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SHERLOCK HOLMES
and the VOICE of TERROR
Universal Pictures
September 18, 1942
Producer - Howard Benedict
Director - John Rawlins
CAST
Sherlock Holmes
 -Basil Rathbone
Dr. Watson
 -Nigel Bruce
Kitty
 -Evelyn Ankers
Sir Evan Barham
 -Reginald Denny
Sir Alfred Lloyd
 -Henry Daniell
Jerome Lawford
 -Montague Love
Meade
 -Thomas Gomez
Admiral Fabian
 -Olaf Hytten
Capt. Shore
 -Leyland Hodgson
Jill Grandis
 -Hillary Brooke
Mrs. Hudson
 -Mary Gordon
Crosbie
 -Arthur Blake

After a 3 year absence as Holmes and Watson, this film, based loosely on Conan Doyle's "His Last Bow", brings Basil and Nigel into a more futuristic setting. Complete with telephones, automobiles, electric lights, and of course, Nazi spies, this film was brought to life at a time when the public needed a solid hero to boost morale during the ongoing siege of
World War II.

Patriotically included at the end of this film is the famous "east wind coming" dialogue delivered by Holmes. This speech, although written by Doyle some 25 years earlier in 1917, fits perfectly with 1942's war torn Europe.

Henry Daniell would later return as
William Easter in Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943),
and again as Professor Moriarty in The Woman in Green (1945).


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This film is the FIRST of THREE films, to showcase Rathbone in his CURIOUS Roman styled COIFFURE!
WHY, would Sherlock comb his HAIR this way?? Only his HAIRDRESSER knew for sure!

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