The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…
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What critics compared The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to
For those critics who complain that Ritchie's depiction of Holmes is not accurate to Doyle's accounts, I can only remind them that after Twentieth Century Fox made the second of their popular Basil Rathbone Holmes movies, "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," in 1939, the studio changed the time setting thereafter to World War II and beyond, a far bigger revision of Doyle's original concept than anything in Ritchie's world.