Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray
Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond owned by Carstairs' mother, Lady Margaret. Believing the diamond will be stolen on a train trip fr...( read more
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I will have to agree with Henrik Shunk ,another Flixster user. I am not a big fan of the Rathbone versions of Sherlock Holmes. "They are very pulp, render Watson to a doofus and are usually extremely patriotic (Holmes was British !). Anyhoo this is one of the better films Rathbon...( read more)
Of all mystery cliches, the mystery on a train is my favourite, that and a haunted house maybe, I was never the biggest fan of the Rathbone versions of Sherlock Holmes. They are very pulp, render Watson to a doofus and are usually extremely patriotic (Holmes was British !). Anywa...( read more)
Fantastic Holmes! Basil Rathbone is the greatest as my favorite sleuther.
I have watched this film many times and it never grows old. It's pure genius. Rathbone and Bruce are fantastic. I love these Sherlock Holmes stories.
Good stuff. I really like old movies a lot, and this is the first Sherlock Holmes film I've ever seen. I really liked it. I loved how the exterior view of the train was just a close up of a model train on a track, but the mystery in the story was fantastic. It kept me going the w...( read more)
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