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21,801 | [
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21,802 | [
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21,803 | [
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21,804 | [
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21,805 | [
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21,806 | [
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21,807 | [
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21,808 | [
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21,809 | [
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21,810 | [
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21,811 | [
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21,812 | [
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21,813 | [
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21,814 | [
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21,815 | [
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21,816 | [
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21,817 | [
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21,818 | [
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21,819 | [
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21,820 | [
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21,821 | [
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] | 154 | 183 | watch this movie. it's truly a good ride through the difficulties of making a indie movie, and what happens when it blows up in the film maker's face. there's a lot of stuff about punk rock, and the philosophy behind that movement and it's relationship to this project. so if you're into old punk, American punk, you'll ... | 1 |
21,822 | [
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21,823 | [
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21,824 | [
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21,825 | [
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21,826 | [
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] | 484 | 563 | Iam not sure if discussing the television series is exactly where the comments should be drawn to,however it is on the television where the The Lone Ranger really made a name for himself.Iam not even referring to the original radio broadcasts of this masked rider of the plains,Iam though referring to a point where in a... | 1 |
21,827 | [
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21,828 | [
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21,829 | [
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21,830 | [
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21,831 | [
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21,832 | [
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21,833 | [
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21,834 | [
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21,835 | [
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21,836 | [
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21,837 | [
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21,838 | [
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21,839 | [
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21,840 | [
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21,841 | [
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21,842 | [
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21,843 | [
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21,844 | [
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21,845 | [
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21,846 | [
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21,847 | [
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21,848 | [
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21,849 | [
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21,850 | [
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21,851 | [
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21,852 | [
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21,853 | [
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21,854 | [
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21,855 | [
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21,856 | [
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21,857 | [
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21,858 | [
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21,859 | [
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21,860 | [
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21,861 | [
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21,862 | [
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21,863 | [
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21,864 | [
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21,865 | [
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21,866 | [
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21,867 | [
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21,868 | [
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21,869 | [
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21,870 | [
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21,871 | [
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21,873 | [
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21,874 | [
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21,875 | [
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21,876 | [
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21,877 | [
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21,878 | [
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21,879 | [
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21,880 | [
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] | 297 | 384 | The evil Professor Moriarty plots to gain control of both SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON which could win the war for the Nazis.<br /><br />Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce return to the screen as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved detective and sidekick, Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson, in this entertaining little myster... | 1 |
21,882 | [
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] | 267 | 343 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a fair number of Sherlock Holmes accounts but the popularity of the famous detective insured that sequels in both print and on film would extend far beyond the author's works.<br /><br />In "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon," Holmes, Basil Rathbone, patriotically serves British intelli... | 1 |
21,883 | [
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] | 358 | 502 | This jingoist outing concerns the usual battle Holmes vs. Moriaty,but this time in an effort to save the British war against the Nazis.Sherlock Holmes(Rathbone) and Watson(Bruce),the detecting duo living in 223 Baker Street,again are up against their old enemy Dr. Moriarty(Lionel Atwill).The film starts in Switzerland ... | 1 |
