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Genres:
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Adventure /
Crime /
Drama /
Mystery /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Roy William Neill
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Actors:
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Alan Mowbray,
Mary Forbes,
Skelton Knaggs,
Renee Godfrey,
Geoffrey Steele,
Basil Rathbone,
Nigel Bruce,
Dennis Hoey,
Frederick Worlock,
Billy Bevan
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Duration:
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57 min.
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Rating:
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(7/10)74
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Plot Summary:
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Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to obstruct the theft of the VIP of Rhodesia, an colossal diamond owned via Carstairs' look after, Lady Margaret. Believing the diamond will be stolen on a indoctrinate trip from London to Edinburgh, Holmes deftly switches diamonds with Lady Margaret while in her pigeon-hole. Soon after, Roland is murdered and the diamond is stolen. Red herrings jammed with as Holmes, aided at hand Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade, make up the killer's hiding estate and suss out that long-time foe Moriarty's heavy Colonel Sebastian Moran is somehow involved in the crime.
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Tags:
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Not Rathbone's best outing
Although a solid enough story, with Holmes being hired to prevent the theft of a huge diamond known as 'The Star of Rhodesia' and an atmospheric train trip from London to Edinburgh, this is not one of Rathbone's best Holmes' performances. Watson is as charmingly bumbling as ever, and there is a lovely scene where he attempts to question a fellow passenger about a murder and ends up making a complete pig's ear of it! Overall definitely worth watching, but the dynamic duo have had more intriguing cases to solve.
The La - erm, Diamond Vanishes
The usual criminal mastermind steals the usual priceless gem, and Sherlock must trace it in the usual manner (to be fair, they do have the grace to acknowledge this shamelessly blatant repetition in the script!). The twist here is that the Star of Rhodesia vanishes on board the London-Edinburgh express under the noses of Holmes, Watson and Lestrade.
As with 'The Spider Woman' this benefits from being a more compact mystery than usual, albeit with a particularly abrupt ending. Worth watching for the chap in the flat cap, who gives one of the most bizarre performances in screen history - which is saying something in this series!
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