Pursuit to Algiers

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Ted B @Movieaddicted 04/28/2025 3.5 stars; One of the better Basil Rathbone -Sherlock Holmes Series movies. Rather than the standard murder mystery, Sherlock's skills are focused on enemy espionage. He is required to determine who the real spies are and how they are planning to assassinate a royal member he is assigned to escort back to England. See more Russ G @RT78760655 06/30/2024 I'd say it's one of the more plausible and entertaining "Holmes and Watson time-travel to the 20th Century" capers. If there's weak spot it's the side bar of Watson's infatuation with the much younger songbird on the voyage. The writers did a decent job of concealing Sherlock's subterfuge until the big reveal. See more 03/29/2015 good entry in the Sherlock holmes series See more 07/07/2014 This story is about espionage while travelling on a ship to Algiers. Basil Rathbone is the only true Sherlock. See more andy f @RT81936104 11/12/2013 Possibly the weakest of all of the Rathbone and Bruce Holmes movies. After a terrific start, we are then given tedious hokum on board a boat for most of the film. Algiers is but a pipe dream! See more 01/02/2013 Pursuit to Algiers is the 12th Basil Rathbone and Bruce Nigel Sherlock film, and itâ(TM)s based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyleâ(TM)s characters. The movie is noted to have taken some characters and elements from Conan Doyleâ(TM)s The Adventure of the Red Circle. The movieâ(TM)s plot is quite ingenious, as it takes you unawares in the way things just turn up, with Sherlock proving to be a mastermind genius from the way he disguised the King, to the way he got himself on the boat, after sending Dr. Watson ahead. Majority of the movie is shot in a boat setting, and the movie even ends on the boat, which gave way for us to see some nice cinematography and the plot shows a little of what many people think Sherlock is, a guy who is too smart for we the rest of the world. Before this was The Woman in Green (1945) and that was also directed by Roy William Neill, who actually did a better job here than he did in The Woman in Green. The screenplay was done by Leonard Lee, who did a good job making sure each time you spent watching this movie, anticipation is created as you are curious to see how Holmes is going to pull it off, and the final twist in the movie was just the icing on the cake of this masterpiece. The movieâ(TM)s plot starts with our duo planning a vacation to take a load off the unending cases that they seem to be swamped in, when some series of fortunate events start to happen on their way home, Sherlock was able to deduce from the series of events that he was been called for a meeting. After he had solved the events to deduce the address (which was basic elementary if I could say so myself) and time of the meeting, he attended it and he is giving a task which he took. The task was given to him by the prime minister of the fictional country of Rovinia, who begs Holmes to escort Prince Nikolas back to his country Rovinia. It turns out that his father has been assassinated, and Nikolas is the next in line to be king, but since he left the country at birth to be raised in England no one but the prime minister and a few knows what he looks like, and the assassinators of the father will stop at nothing to kill Prince Nikolas. The movie is a nice watch, it is one movie that you watch, and then you gather your friends around to watch with you and just telling them that there is something at the end that they canâ(TM)t guess what it is. It is a nice addition to anyoneâ(TM)s shelf of movie collections. The ending joke of the movie had Sherlock telling Watson that no matter what, Watson should not take up a career as an actor as he is a bad actor, which is why sometimes he (Sherlock) has to keep things from him. www.lagsreviews.com See more Read all reviews

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