Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes1939

Director: Alfred L. Werker
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino, Alan Marshal, Terry Kilburn
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Runtime: 85 minutes

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Sherlock Holmes's older brother, Mycroft. One of the most delightful surprises in the Holmes canon of stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, the introduction of Mycroft is wonderfully realized in this Granada Television ad… more »



Sherlock Holmes:
You've a magnificent brain, Moriarty. I admire it. I'd like to present it pickled in alcohol to the London Medical Society.

Professor Moriarty:
Holmes, you only now barely missed sending me to the gallows. You're the only man in England clever enough to defeat me. I'm going to break you. I'm going to bring off right under your nose the most incredible crime of the century, and you'll never suspect it until it's too late. It'll be the end of you Sherlock Holmes. Then I can retire in peace. I'd like to retire; crime no longer amuses me. I'd like to devote my remaining years to abstract science.

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