Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) |
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| Director(s) | Roy William Neill |
| Producer(s) | Roy William Neill (uncredited), Howard Benedict |
| Top Genres | Crime, Film Adaptation, Mystery, Thriller/Suspense |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Detectives, Spies, Washington D.C. |
Featured Cast of Sherlock Holmes in Washington See More »
Basil Rathbone
(as Sherlock Holmes)
Nigel Bruce
(as Doctor Watson)
Marjorie Lord
(as Nancy Partridge)
Henry Daniell
(as William Easter)
George Zucco
(as Heinrich Hinckel aka R...)
John Archer
(as Naval Lt. Pete Merriam)
Holmes Herbert
(as Mr. Ahrens)
Thurston Hall
(as Senator Henry Babcock)
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) was a Crime - Thriller/Suspense Film directed by Roy William Neill and produced by Roy William Neill and Howard Benedict.
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Rebecca Deniston of Taking Up Room is hosting The Distraction Blogathon from November 12th to 14th. Rebecca's blogathon mandate: "MacGuffin's. Red herrings. Dangling carrots. Bait and switch. Whatever. We all know how movies mess with our heads."My contribution to the blogathon includes both a distr... Read full article
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington Quotes:
Sherlock Holmes:
I shall write a monograph someday on the noxious habit of accumulating useless trivia.
Sherlock Holmes:
I assure you that Dr. Watson is the very soul of discretion.
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George Zucco and Henry Daniell both play villains in the film. Zucco earlier played Professor Moriarty in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Daniell later played Moriarty in The Woman in Green.
Uniquely, Holmes and Watson do not appear until the second reel of the film.
This was the third Sherlock Holmes feature produced at Universal. It was the second to be directed by Roy William Neill, and the first film in which he took over as the series producer.
The fifth of fourteen films based on Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.
The dubbed German version released in 1959 removed all Nazi references from the dialogue. The story of this edited version is about gangsters trying to get hold of a secret medicine formula that could be dangerous if in the wrong hands.