Which Sherlock Holmes movie — ...
Your move: Basil Rathbone
Question: Which Sherlock Holmes movie — starring Basil, of course — has a floor that's a chessboard? Holmes looks over the second-floor balcony and sees the board. — Tawnya
What is the piece of music played over the end credits of Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking? It features violin and cello, and was also played by Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany in the last scene of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
Answer: As a longtime Sherlock Holmes fan, I was delighted to find not one but two questions pertaining to the world's first consulting detective. The Basil Rathbone movie in which a floor designed like a giant chessboard features into the mystery is Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943), which many fans consider the best of Universal's Holmes movies. It's loosely based on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story The Musgrave Ritual. The music used over the end credits of the recent Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004), an original story starring Rupert Everett as Holmes, is 18th-century composer Luigi Boccherini's "La Musica Notturna Delle Strade di Madrid," No. 6, Op. 30, and as you noted, it also figures into the last scene of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003).
