Dressed to Kill

(1946)

76 minutes

Crime / Mystery

aka "Prelude to Murder" or "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Code "

Directed by Roy William Neill

Cast: 

Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce as Dr. John H. Watson
Patricia Morison as Mrs. Hilda Courtney
Edmund Breon as Stinky Emery 
Frederick Worlock as Colonel Cavanaugh 
Carl Harbord as Inspector Hopkins
Patricia Cameron as Evelyn Clifford
Holmes Herbert as Ebenezer Crabtree
Harry Cording as Hamid
Leyland Hodgson as Tour guide
Mary Gordon as Mrs. Hudson
Ian Wolfe as Commissioner of Scotland Yard

A condemned burglar in Dartmoor prison conceals the position of the Bank of England printing plates he robbed inside three music boxes. Holmes and Watson are on scene to find out what is happening when the buyers of the boxes start being killed off. 

The owners of three inexpensive music boxes are being murdered and Sherlock Holmes begins to investigate what could be so important about the boxes.  This is Basil Rathbone’s final appearance on film as the legendary sleuth.

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