Duration: 71:31 min
 Description: DVD .amazon. thefilmarchive.org Dressed to Kill also known as Prelude to Murder or Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Code in the UK is the last of fourteen films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson. Though not directly based on any of Arthur Conan Doyles Holmes stories the film features several references to A Scandal in Bohemia with Holmes and Watson discussing the recent publication of the story in The Strand Magazine and the villain of the film using the same trick on Watson that Holmes uses on Irene Adler in the story. The plot also bears some resemblance to The Adventure of the Six Napoleons which had previously been used for the RathboneBruce film The Pearl of Death. Three cheap musical boxes each one playing a subtly different version of The Swagman manufactured in Dartmoor Prison are sold at a local auction house. However a criminal gang is determined to steal and recover all three even if it means mitting murder. Sherlock Holmes tries to recover the music boxes and crack the secret code contained in the tune before the gang can get what they want. Cast Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes Nigel Bruce as Dr. John H. Watson Patricia Morison as Mrs. Hilda Courtney Edmund Breon as Stinky Emery as Edmond Breon Frederick Worlock as Colonel Cavanaugh as Frederic Worlock Carl Harbord as Inspector Hopkins Patricia Cameron as Evelyn Clifford Holmes Herbert as Ebenezer Crabtree Harry Cording as Hamid ...

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