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Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1943
Running Times: 68 mins 16 sec (UK - video)
71 mins 27 sec (UK - theatrical)
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS PRODUCTION
Production Company: Universal Pictures
Producer: Roy William Neill
Associate Producer: Howard Benedict SCRIPT
Script: Lynn Riggs
Story: Bertram Millhauser DIRECTION
Director: Roy William Neill PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Lester White EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Otto Ludwig MUSIC
Musical Director: Charles Previn
Music: Frank Skinner SOUND
Sound: Bernard B. Brown
Sound Technician: James Masterson MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Vera West DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Directors: Martin Obzina, Jack Otterson
Set Decorators: Russell A. Gausman, Edward R. Robinson MISCELLANEOUS
Technical Advisor: Tom McKnight CAST
Basil Rathbone (Sherlock
Holmes)
Nigel Bruce (Doctor Watson)
Marjorie Lord (Nancy Partridge)
Henry Daniell (William Easter)
George Zucco (Richard
Stanley)
John Archer (Lieutenant Pete Merriam)
Gavin Muir (Bart Lang)
Edmund MacDonald (Detective Lieutenant Grogan)
Don Terry (Howe)
Bradley Page (Cady)
Holmes Herbert (Mr Ahrens)
Thurston Hall (Senator Henry Babcock)
Gerald Hamer (John Grayson / Alfred Pettibone)
Mary Forbes (Beryl Pettibone)
Ian Wolfe (antique salesman)
John Burton (army inspector - uncredited)
Eddie Coke (steward - uncredited)
Evelyn Cook (girlfriend - uncredited)
Caroline Cooke (Mrs Ruxton - uncredited)
Kernan Cripps (hotel porter - uncredited)
Leslie Denison (bomber pilot - uncredited)
Gilbert Emery (Sir Henry Marchmont - uncredited)
Alice Fleming (Mrs Jellison - uncredited)
Mary Gordon (Mrs Hudson - uncredited)
Leyland Hodgson (airport official - uncredited)
Olaf Hytten (unconfirmed)
Alexander Lockwood, Charles Marsh, Gene O'Donnell (reporters - uncredited)
Tom Martin (waiter - uncredited)
Irving Mitchell (laboratory assistant - uncredited)
Clarence Muse (George - uncredited)
Jason Robards Sr (doorman - uncredited)
Paul Scott, Lee Shumway (army majors - uncredited)
Margaret Seddon (Miss Pringle - uncredited)
Regina Wallace (Mrs Bryce Partridge - uncredited)
Phil Warren (young officer - uncredited) SUMMARY A courier carrying documents vital to the Allied war effort goes missing on board a train to Washington. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson travel from London to try to unravel the mystery and return the documents to their rightful owners before it's too late... CAPSULE REVIEW
Now this was more like it! Universal finally got
into their stride with their third Holmes film, with the excellent
George Zucco back in
harness as the villain, a great supporting cast and a more likeable
script. The propaganda and moral boosting is still there but it fits
into the plot more comfortably, playing second fiddle to the mystery
which is exactly as it should be.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Video Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (7785) USA
Theatrical Distributor: Universal Pictures
Video Distributor: Fox Home Entertainement CENSORSHIP HISTORY Sweden
Rating: 15 UK
Rating: U (1942); U (1990) TIMELINE
1942
October
5: UK - rated U by the BBFC (for theatrical release)
1943
April
19: Sweden - theatrical release
30: USA - theatrical release
1948
February
Day Unknown: UK - theatrical release
1955
March
3: USA - television broadcast (on CBS)
1960
March
31: UK - television broadcast (on Rediffusion)
1990
June
12: UK - rated U by the BBFC (for theatrical release)
1992
May
11: UK - video release (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (7785))
1993
March
10: USA - video release (Fox Home Entertainement)
1995
September
19: UK - video deleted (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (7785))
2000
July
3: UK - television broadcast (on BBC2) ALTERNATIVE TITLES Verhängnisvolle Reise - 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)
SEQUELS
Sherlock
Holmes Faces Death (1943)
Spider
Woman (1944)
The
Scarlet Claw (1944)
The
Pearl of Death (1944)
The
House of Fear (1945)
Pursuit
to Algiers (1945)
The
Woman in Green (1945)
Terror
by Night (1946)
Dressed
to Kill (1946)
REFERENCES MAGAZINES Kinematograph Weekly no.1860 (10 December 1942) (UK)
review Kinematograph Weekly no.2129 (19 February 1948) (UK)
review Monthly Film Bulletin vol.10 (UK)
credits, review Motion Picture Herald vol.151 no.1 (3 April 1943) (USA)
review Today's Cinema vol.59 no.4810 (4 December 1942) (UK)
review Today's Cinema vol.70 no.5611 (18 February 1948) (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; sequels
Last Updated:
10 August, 2009
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