Directed by Roy William
Neill, written by Roy Chanslor, based on story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Starring Basil Rathbone,
Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather and Dennis Hoey
1945
Members of a Scottish
gentlemen’s society called “The Good Comrades” are turning up dead, one by one,
as unrecognizable corpses. Is one of them murdering all the others in order to
collect on their insurance policies? Sherlock Holmes and Watson must find out.
Although this flick stars
horror stalwart Basil Rathbone and features the requisite old dark house and
foggy moors, this is the one entry in the Sherlock horror cycle that probably
has the least to do with horror than any of the others. It also wasn’t as
memorable to me as the other Holmes movies of this series I’ve seen, so I’d
only recommend it to completists or to those who just enjoy the company of
Rathbone and Bruce (and Dennis Hoey, who gets better as Inspector Lestrade the
dumber Inspector Lestrade gets).
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