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Johnny is called in to help protected an insured mob lawyer whose had a falling out with his boss.
Original Air Date: October 27, 1953
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Philo Vance is called in to investigate the murder of a multi-millionaire in a secure house that no one would have been able to enter.
Original Air Date: March 15, 1949
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The Man Called X goes to Lisbon to stop an ex-Nazi Scientists with biological weapons and a plan to kill the leaders of NATO.
Original Air Date: March 11, 1952
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Two murders by chloroform are tied to a high-end jeweler.
Original AIr Date: September 29, 1948
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A wealthy book store owner appears to have been kidnapped from his home.
Original Air Date: April 13, 1950
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The Hound of the Baskervilles marked Sherlock Holmes return to literature after he was killed off by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in “The Final Problem” eight years previously. Doyle had not yet brought Holmes back to life. This story was set prior to “The Final Problem.”
Sir Henry Baskerville is the heir of his late uncle Charle’s Estate. However, his uncle passed away under mysterious circumstances and one of Sir Charles’ friends, Dr. James Mortimer comes to Holmes to ask for assistance. Local legend is that Sir Charles was killed by a ghostly hound that haunts the moor to avenge the sins of one of the Baskerville ancestors. Mortimer confides to Holmes that he found a hound’s footprint at the scene of the death.
Intrigued, Holmes takes the case, and the case gets more interesting when Holmes spots a man following them in London and someone steals one of Sir Henry’s boots. Surprisingly, Holmes doesn’t go to Dartmoor, but sends Watson to investigate and report his finding to Holmes.
Watson finds strange goings-on: suspicious-acting servants, a dangerous convict on the moor, and of course, the legend of the hound.
This remains the most oft retold Holmes story and a pioneering mystery story that has been ripped off repeatedly over the years. While it’s a Holmes story, with Holmes absent from the main action for about half the book, it gives Watson a chance to shine and show his intelligence and resourcefulness.
Despite its popularity, I didn’t enjoy this as much as The Sign of Four. However, this is a matter of taste. The Sign of Four was an action-packed thriller while Hound of the Baskervilles relied much more on a build-up of suspense. This one builds slowly and in a less skillful hand, it would have been easy for The Hound of the Baskervilles to become boring, but Doyle sensibly used Watson’s reports to Holmes and Watson’s diary entries to avoid bogging the story.
Overall, the Hound of the Baskervilles deserves its reputation as a true detective fiction classic.
Rating: 4.75 out of 5.00
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A logging foreman finds the paymaster and decides to steal the payroll. Will Jayce Pearson be able to uncover the crime?
Original Air Date: February 4, 1951
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Johnny is called in to investigate when suspicion arises that a valuable painting is a forgery.
Original Air Date: October 20, 1953
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An aging start of a Broadway show that’s losing money is murdered.
Original Air Date: March 8, 1949
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Ken suspects that a man murdered in Japan was a scientist whose last known location was Alaska and was developing a robotics technology.
Original Air Date: March 4, 1952
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Mr. Chameleon is convinced that a socialite couple are involved in a gambling racket and some way connected to the murder of a young woman from a formerly wealthy family.
Original Air Date: September 22, 1948
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Casey and Ann look into a case of arson and murder.
Original Air Date: April 6, 1950
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Jace Pearson investigates the murder of a rancher killed over his alfalfa crop.
Original Air Date: January 21, 1951
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In 1941, George Sanders left the role Simon Templar in the Saint series and was replaced by Hugh Sinclair.
The contrasts between Sanders and Sinclair is pretty striking. For Sanders, the Saint was an early highlight of a career that would see him earn parts in A pictures and even earn an Academy Award. For Sinclair, this was as good as it got. Sinclair just didn’t have the presence that Sanders did, and so both of his Saint films were below Sanders best stories. Though both films were better than Sanders subpar The Saint’s Double Trouble.
The Saint’s Vacation (1941) is the better of the two films and truthfully above average when compared to most 1940s B detective features. The Saint is on vacation and gets involved in international intrigue over a music box that serves as the stories Macguffin. It’s not an original idea, but the execution of it in this film is pretty enjoyable. The end is somewhat frustrating and drawn out particularly since we never get to find out what exactly the hubbub was about other than that it was a Macguffin.
The Saint Meets the Tiger (1943) is based on the first Saint Novel and finds the Saint on the trail of international gold smugglers. Most of the movie is a little boring and hard to follow, so it’s a bit below average. However, at the end of the movie, we get a madcap scene where the Saint’s sidekick and girlfriend are knocking people out aboard a ship really livens things up.
So in short, the two films are almost mere images of each other. The Saint’s Vacation is an above average film that’s pretty interesting in the beginning but is bogged down by a slow ending. The Saint Meets the Tiger is a below average film that’s propped up by an ending that’s a lot more fun than the film itself.
Overall, I’d give the DVD 3.0 out of 5.0 and recommend it only for Saint completists at its retail price.
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