Name: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Director: Roy William Neill
Genre: Mystery, Adventure, Action, Crime, Drama
Released: 1942-12-25
Duration: 4800000 s
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill

Plex

Amazon Prime Video

Paramount+

fuboTV

Hoopla

Pure Flix

Starz

DIRECTV

Fandor

Kanopy

Pluto TV

Public Domain Movies

The Film Detective

The Roku Channel

Tubi TV

Amazon Video

Apple TV

Pantaflix

Vudu

A series of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce played Holmes and Dr. John Watson, respectively. The first two films in the series were produced by 20th Century Fox and released in 1939. The studio stopped making the films after these, but Universal Pictures acquired the rights from the Doyle estate and produced a further twelve films.  Although the films from 20th Century Fox had large budgets, high production values, and were set in the Victorian era, Universal updated the films to the contemporary era of the Second World War, and produced them as B pictures with lower budgets. Both Rathbone and Bruce continued their roles when the series changed studios, as did Mary Gordon, who played the recurring character, Mrs. Hudson.

The pacing is slack, the big mystery not mysterious enough, and the showdowns between Holmes and Moriarty a bit too silly for my taste.

Not a great Sherlock (too many plot holes), but one that's entertaining, never dull and has a lot of intrigues going for it.

Sherlock Holmes helps a scientist escape the clutches of the Gestapo in Switzerland and gets him to England. The man has invented a revolutionary new bombsight that will significantly aid Britain's war effort. Now that he's in England he should be safe, right?

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Explore

Categories

Plex For All

Plex For Pros

Get the App

Plex Pro Downloads

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

1942 · 80 min

Cast of Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon Reviews

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon Videos

Take Plex everywhere

Company

Plex Pass

Downloads

Support

Community