Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943) | |
| Director(s) | Roy William Neill |
| Producer(s) | Howard Benedict (associate) |
| Top Genres | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Film Adaptation, Mystery, Thriller/Suspense |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Detectives, England, Scientists / Inventors, Spies, World War II |
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943) was a Adventure - Crime Film directed by Roy William Neill and produced by Howard Benedict.
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Quotes from Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Dr. Franz Tobel:
You would take the Nazis' own car?
Sherlock Holmes: One must adapt oneself to the tools at hand.
Professor Moriarty: Brilliant man, Sherlock Holmes, too bad he was honest.
Sherlock Holmes: Christmas boxes! Watson, I'm beginning to see the plan. Dr. Tobell divided his bombsight into four parts. He's given one of these four parts to each of these scientists. What a fascinating plan! You see, each of these parts is useless without the other three...
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Sherlock Holmes: One must adapt oneself to the tools at hand.
Professor Moriarty: Brilliant man, Sherlock Holmes, too bad he was honest.
Sherlock Holmes: Christmas boxes! Watson, I'm beginning to see the plan. Dr. Tobell divided his bombsight into four parts. He's given one of these four parts to each of these scientists. What a fascinating plan! You see, each of these parts is useless without the other three...
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Facts about Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Although the main plot revolves around governments and wars that came to be only after Sir 'Arthur Conan Doyle''s death, the secret code from Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Dancing Men", is incorporated as a subplot.
This was the second Sherlock Holmes feature to be produced at Universal. It was the first to be directed by Roy William Neill.
A modern source lists Philip Van Zandt as Kurt and includes Henry Daniell in the cast as well. However, the role of Kurt is played by Harry Woods and neither Van Zandt nor Daniell appear in the film at all. The unidentified actor mistaken for Daniell plays a Scotland Yard detective slowly driving the police vehicle following the trail of paint, toward the climax of the film. First seen in 3/4 profile leaning out the car window, he does seem to resemble Daniell. However, when he speaks the accompanying line "they fade out again sir" to Dennis Hoey (Insp. Lestrade), and subsequent lines, he clearly has a rather heavy *Brooklyn* accent, and seen in other shots during the scene does not in any way resemble Daniell, and the momentary appearance to the contrary is clearly an optical illusion.
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This was the second Sherlock Holmes feature to be produced at Universal. It was the first to be directed by Roy William Neill.
A modern source lists Philip Van Zandt as Kurt and includes Henry Daniell in the cast as well. However, the role of Kurt is played by Harry Woods and neither Van Zandt nor Daniell appear in the film at all. The unidentified actor mistaken for Daniell plays a Scotland Yard detective slowly driving the police vehicle following the trail of paint, toward the climax of the film. First seen in 3/4 profile leaning out the car window, he does seem to resemble Daniell. However, when he speaks the accompanying line "they fade out again sir" to Dennis Hoey (Insp. Lestrade), and subsequent lines, he clearly has a rather heavy *Brooklyn* accent, and seen in other shots during the scene does not in any way resemble Daniell, and the momentary appearance to the contrary is clearly an optical illusion.
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