The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Basil Rathbone (left) and Nigel Bruce in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), directed by Alfred Werker.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
film by Werker [1939]
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, American mystery-detective film, released in 1939, that was the second to feature the popular pairing of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as the classic Arthur Conan Doyle characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, respectively. The film was ostensibly based on a play by William Gillette, though the two works had little in common, and the title comes from the collection of 12 Sherlock Holmes tales published in 1892. The film opens as Professor Moriarty (played by George Zucco), Sherlock Holmes’s archrival, is acquitted of murder. Later Ann Brandon (Ida Lupino) visits the sleuth and his ...(100 of 301 words)