Word: sherlock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without the co-feature, Dead Men Tell, the show would have a hard time climbing out of the B ranking, but this latest Charlie Chan is different enough to be clever. Sidney Toler, Warner Olan's successor as China's Confucius-Sherlock Holmes combine manages to keep a boatload of psychopathic treasure hunters, a pirate ghost, and his number-two son well in tow. If you can see Chan. Even if you can't, see Hope--the dope...
...Michael Shayne, Private Detective" is a grade B show which deserves an A minus. The plot, as is customary in Hollywood murder mysteries, tells how a private detective outsmarts the public defectives. But Lloyd Nolan raises the show way above average by an excellent performance as the sport-coated Sherlock Holmes...
...most unlikely that Ellory Queen, Nero Wolfe, or even an up-to-date version of Sherlock Holmes could hold a job in a modern police organization...
Written by William Gillette, the man who made Sherlock Holmes a stage personality, the comedy includes two cases of mistaken identify revolving around three love affairs. Since the time of the play is about 1900, the cast will be fully costumed. The scenery is being designed by Ted Werch...
Died. Lady Conan Doyle, 65, widow of Spiritualist-Writer Arthur Conan Doyle (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, etc.) with whom she claimed to have been in communication since his death in 1930; of heart failure after an operation; in London...