning series , such as : Dressed to Kill, Terror by Night , Pursuit to Algiers , The Woman in Green, The House of fear , Sherlock Holmes in Washington , Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon , Scarlet Claw , among others . Rating : 6/10. The picture will appeal to fans of the excellent series starred by Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, resulting to be a passable and acceptable episode.
A genuine ripping yarn with much suspense , thrilling events and complex intrigue aboard a ship voyage during which assassins close in . Twelfth in Rathbone/Bruce series with only two more and energies starting to flag . Pretty stale stuff , though Nigel Bruce makes his singing debut with ¨Loch Lomond¨ . Nigel is even more botcher and ineffectual than usual . Interesting and suspenseful entry with Basil Rathbone facing off strange suspicious people who attempt to kill a monarch . It is all a bit elementary and no great challenge for Holmes's brain or even ours for the matter . This is a suspenseful and intriguing film in Universal style , freely based on the splendid novels by Arthur Conan Doyle . The film gets mystery , tension , thrills , detective action , red herrings and packs an exciting deal of outstanding surprises with great lots of fun . Of course , Holmes and Watson solve the mystery at the end , including a surprising twist . Displaying functional settings , appropriate and brilliant cinematography , as well as evocative musical score from Hans J. Salter and Frank Skinner , Universal's regular composers . Magnificent Basil Rathbone's interpretation , considered to be the best and most authentic Sherlock Holmes . Rathbone plays Holmes as an intelligent , obstinate , broody , pipesmoking sleuth , his acting is similar to subsequent actors as Peter Cushing and Jeremy Brett for TV or Nicol Williamson (Seven-per-cent-solution) or Christopher Plummer (Murder by decree) . As usual , Dr. Watson plays his botcher, bungler or clumsy partner , masterfully incarnated by Nigel Bruce . They are well accompanied by notorious secondaries , though no too much known . However , this time here doesn't appear series' usual secondaries as Inspector Lestrade : Dennis Hoey , and Mrs Hudson : Mary Gordon.
This atmospheric motion picture was compellingly directed by Roy William Neill , though inferior than other entries , as the Holmes series was seriously running out of steam by the time this was made and it shows . Roy William Neill shot efficiently various episodes of the attractive series . Neill directed in his ordinary style , in fact he was regular filmmaker -along with John Rawlins- of the stunning series , such as : Dressed to Kill, Terror by Night , Pursuit to Algiers , The Woman in Green, The House of fear , Sherlock Holmes in Washington , Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon , Scarlet Claw , among others . Rating : 6/10. The picture will appeal to fans of the excellent series starred by Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, resulting to be a passable and acceptable episode.