21,884 | [
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] | 220 | 277 | Not too bad entry in the series, heavily ladled with war propaganda, but Rathbone & Bruce's sincerity keep me happy.<br /><br />It's a rather fantastic story from start to finish, just how many McGuffin's are there? Holmes (and Moriarty independently) reeling out the Dancing Men code uncoded so fast was Amazing Watson ... | 1 |
21,885 | [
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] | 247 | 302 | Dr. Franz Tobel, a Swiss scientist, is smuggled out of his home country by Sherlock Holmes in order that the Nazi agents spying him do not get his invention of a new bomb sight. Arriving in London, he takes residence with Holmes and Watson, but goes out for a visit with his girlfriend, Charlotte Eberli, where he leaves... | 1 |
21,886 | [
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] | 873 | 1,151 | In the Universal series of modern Sherlock Holmes stories with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEOPON is not one of the top films - although it is entertaining. I think the problem with it is that much of the film's "dueling" between Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty (here played by Lionel ... | 1 |
21,887 | [
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] | 278 | 347 | For the sake of propaganda during World War II, Sherlock Holmes was moved into the then-present. One of the results is "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon," starring a top Holmes, Basil Rathbone, along with Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Dennis Hoey and Kaaren Verne. It is Holmes' assignment to deliver a scientist, Dr.... | 1 |
21,888 | [
200,
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] | 196 | 255 | Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Professor Moriarty (Lionel Atwill) engage in a battle of wits for control of a Switz inventor's newest bomb-sight creation. Holmes wants to safeguard it for the British while Moriarty isn't above selling out to the Nazis. <br /><br />While no doubt many fans will be disappointed to ... | 1 |
21,889 | [
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] | 177 | 214 | Since others have complained about putting Sherlock Holmes into a contemporary setting, I won't do that. Basil Rathbone could have fit in in any era with that voice, that savoir faire. This is a nicely put together mystery based loosely on "The Dancing Men," one of the best of Conan-Doyle's stories. Instead of the orig... | 1 |
21,890 | [
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] | 219 | 262 | This is a great late night movie! What I mean by that is that I truly have enjoyed playing my $3.00 VHS copy (now I have a $6.99 DVD Copy!) many nights just before bedtime or if I have insomnia. There's just something about this movie that makes it fun to watch in repeated viewings. It could be the fun that Basil Rathb... | 1 |
21,891 | [
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] | 137 | 177 | Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce return as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in this superior tale of Holmes battling the 3rd Reich and the mastermind genius of Professor Moriarty. The film opens up in Switzerland as Holmes is in disguise as an "old bookseller." He must bring Dr. Tobel and the Tobel Bomb Site to England bef... | 1 |
21,892 | [
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] | 247 | 306 | I liked this probably slightly more than Terror by Night though not enough to give it the extra *. The beginning is just brilliant, as we peek in on Nazi agents scheming to get their hands on a new bomb sight and its inventor in a small Swiss village, only to be foiled by a disguised Holmes who spirits the scientist ba... | 1 |
21,893 | [
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] | 706 | 834 | Beginning in 1942, the Sherlock Holmes character as portrayed by Basil Rathbone was set in the then 'modern' Britain. Many Holmes purists have praised the first two entries in the series (produced by FOX), but dismissed the 12 features that followed. I for one was never an avid reader, and thus I appreciate these films... | 1 |
21,894 | [
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] | 196 | 246 | Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson respectively, the second of the Universal series, where it's again established by means of a written prologue that the famed detective is legendary and spans time. This helps to comfortably set things up here in the "present" era of the early 1940's.<br /... | 1 |
21,895 | [
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] | 178 | 235 | It's one of the paradoxes of Basil Rathbone's wartime anti-Nazi Sherlock Holmes films (Voice of Terror, SH in Washington, and this one) that while the plots and settings are mostly terrible, he is so good in them. Despite a bizarre wind-swept hairstyle meant to make him look younger, he blazes through every scene with ... | 1 |
21,896 | [
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] | 741 | 913 | A brilliant Sherlock Holmes adventure starring the brilliant Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Despite many other actors brilliantly playing Holmes and Watson and making a great job of it- Rathbone and Bruce will always be the best two.<br /><br />Holmes takes a Professor Tobell from Switzerland to London. Tobell is want... | 1 |
21,897 | [
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] | 131 | 153 | I watched two very different Holmes adventures this morning, but you would be amazed at the similarities.<br /><br />The was presumably the first collaboration between Basil Rathbone (If I Were King, Romeo and Juliet) and Nigel Bruce, and director Roy William Neill. It was not their first Sherlock Holmes adventure, as ... | 1 |
21,898 | [
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] | 436 | 523 | Sherlock Holmes films from the classic Universal era tend to range in quality. This range goes from very good to above average, with none of their output being abysmal, or astoundingly brilliant. Sherlock Holmes and The Secret Weapon fits snugly into the middle ground quality-wise, and, as ever, it's an enjoyable outin... | 1 |
21,899 | [
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] | 64 | 79 | this movie takes the voice of terror and makes it better. holmes is protecting an inventor in switzerland and is on the trail of professor moriarity, who has become a nazi. this is a better version of holmes in a WWII world. rathbone does a great job with holmes as a spy and a detective. see this if you liked the voice... | 1 |
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