Review – Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

I know that during World War Two England expected every man to do his duty, but it still seems strange that the call would go out to a Victorian-era sleuth who by rights should have been dead for a half century. Nonetheless, the studio decided that the world’s most famous consulting detective and his faithful sidekick (played by the classic combo of Rathbone and Bruce) were needed against the forces of darkness. Here the Nazis have enlisted the aid of Holmes’ nemesis Professor Moriarty in search of the genius inventor of a hyper-accurate bomb sight. Though the actual Doyle stories are better, this one’s entertaining in a “buy bonds” sort of way. Mildly amusing