Dressed to Kill

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Dressed to Kill

Released May 24, 1946

1h 12m

Mystery & Thriller

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Holmes and Watson hunt for three music boxes containing directions to the whereabouts of six valuable engraving plates stolen from the Bank of England. They find themselves in competition with professional thieves also out to find the clues, which were hidden by a spiteful jailbird before the music boxes went up for auction.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

...directors like Roy William Neill brought timeless characters to life with great acting, no-nonsense direction and crisp scripting; the lack of visual jazz makes each of the Rathbone Holmes films a pleasure to watch....

Rated: 3/5

Jan 23, 2024

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Donald J. Levit

ReelTalk Movie Reviews

One of the classic movies pairing suave gaunt Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and plump Nigel Bruce as his bumbling Boswell, Dr. Watson.

Aug 4, 2007

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Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Final entry in the Rathbone series has a lot of style.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 31, 2006

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Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

Goatdog's Movies

The Rathbone/Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes films didn't exactly limp to a close, but it didn't go out on a high note either.

Rated: 3/5

May 2, 2006

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Mark Bourne

DVDJournal.com

...patched together from hand-me-down remnants. Director Roy William Neill and the writers seem to be just going through the motions while waiting for that final smack from the clapboard. Rathbone delivers a magnetic performance to the bitter end, though.

Apr 6, 2006

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Dennis Schwartz

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This is another enjoyable well-paced and acted mystery thriller in the series with the usual pleasant banter between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Rated: B

Aug 23, 2005

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nick s

Great movie, with magnetic acting, competent camera work, and clever ideas woven into the plot. The core concept was a little absurd, but ignore that. This is my favourite basil rathbone flick. It couldn't be done much better. Pity about stinky.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/08/23

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Audience Member

Rating: 6/10. 68/100

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

04/26/23

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Josh G

A clever novel adaption with Basil Rathbone. The cast is good and it's a middle of the road Sherlock Holmes adaption, great use of sound.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/07/23

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Liam D

For such an iconic series it's still good but it could have been better

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/16/22

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robert p

Another great adventure by Sherlock Holes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) .

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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joe m

Enjoyable if perfunctory Sherlock Holmes picture which finds Holmes (Rathbone) and Watson (Bruce) up against a trio of conspirators working with a prisoner who has kept mums about Treasury engraving plates that he hid somewhere in London before being nabbed. Taut, if not all that suspenseful, with the added appeal of a beautiful, yet deadly, opponent to Holmes in Mrs Courtney (Morison).

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Synopsis

Holmes and Watson hunt for three music boxes containing directions to the whereabouts of six valuable engraving plates stolen from the Bank of England. They find themselves in competition with professional thieves also out to find the clues, which were hidden by a spiteful jailbird before the music boxes went up for auction.

Director: Roy William Neill
Producer: Roy William Neill
Screenwriter: Frank Gruber
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Universal/Universal Int
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 24, 1946, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 1, 2012
Runtime: 1h 12m

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