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The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes

UK 1935
produced by
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directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
starring Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming (II), Lyn Harding, Leslie Perrins, Jane Carr, Charles Mortimer, Ben Welden, Roy Emerton, Minnie Rayner, Michael Shepley, Conway Dixon
based on the novel Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Wontner), Moriarty, Moriarty (Lyn Harding)

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Mike Haberfelner

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When Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Wontner) officially announces his retirement, professor Moriarty (Lyn Harding), the only crook he could never prove guilty, is one of the first to congratulate him.

However, Holmes does not plan to stay idle in retirement & soon gets information from one of his undercover agents in Moriarty's organisation that a murder is to be committerd  - & really, Moriarty was hired by Amreican Balding (Ben Welden) to get rid of a renegade member of his organisation ... whatever that is.

Holmes & Watson (Ian Fleming, no not the Ian Fleming, but still, an Ian Fleming) are soon called to the country estate of John Douglas (Leslie Perrins), who has been brutally murdered, his face literally shot away - & it does seem the killer has left thrugh the window, leading the police to search the vicinity for the killer ... but Holmes has different ideas - about both the jkiller & the victim - & forces Douglas' wife Ettie (Jane Carr) to come clean.

She tells of how she met Douglas back in the USA & immediately fell in love with him, even though he became a member of the Scowlers, a criminal organisation, & soon became the favourite of Boss McGinty (Roy Emerton), much to the dismay of above mentioned Balding who was previously McGinty's favourite and had his claims on Ettie. However, all his attempts to discredit Douglas or even have him arrested failed, & even when a Pinkerton detective showed up in town, Douglas seemed to have a plan to get rid of him. The gang had high hopes in that plan, but then it backfired when Douglas turned out to be the detective himself & had the whole gang arrested by the police ...

This seems to be the end of the story, but then Balding broke out of prison, with nothing on his mind but killing Douglas - in which he seems to have finally succeeded.

Delighted to finally know who he is looking for Lestrade rushes oft to arrest a killer, but Holmes is still not satisfied ... & finally he discovers a secret passageway, & iin it ... Douglas, very much alive - turns out the dead man wasn't him at all but of all people Balding, who indeed wanted to kill him, but was killed himself in an ensuing struggle - & Douglas merely seized the opportunity to fake his own ddeath to escape further vengeance of the Scowlers.

Case solved, but in the end, Moriarty also shows up (if only to confirm he was involved in the crime), but Holmes, Watson & Lestrade already await him, & during his escape he is killed by a bullet & a fall from a high tower into the swamps ... but is he.

 

The direction of this movie is pretty stagey, & seeing Holmes deducting proves to be rather dull as it is presented without either suspense or humour, but the shifting of the plot to America & replacing the very sober detective work with a more earthy gangster story proves to be a pleasent change, adding vastly to this movie's entertainment values. However, why the character Moriarty was even written into the story remains something of a mystery, fotr the core plot would work equally fine without him (somehow I got the impression that Balding hired Moriarty to kill Douglas, but in the end he tried to kill Douglas himself - so why even bother hiring Moriarty ?).

 

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