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Dressed To Kill

1946, Movie, NR, 72 mins

Dressed To Kill: Review

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This was the 12th and final Holmes film starring Rathbone and, not surprisingly, also one of the weakest, hampered by a mundane script and spotty production values. Three music boxes made by an inmate at the British prison Dartmoor are desperately sought by a bevy of villains because they contain stolen Bank of England printing plates. The chief villain is Hilda Courtney (Morison), a female miscreant not unlike Gale Sondergaard's character in THE WOMAN IN GREEN. With the economy of Britain hanging in the balance, Holmes and Watson (Bruce) work diligently to find the boxes containing the elusive plates before they fall into the wrong hands. The most amusing moment in this tepid tale is provided when Bruce does an imitation of a duck. At the risk of destroying his friendship with Bruce (it didn't), Rathbone opted to abandon the series in favor of legitimate stage roles. Rathbone felt he had lost his own identity to the ever-deducing creation of Conan Doyle and vowed to regain it by abandoning the character once and for all. Although he would go on to many stage successes and other movie roles, Rathbone would be forever linked to the great Sherlock. He had simply performed the part too well and for too long to shed the image. leave a comment
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