Dressed to Kill (1946 film)

Dressed to Kill

Directed by	Roy William Neill
Produced by	Roy William Neill
Written by	Frank Gruber Leonard Lee
Based on	The Adventure of the Six Napoleons 1903 short stories (56) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Starring	Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce Patricia Morison
Music by	Jack Brooks
Cinematography	Maury Gertsman
Edited by	Saul A. Goodkind
Production company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	May 24, 1946 (1946-05-24) (New York City, New York) June 7, 1946 (1946-06-07) (United States)
Running time	76 minutes (copyright length) 72 minutes (restored version)
Country	United States
Language	English

Dressed to Kill

Dressed to Kill, released in 1946, also known as Prelude to Murder (working title) and Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Code in the United Kingdom, is the last of fourteen films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.

Plot

A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison (played by an uncredited Cyril Delevanti) hides the location of stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes (each of which plays a subtly different version of "The Swagman"). The boxes are sold at a local auction house.^[1]

A criminal gang's brains belong to a darkly beautiful, ruthless woman, who is also a "consummate actress", as Holmes learns. She disguises herself as a charwoman and speaking Cockney, insults and berates both Holmes and Watson, whom she pretends not to recognize, and leaves with a music box right under their noses. Holmes must recover the last music box to crack the secret code contained in the tune before it is too late.

Cast

Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce as Dr. John H. Watson
Patricia Morison as Hilda Courtney/Charwoman
Edmund Breon as "Stinky" Emery (as Edmond Breon)
Frederick Worlock as Colonel Cavanaugh (as Frederic Worlock)
Carl Harbord as Inspector Hopkins
Patricia Cameron as Evelyn Clifford
Holmes Herbert as Ebenezer Crabtree
Harry Cording as Hamid
Mary Gordon as Mrs. Hudson
Ian Wolfe as Commissioner of Scotland Yard
Anita Sharp-Bolster as the Schoolteacher on a Museum Tour

References

↑ "Dressed to Kill". AllMovie. Retrieved August 9, 2016.

External links

Dressed to Kill at the Internet Movie Database
Dressed to Kill at the TCM Movie Database
Dressed to Kill at AllMovie
Dressed to Kill at the American Film Institute Catalog
Dressed to Kill is available for free download at the Internet Archive

Screen adaptations of Sherlock Holmes stories

Silent films

Sherlock Holmes Baffled (1900)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom (1905)
Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery (1908)
Arsène Lupin contra Sherlock Holmes (1910)
Der Hund von Baskerville (1914)
Detektiv Braun (1914)
A Study in Scarlet (1914 British film)
A Study in Scarlet (1914 US film)
The Valley of Fear (1916)
Sherlock Holmes (1916)
Sherlock Holmes (1922)
Der Hund von Baskerville (1929)

Stoll series

Wontner series

Rathbone-Bruce
series

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Voice of Terror (1942)
Secret Weapon (1943)
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
The Spider Woman (1944)
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
The Pearl of Death (1944)
House of Fear (1945)
The Woman in Green (1945)
Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
Terror by Night (1946)
Dressed to Kill (1946)

Maslennikov
series

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1979)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981)
The Treasures of Agra (1983)
The Twentieth Century Approaches (1986)

By actor

Clive Brook	The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929) Sherlock Holmes (1932)

Peter Cushing	The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) The Masks of Death (1984)

Christopher Lee	The Deadly Necklace (1962) The Leading Lady (1991) Incident at Victoria Falls (1991)

Christopher Plummer	Silver Blaze (1977) Murder by Decree (1979)

Ian Richardson	The Sign of Four (1983) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983) Murder Rooms (2000)

Matt Frewer	The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000) The Sign of Four (2001) The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002) The Royal Scandal (2003)

Ian Hart (as Watson)	The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) The Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)

Robert Downey, Jr.	Sherlock Holmes (2009) A Game of Shadows (2011)

Other films

The Speckled Band (1931)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932)
A Study in Scarlet (1933)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937)
A Study in Terror (1965)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972)
Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982)
Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse (1983)
The Case of Marcel Duchamp (1984)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987)
Hands of a Murderer (1990)
The Crucifer of Blood (1991)
1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993)
The Hound of London (1993)
Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002)
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007)
Sherlock Holmes (2010)
Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)
Mr. Holmes (2015)

Comedies,
pastiches,
and parodies

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
The Limejuice Mystery or Who Spat in Grandfather's Porridge? (1930)
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1937)
The Case of the Screaming Bishop (1944)
Deduce, You Say! (1956)
They Might Be Giants (1971)
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
The Return of the World's Greatest Detective (1976)
Sherlock Pink (1976)
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
The Private Eyes (1980)
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Without a Clue (1988)
The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (1997)
Zero Effect (1998)
A Samba for Sherlock (2001)
Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler (2006)
Aria the Scarlet Ammo (2008)
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes (2009)
Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes (2010)
The Empire of Corpses (2015)
Gnomeo & Juliet: Sherlock Gnomes (2018)

Television
series

Sherlock Holmes (1951)
Sherlock Holmes (1954)
Sherlock Holmes (1965–68)
Sherlock Holmes (1967–68)
Sherlock Holmes (1968)
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1979-80)
Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (1982)
The Baker Street Boys (1983)
Sherlock Hound (1984–85)
Sherlock Holmes (1984–94)
- episodes
Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (1999–2001)
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (2000)
Sherlock (2010–present)
Sherlock Yack (2011–present)
Elementary (2012–present)
Sherlock Holmes (2013)
Sherlock Holmes (2014)

Films directed by Roy William Neill

The Price Mark (1917)
Yes or No? (1920)
Something Different (1920)
The Woman Gives (1920)
The Idol of the North (1921)
The Conquest of Canaan (1921)
The Iron Trail (1921)
What's Wrong with the Women? (1922)
The Man from M.A.R.S (1922)
Vanity's Price (1924)
Broken Laws (1924)
Marriage in Transit (1925)
The City (1926)
The Viking (1928)
Lady Raffles (1928)
Wall Street (1929)
The Melody Man (1930)
The Menace (1932)
That's My Boy (1932)
The Circus Queen Murder (1933)
Black Moon (1934)
Jealousy (1934)
The Black Room (1935)
Doctor Syn (1937)
Gypsy (1937)
The Viper (1938)
Thank Evans (1938)
Simply Terrific (1938)
Many Tanks Mr. Atkins (1938)
Everything Happens to Me (1938)
A Gentleman's Gentleman (1939)
Murder Will Out (1939)
Hoots Mon! (1940)
The Good Old Days (1940)
Madame Spy (1942)
Eyes of the Underworld (1942)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Rhythm of the Islands (1943)
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
The Spider Woman (1944)
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
The Pearl of Death (1944)
Gypsy Wildcat (1944)
Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear (1945)
The Woman in Green (1945)
Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
Terror by Night (1946)
Dressed to Kill (1946)
Black Angel (1946)

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/9/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.