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Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production:
Running Times: 65 mins 13 sec (UK - theatrical)
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Universal Pictures
Executive Producer: Howard Benedict
Producer: Roy William Neill
SCRIPT
Script: Leonard Lee
Story: The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle
DIRECTION
Director: Roy William Neill
Assistant Director: Seward Webb
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Paul Ivano
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Saul A. Goodkind
MUSIC
Musical Director: Edgar Fairchild
Music: Hans J. Salter, Ralph Freed (uncredited), Leigh Harline (uncredited),
Paul Sawtell (uncredited), Frank Skinner (uncredited)
Songs: Everett Carter (uncredited), Milton Rosen (uncredited)
Lyrics: Jack Brooks, Everett Cutler
Songs Performed By: Marjorie Riordan (There Isn't Any Harm In That;
Flow Gently Sweet Afton; Cross My Heart); Nigel Bruce (Loch Lomond)
SOUND
Sound: Bernard B. Brown
Sound Technician: Robert Pritchard
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Jack P. Pierce
Costume Designer: Vera West
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Directors: John B. Goodman, Martin Obzina
Set Decorators: Russell A. Gausman, Ralph Sylos
MISCELLANEOUS
Dialogue Director: Raymond Kessler
CAST
Basil Rathbone (Sherlock Holmes)
Nigel Bruce (Dr Watson)
Marjorie Riordan (Sheila Woodbury)
Rosalind Ivan (Agatha Dunham)
Martin Kosleck (Mirko)
John Abbott (Jodri)
Frederick Worlock (Prime Minister)
Morton Lowry (Steward)
Leslie Vincent (Nikolas Watson)
Gerald Hamer (Kingston)
Rex Evans (Gregor)
Wee Willie Davis (Gubec)
Wilson Benge (clergyman - uncredited)
Sven Hugo Borg (Johansson - uncredited)
Tom Dillon (restaurant owner - uncredited)
Gregory Gaye (Ravez - uncredited)
Olaf Hytten (Simpson - uncredited)
Dorothy Kellogg (fuzzy looking woman - uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
Holmes and Watson are escorting Nikolas, the heir to a foreign throne
on a transatlantic voyage. Nikolas' life is in danger from a number
of would-be assassins who are lurking among his fellow passengers aboard
the luxury liner.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Very much a routine thriller that has little to do with Conan Doyle.
The task at hand is mundane and barely worthy of the great detective's
talents and only the performances of the two leads, still able to bring
a freshness and energy to the parts even after all this time, makes
it at all watchable. It's greatest sin is that it is simply forgettable.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributor: General Film Distributors
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Universal Pictures
Video Distributor: Fox Home Entertainment
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: S
UK
Rating: U (1945)
USA
Rating: Approved (PCA #11214)
TIMELINE
1945
October
26: USA - theatrical release
December
11: UK - rated U by the BBFC (for theatrical release)
1947
August
8: Finland - theatrical release
1959
August
24: UK - television broadcast (on Granada Television)
1960
May
19: UK - television broadcast (on Rediffusion)
1993
March
10: USA - video release (Fox Home Entertainment)
2000
June
28: UK - television broadcast (on BBC2)
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Destinazione Algeri - Italian title
Gefährliche Mission - German title
Sherlock Holmes - Gefährliche Mission - German title
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
The Hound of
the Baskervilles (1939)
The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Sherlock
Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret
Weapon (1942)
Sherlock
Holmes in Washington (1943)
Sherlock
Holmes Faces Death (1943)
Spider Woman
(1944)
The Scarlet Claw
(1944)
The Pearl of Death
(1944)
The House of Fear
(1945)
The Woman in Green
(1945)
SEQUELS
Terror by Night
(1946)
Dressed to Kill
(1946)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Kinematograph Weekly no.2018 (20 December
1945) (UK)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.13 p.5 (UK)
credits, review
Motion Picture Herald vol.161 no.4 (27
October 1945) (USA)
review
New York Motion Picture Critics Reviews vol.2
no.38 (5 November 1945) pp.154-155 (USA)
review, credits
Today's Cinema vol.65 no.5281 (19 December
1945) (UK)
review
BOOKS
Universal Horrors by Michael Brunas,
John Brunas and Tom Weaver (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co (1990))
credits, review
KEYWORDS
Sherlock Holmes;
detectives; ships; sequels
Last Updated:
10 August, 2009
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