Basil Rathbone and\u00a0Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson. It doesn’t get much better than that. From the late 1930s through the mid-1940s, they were Holmes and Watson.<\/p>\n
I’ve seen all 14 films and they’re a remarkable mix of detective stories, crime stories, spy thrillers, suspense, and a few touches of comedy. The films gave\u00a0us the definitive Holmes for an entire generation of viewers. They were exciting, thrilling, and well-played.\u00a0I should stay that because a film is listed low on my list (with the exception of\u00a0the\u00a0#14 film), it’s not because it was a bad film. The series has so many good films\u00a0in it, it was actually hard to make up my mind on\u00a0the films between 2 and 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n
14)\u00a0 The Woman in Green (1945)<\/p>\n
The weakest of the series. The Woman in Green <\/em>was a film that struggled with its plot and villains. The character who ought to the primary villain lacked the personality of Holmes’ female antogonists in The Spiderwoman <\/em>and Dressed to Kill.<\/em>\u00a0 So, the writers brought Professor Moriarity back despite having killed him six movies prior.\u00a0 The problem is that the plot they created was too small for Moriarity. In previous movies, he’d tried to steal the crown jewels and then been working for the Nazis. In this film,\u00a0Moriarty’s plot \u00a0amounts to is a fairly gruesome blackmail scheme. Hardly stuff for the Napoleon of Crime.<\/p>\n 13)\u00a0 The Pearl of Death (1944)<\/p>\n Holmes, while trying to illustrate the ineffectiveness of relying on an electronic burgular alarm to protect a valuable pearl, disconnects the alarm, allowing a thief to steal the pearl. From there, the story follows the premise of the Doyle story, “The Six Napoloeans.” However, it adds in a gruesome monster of a killer and makes for a suspenseful chapter in the series.<\/p>\n 12) Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)<\/p>\n Not as exciting as the title might indicate, with a few rought spots. However, Holmes’ investigation into a series of murders at a convalescent home has a fantastic final confrontation requiring a lot of guts from our hero to pull it off.<\/p>\n 11) Dressed to Kill (1946)<\/p>\n This is a film that gets trashed by some fans for everything from the title\u00a0to similarities in plot to Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon<\/em>. The\u00a0plot centers around three music boxes that were\u00a0made in prison and purchased at an auction house and criminals desperate to receover them. \u00a0However, I love the use of music in this plot. Also, while this film features from Watson’s goofiest moments as he’s tricked by the villain into revealing the location of a music box with the help of a puerile ruse, Watson also gives Holmes the final clue that helps him solve the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Basil Rathbone and\u00a0Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson. It doesn’t get much better than that. From the late 1930s through the mid-1940s, they were Holmes and Watson. I’ve seen all 14 films and they’re a remarkable mix of detective stories, crime stories, spy thrillers, suspense, and a few touches of comedy. 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