Review – Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill

This is the last of the Universal Holmes and Watson pictures starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Apparently Rathbone was so sick of the role that he refused to do it anymore after this. If the scripts he was getting weren’t any better than this one, I for one don’t blame him. The crime here is one of the most elaborate the genius of Baker Street ever faced: a convict knows the location of currency printing plates stolen from the Bank of England, and he’s somehow managed to encode the location into the tunes played by three music boxes. But before his partners in crime can pick them up at auction, the boxes are bought by other bidders. And so the chase is afoot, with Holmes trying to unravel the riddle and track down the boxes before the vicious criminals can get their hands on them. However clever the scheme might have been, unfortunately it doesn’t make for a particularly interesting story. Too bad one of the best series in mystery movie history ended on such a mediocre note. Mildly amusing