THE RATHBONE HOLMES - THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1939)

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The opening credits play and, behind those most familiar of names stands Sherlock Holmes, in silhouette, pipe smoking and bullseye lamp casting its light as for clues. Closing on a cluttered desk, a book is opened. Inside, the opening page;

An English Court room. Four judges sit on the bench, as the Clerk of the Court asks a jury if they have reached verdict. They have. At the words 'The Prisoner will rise' a tidy, bespectacled man with a trim beard and scholarly air looks up from his note-ta...