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Silver Blaze
Murder at the Baskervilles

UK 1937
directed by Thomas Bentley
starring Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming (II), Lyn Harding, John Turnbull, Robert Horton, Lawrence Grossmith, Judy Gunn, Arthur Macrae, Arthur Goullet, Martin Walker, Eve Gray, Gilbert Davis, Minnie Rayner, D.J.Williams, Ralph Truman
based on the novel Silver Blaze by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Wontner), Moriarty, Moriarty (Lyn Harding)

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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To have a few days of rest & relaxation, Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Wontner) decides - on Dr. Watson's (Ian Fleming ... nope, not the James Bond-Ian Fleming) advice - to take a few days off on Sir Henry Baskerville's (Lawrence Grossmith) country estate ... & he even decides to develop an interest in horsebetting, which is just as well, since on the very first night of his arrival, Colonel Ross' (Robert Horton) prizewinning horse Silver Blaze is stolen & the stableboy murdered ... & inspector Lestrade, who just happens to work in this area of the country right now & who's always one quick to jump to conclusions, arrests Jack Trevor (Arthur Macrae), the fiancé of Baskerville's daughter Diane (Judy Gunn) for the murder ...

Now Holmes just can't but investigate, & he soon finds more & more clues the inspector has overlooked, including the dead body of Straker (Martin Walker), owner of the stable Silver Blaze was kept in, & finally Holmes even finds the horse itself ... at the neighbouring stables of stableowner & horsethief Silas Brown (D.J.Williams), whom Holmes can persuade to secretly deliver the horse to the racetracks in time for the next races in exchange for his freedom.

Holmes soon finds a way to tie the whole case to his favourite enemy Moriarty (Lyn Harding) & his henchie Moran (Arthur Goullet), who he thinks have blackmailed Straker into poisoning the horse, but Holmes' theory is only ridiculed by Lestrade ... until Moriarty & Moran make an unsuccessful attack on the car he's driving in ...

At the day of the races Silver Blaze does indeed start courtesy of Silas Brown, & almost wins, too, but is gunned down just before the finish line. At the races, too, Holmes figures out that Moriarty was hired by Stanford (Gilbert Davis), who has placed a huge bet against Silver Blaze, & he has Watson follow Stanford's every step to find Moriarty's new headquarters. Watson does as asked but ends up as a prisoner of Moriarty, & is to be thrown down an elevatorshaft when Holmes & the police emerge from exactly that shaft to arrest Moriarty ...

 

This Sherlock Holmes-movie, the 5th & last of a series with Arthur Wontner in the title role, is probably the best of the bunch since it moves at a reasonable pace, is less talky & stagey than its predecessors (which is also achieved by a frequent change of scenery) & does keep up a certain suspense throughout. That said though, the movie suffers from some major plotholes & leaps in reason. Who for example has murdered Straker, as it was established that it was neither Moriarty & his henchmen, who needed Straker alive to get his assistance, nor Silas Brown, whom Holems lets off very easily, why was it necessary for Straker to kill the stableboy when he after all had the horse in his stables, how did Silas Brown get the horse, why would Moriarty come up with an overly difficult plan to poison the horse when he could have just shot it (as he did in the end), ... ?

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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