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Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

The first must-see film of the year.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Sherlock Holmes is a character made by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle died in 1930, and he did not write science fiction. The character is one of the best known fictional characters in the world, and that character lived in London in the period that the stories where written. That's why Sherlock Holmes fighting Nazis is just too idiotic and a mockery of Doyles work. If you like Sherlock Holmes, you should Watch the character in some of the Sherlock Holmes series. The best are:Sherlock Holmes: TV Series (1954–1955). Sherlock Holmes: TV Series(1964–1968). The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: TV Series (1984–1985).This on the other hand is NOT Sherlock Holmes...

I'm finding it hard to believe how badly the story fell apart when the reveal comes near the end of the picture. For the 'Voice of Terror' to have attained it's goals, the viewer is asked to accept that a German agent killed a British soldier TWENTY FOUR years earlier!! and assumed his identity, working his way into the British Intelligence Inner Council!! Man, I've heard of undercover operations before but this one takes the proverbial cake. It's just not very credible at all.Up till then, the story had a nicely mysterious quality as Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) is brought into the British government's inner circle by it's leader, Sir Evan Barham (Reginald Denny). We don't know it at the time, but Barham is really German Heindrich Von Boch, secretly pulling strings for the Nazis and setting up British targets for assault by the German war machine. When you think about it, Von Bach/Barham made the bonehead blunder of his life by inviting Holmes to the table to unmask the Voice of Terror. In the confrontation in which the German agent is revealed, Von Boch explains that it was his arrogant conceit that made him think he could outwit Holmes with this masquerade. I guess he never read Arthur Conan Doyle.I'd like to say more about the picture but I think it all becomes a moot exercise, almost like one of those stories that ends up being a dream sequence. One thing did strike me though relative to the movie's release date. England was already engaged in World War II at the time, so a remark Sherlock Holmes makes to his partner Watson (Nigel Bruce) was strikingly prescient - "There's an East Wind coming...". The picture ends on a patriotic note heralding a victory against the Nazis that no one could have predicted accurately at the time, not even Sherlock Holmes for all his brilliant deductive reasoning.

John Rawlins directed this first in the Universal Studios series Sherlock Homes pictures(unrelated to the first two from 20th Century Fox) that still uses Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce as Holmes & Watson. The setting is modern day(1942) England, and the British public is subjected to Nazi propaganda radio broadcasts called the voice of terror. British intelligence calls in Sherlock Holmes to investigate, and his underworld contact is killed, so enlists his wife Kitty(played by Evelyn Ankers) to ferret out the Nazi elements at work, and it turns out to be led by a mole in the department... Serviceable film must have been an effective morale booster. Loosely based on "His Last Bow".

For the war effort Hollywood enlisted the most famous detective in fiction, Sherlock Holmes to solve the mystery of the Voice Of Terror. There's a gentleman who is giving out enemy propaganda broadcasts for the Axis powers and unlike the real life Lord Haw Haw, he's doing it by short wave radio inside the United Kingdom.What his broadcasts include though is vital information that could only come from the highest levels. He's predicting ship sinkings before they actually occur. Winston Churchill's inner circle has one very big leak in it.Though Churchill does not appear we see several members of that circle, all fictional people, no one like Clement Attlee, Anthony Eden, Ernest Bevin, Stafford Cripps, et al, but people from the British colony including some who were known for playing villains. The most prominent being Henry Daniell who in fact played Professor Moriarty in future Holmes movies. Don't take that as any kind of hint.Of course Holmes finds out who the Voice Of Terror is, but the mystery is who was the leak. And this is one of the most preposterous conclusions to a Holmes film ever done, maybe the most preposterous. For this scheme to be accurate it would have to have been concocted before there was even a Nazi Party if chronologically accurate. Even World War II audiences fervent for movies defending the Allied cause would have had a problem swallowing this one.The film is based on elements from real Conan Doyle stories. As Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930 of course they were updated to a World War II setting. Seeing Sherlock Holmes And The Voice Of Terror now would have today's audience open mouthed with incredulity.