The premise of this movie runs contrary to everything portrayed about Sherlock Holmes in the 90 years since its production. The movie begins with Sherlock Holmes planning to retire and get married, what? Sherlock would never.
Luckily Professor Moriarty escapes from prison and the retirement/wedding nonsense must be put on hold of course, in order to re-capture the villainous Moriarty. From there it proceeds apace with Holmes deducting his way along and barely putting up with actual law enforcement attempts to participate.
They also insert a kid, Billy, into the proceedings basically as yet another person to worship Holmes and I'm not really sure why else.
I found the original Arthur Wontner films to be more compelling than this first attempt after the Wontner era and before we get to Basil Rathbone. I gave this one a 6 on effort but so much better has been done with Sherlock since.
Luckily Professor Moriarty escapes from prison and the retirement/wedding nonsense must be put on hold of course, in order to re-capture the villainous Moriarty. From there it proceeds apace with Holmes deducting his way along and barely putting up with actual law enforcement attempts to participate.
They also insert a kid, Billy, into the proceedings basically as yet another person to worship Holmes and I'm not really sure why else.
I found the original Arthur Wontner films to be more compelling than this first attempt after the Wontner era and before we get to Basil Rathbone. I gave this one a 6 on effort but so much better has been done with Sherlock since.