I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Review - Pursuit to Algiers Released 10-26-45 Out of the fourteen movies with Rathbone and Bruce, this was the weakest in plot adapted from Doyle, and it was not supported by any of the characters, nor actors, of those roles. The story had to be carried by our two principals, namely Bruce. The team worked well despite the poor script, but the bad guys were not convincing, or not as talented to pull off the story. The red herrings were so obvious and lame, they caused the story to rely exclusively with Holmes and Watson. A deception used often by Holmes is to hide the sought object in plain sight; here the object was the Prince disguised as a ship steward. A Prince educated in England requires safe passage to his country, by way of Algiers, and Holmes takes the case with the help of Watson and the Prince. The bad guys are foiled by Holmes at every turn while on shipboard cruising to Algiers. The knife throwing expertise of Mirko, a character Holmes knew from elsewhere; a bomb hidden as a dining-table party item; the guise of the likely Prince poised as Watson's relative, kidnapped, but recovered, as the crooks were arrested after leaving the ship. Entertaining movie with Holmes, Watson furnishing all the action, as it is, for the others missed the boat.

An outing that seems hugely removed from anything that could have possibly been penned by Conan Doyle, the film sees Holmes and Watson accompany a handsome played by Leslie Vincent, who's heading to Algiers to replace his assassinated father on the throne.The film boasts a clever bit of deception, and some interesting concepts, the beginning is really intriguing and full of mystery. Sadly once the voyage begins it becomes a little silly, funny hats, mutual smugness and a world almost unimaginable pre globalisation.Rathbone and Bruce as excellent value as always, but some of the other performances are a little on the shaky side, no names.It doesn't boast the suspense and intrigue that most of the Universal movies have, but it's well worth watching. 6/10

Pursuit To Algiers involves Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson in a job of security more than detective work. Both are looking to get away to Scotland for a little rest and relaxation, but they get a curious call for help from the Prime Minister of some Balkan country where the king has died. Not by accident as reported, but was assassinated.The Holmes mission is to get the Crown Prince to Algiers where presumably the state security people will take over. Why Algiers is never mentioned.As Basil Rathbone so wisely puts it he dislikes plans made by other people as they have a habit of blowing up in their faces. Rathbone makes his own security arrangements and part of it is making poor Nigel Bruce a decoy in more ways than one. How he succeeds in his mission is quite a good tale.Favorite scenes in this is Nigel Bruce singing Loch Lomond after singer Marjorie Riordan obliges him with a rendition of Flow Gently Sweet Afton. Nigel Bruce does not do bad with it either. The second scene is Rathbone outsmarting one of the three villains on a ship to Algeria. Martin Kosleck who is best known for playing Joseph Goebbels in several wartime films of varying quality plays an assassin skilled with the use of a thrown knife. I love how Rathbone not only foils him, but decommissions Kosleck for the rest of the film.Pursuit To Algiers is not pure Holmes in terms of a faithful recreation of an Arthur Conan Doyle, but Rathbone and Bruce are in good form and back from wartime propaganda films and now doing good mysteries.

Pursuit to Algiers is the 12th Basil Rathbone and Bruce Nigel Sherlock film, and it's based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's characters. The movie is noted to have taken some characters and elements from Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Red Circle.The movie'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 movie'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 can't guess what it is. It is a nice addition to anyone'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