The final film of the Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes stories ends the series on a high note. Holmes is battling a most ruthless foe in skirts in Dressed To Kill.
That foe is Patricia Morison two years away from her career role on stage as Lilly Vanessi in Kiss Me Kate. Dressed To Kill is not a whodunit, we know that she and her cohorts do at least two murders to achieve their objective. They nearly do in Holmes as well. The question is will Holmes and Scotland Yard get to the objective before the bad guys do.
Holmes and Watson get innocently involved enough when an old friend of Watson's reports an unusual crime to them. Edmund Breon is a collector of music boxes and a rather cheap ordinary one is taken from him, one that looks like something he recently purchased. Later on he's killed and the box they wanted stolen, but not until after Holmes as memorized the tune.
Among Sherlock Holmes's avocations is playing the violin and among his other gifts is an uncanny musical ear. That is of enormous importance in solving this case and why Patricia Morison and her henchmen are after the boxes.
I'm glad Holmes and Watson after World War II ended got back to just doing their crime thing. I always thought they were misused as propaganda symbols. Rathbone and Bruce go out on a high note in this series in Dressed To Kill.
That foe is Patricia Morison two years away from her career role on stage as Lilly Vanessi in Kiss Me Kate. Dressed To Kill is not a whodunit, we know that she and her cohorts do at least two murders to achieve their objective. They nearly do in Holmes as well. The question is will Holmes and Scotland Yard get to the objective before the bad guys do.
Holmes and Watson get innocently involved enough when an old friend of Watson's reports an unusual crime to them. Edmund Breon is a collector of music boxes and a rather cheap ordinary one is taken from him, one that looks like something he recently purchased. Later on he's killed and the box they wanted stolen, but not until after Holmes as memorized the tune.
Among Sherlock Holmes's avocations is playing the violin and among his other gifts is an uncanny musical ear. That is of enormous importance in solving this case and why Patricia Morison and her henchmen are after the boxes.
I'm glad Holmes and Watson after World War II ended got back to just doing their crime thing. I always thought they were misused as propaganda symbols. Rathbone and Bruce go out on a high note in this series in Dressed To Kill.