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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2018 19:03:16 GMT
Another top entry in the Rathbone series, with an effective plot, nice misdirection, and a creepy performance by Zucco. Not to mention that mesmerizing flute(?) tune.
This is one Moriarty story where I want him to get away with the main crime, too.
8/10
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Post by mattgarth on Aug 12, 2018 19:07:12 GMT
and including a Rathbone musical treat as well
"I love to be beside the seaside ..."
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Post by claudius on Aug 12, 2018 21:00:29 GMT
The 2nd and last of the Rathbone-Bruce films set in the period. Loosely based on the William Gillette play (filmed in 1916 with Gillette, 1922 with John Barrymore, and 1980 with Frank Langella) that created the Deerstalker/curved pipe image, and the combination of "Elementary" and "My Dear Watson" into the signature line. This also began Bruce turning Watson into the buffoon of the later Universal films, although he still had his good points here (While Holmes falls for Moriarty's trap, it's Watson who keeps his attention focused to the 'good' professor).
If anyone is interested on why Jerrod (Alan Marshall) seems suspicious, a deleted scene reveals that Ann's father had murdered a South American owner of the mines her family built their fortune from; the dead owner's son is the bolas-wielding murderer Moriarty had employed, wanting revenge. As the family lawyer, Jerrod knew this dark truth, but kept it secret to protect Ann. A deleted scene showing the couple's reconciliation (set after the murderer's apprehension but cut because it slowed the pace on Holmes going after Moriarty) reveals this plotpoint.
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Post by Salzmank on Aug 12, 2018 23:02:54 GMT
I’m very fond of Moriarty’s trap in this one (and, of course, Zucco’s Moriarty—still the best of the lot, in my opinion, though I really liked Henry Daniell and Eric Porter as well), though that may because I have the same kind of mind as Moriarty describes Holmes’s—well, not the genius, of course, but that childlike jumping-from-one-thing-to-another, for better or worse. I don’t think Adventures is as good as Hound, but it’s still high up there in my ratings of the series. The plot’s clever, even though we know Moriarty’s plan from the get-go ( à la Columbo, actually!), and there are some great Holmes-Watson moments and a better-than-most heroine in Ida Lupino. There are a lot of plot holes, though, and it isn’t exactly as well-paced as Hound (which itself may be considered under-paced compared to the lightning-quick Uni b-movies). And I kind of wish Moriarty had a better send-off—though, of course, he’d pop up as Lionel Atwill in The Secret Weapon, just to fall to his doom again!  Also, while the following dialogue makes Watson look like a complete nincompoop, it never fails to crack me up. Watson is lying on the street to play a corpse so that Holmes can reconstruct a murder.  |
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Post by claudius on Aug 12, 2018 23:59:36 GMT
The Inquisitive Stranger is actor William Austin. Ginger Rogers' ex-to-be in THE GAY DIVORCEE and the Gryphon to Cary Grant's Mock Turtle in ALICE IN WONDERLAND. He was also the first actor to play Alfred in THE BATMAN (1943) and although his characterization was too much comedy relief, his image of the balding, slender, mustachioed Alfred convinced DC Comics to change its original portrayal of Alfred (stout, clean-shaven) to resemble Austin's, which became the comic book standard for the character.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 13, 2018 17:23:39 GMT
I actually prefer this movie over the more famous The Hounds of Baskerville 1939.   |
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Post by claudius on Aug 13, 2018 21:45:39 GMT
That's Erik Rhodes, BATouttaheck.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 13, 2018 21:57:46 GMT
That's Erik Rhodes, BATouttaheck. sure 'nuff…. thanks ! Still looking for a picture of the other dude ! |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 13, 2018 22:04:20 GMT
That's Erik Rhodes, BATouttaheck. sure 'nuff…. thanks ! Still looking for a picture of the other dude ! It's not from TAOSH or TGD, but here's one of him in a pretty typical attitude. .jpg) |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 13, 2018 22:09:17 GMT
Thankee kindly Doghouse6 … I found a couple but they wouldn't snip ! |
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Post by marshamae on Aug 14, 2018 16:45:50 GMT
If I was as good as you all at clipping photos and film I would make a collection of British non musical stars doing music Hall numbers. It’s my belief every British actor has a music hall act in the closet .
Basil Rathbone in a striped blaser and boater sing8ng and dancing to I do like to be beside The seaside is top of the list
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 14, 2018 17:01:30 GMT
Basil Rathbone in a striped blaser and boater singing and dancing to I do like to be beside The seaside ...   Bonus:  |
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