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Holmes and Watson are on a transatlantic ocean liner escorting Nikolas, heir to a foreign throne. However, a number of assassins are also on board...
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Pursuit to Algiers is directed by Roy William Neill and adapted to screenplay by Leonard Lee, based on characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle. It stars Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Riordan, Rosalind Ivan and Morton Lowry. Music is by Edgar Fairchild and cinematography by Paul Ivano. Film is the twelfth of fourteen made featuring Rathbone and Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson respectively. Plot finds the pair involved in trying to safely escort home the heir to the throne of Rovinia. With the Prince under threat of assassination, the pair must keep their wits about them as they sail onwards to Algiers.
After opening with considerable interest in fog bound London-as Holmes follows some cryptic clues to a meeting with the Prime Minister of Rovinia-film then drifts amiably along without much fuss or care for Holmsian drama. It rarely feels like a Sherlock Holmes film, and in truth it looks like Rathbone in particular was going through the motions. With 98% of the film set on a ship, there was considerable scope for a tight thriller, but plot plods along feeding on red herrings and nothing else. It's a waiting game, for both them and us, and it's really not that much fun. There's a good twist to reward the patient, and the sight of Watson warbling Loch Lomond is something positive to take away from the experience. But it's a poor entry in the series and it dwells near the bottom of the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes list. 5/10
After opening with considerable interest in fog bound London-as Holmes follows some cryptic clues to a meeting with the Prime Minister of Rovinia-film then drifts amiably along without much fuss or care for Holmsian drama. It rarely feels like a Sherlock Holmes film, and in truth it looks like Rathbone in particular was going through the motions. With 98% of the film set on a ship, there was considerable scope for a tight thriller, but plot plods along feeding on red herrings and nothing else. It's a waiting game, for both them and us, and it's really not that much fun. There's a good twist to reward the patient, and the sight of Watson warbling Loch Lomond is something positive to take away from the experience. But it's a poor entry in the series and it dwells near the bottom of the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes list. 5/10
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Not very good quality. I was disappointed because I've had similar films and they've been fine.
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what a fantastic oldie-love these types of film. Can't beat Basil rathbone and Nigel Bruce
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