Other Titles • Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon • Secret Weapon (1942) • Sherlock Holmes Fights Back (1942) • The Secret Weapon
Synopses for Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
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Holmes (Basil Rathbone) is back on the case and is attempting to save the world from the evil Professor Moriarty, who joins forces with the Nazi's to overtake the world. A Swiss scientist is kidnapped and it is up to Holmes to discover the secret of the intricate code the good doctor created to prevent his invention from falling into the wrong hands.
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A Swiss scientist invents a bomb sight that may very well decide the outcome of World War II and Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) is chosen to protect the device and its inventor from falling into the hands of the Nazis. When the inventor is kidnapped, the trail leads to Holmes' old enemy, Professor Moriarity (Lionel Atwill), who plans to sell both the bomb sight and its inventor to Germany. Holmes and Dr. Watson must decipher a code left behind by the missing scientist that will lead them to the device before Moriarity.
In this story of Second World War espionage and intrigue, writers Lowe, Darling and Hartmann, along with director Roy William Neill, deliver a Holmes who is as much a national asset in England's war against Germany as he is its greatest detective. Written to appeal to a wartime audience, the film turns the classic battle of wits between Holmes and Moriarity into one of patriotic good and evil in which the stakes are the freedom of the civilized world.
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The wartime plot pits Sherlock Holmes once more against his nemesis, the villainously brilliant Professor Moriarty, who was believed dead but is now working for the Nazis. The Nazis have assigned Moriarty to kidnap Dr. Franz Tobel, the inventor of a new super bombsight. Sherlock Holmes outwits the enemy agents and escapes with Tobel and his precious invention. But despite elaborate precautions, the inventor later disappears before the process of manufacturing the bombsight is perfected. Holmes and Watson must stop the Nazis from getting their hands on the new bombsight wrapped in a code of dancing men. Using a variety of disguises - a Swiss inventor, the Lascar sailor Ram Singh, and an old German booksellar, Holmes puts his own life on the line in a race against the clock to prevent Moriarty from carrying out his evil plans.
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