Let's be realistic.

Dreadfully Boring

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

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

Sherlock Holmes is a character made by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle died in 1930, and he did not write science fiction. The character is one of the best known fictional characters in the world, and that character lived in London in the period that the stories where written. That's why Sherlock Holmes fighting Nazis is just too idiotic and a mockery of Doyles work. If you like Sherlock Holmes, you should Watch the character in some of the Sherlock Holmes series. The best are:Sherlock Holmes: TV Series (1954–1955). Sherlock Holmes: TV Series(1964–1968). The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: TV Series (1984–1985).This on the other hand is NOT Sherlock Holmes...

I really like this film. It is filled with forgotten actors and actresses that are great in their roles. I especially enjoy Thomas Gomez as the head bad guy. I have no problems with the updating of the stories to modern times. I enjoy Rathbone and Bruce interacting together in their roles.I know a lot of people, especially critics constantly criticize Nigel Bruce. I find he is fine in his role. You can see that in this series Holmes and Watson care about each other. Dr. Watson also shows some observations that pivotal to the case. You can also see that holmes and watson have a sense of humor. They are not afraid to show it. I think these are three dimensional. I have watch the Brett series, (and others), but they seem to be distant to each other. The only other portrayals that i think comes this close in Plummer and Mason in Murder by Decree.

John Rawlins directed this first in the Universal Studios series Sherlock Homes pictures(unrelated to the first two from 20th Century Fox) that still uses Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce as Holmes & Watson. The setting is modern day(1942) England, and the British public is subjected to Nazi propaganda radio broadcasts called the voice of terror. British intelligence calls in Sherlock Holmes to investigate, and his underworld contact is killed, so enlists his wife Kitty(played by Evelyn Ankers) to ferret out the Nazi elements at work, and it turns out to be led by a mole in the department... Serviceable film must have been an effective morale booster. Loosely based on "His Last Bow".

For the war effort Hollywood enlisted the most famous detective in fiction, Sherlock Holmes to solve the mystery of the Voice Of Terror. There's a gentleman who is giving out enemy propaganda broadcasts for the Axis powers and unlike the real life Lord Haw Haw, he's doing it by short wave radio inside the United Kingdom.What his broadcasts include though is vital information that could only come from the highest levels. He's predicting ship sinkings before they actually occur. Winston Churchill's inner circle has one very big leak in it.Though Churchill does not appear we see several members of that circle, all fictional people, no one like Clement Attlee, Anthony Eden, Ernest Bevin, Stafford Cripps, et al, but people from the British colony including some who were known for playing villains. The most prominent being Henry Daniell who in fact played Professor Moriarty in future Holmes movies. Don't take that as any kind of hint.Of course Holmes finds out who the Voice Of Terror is, but the mystery is who was the leak. And this is one of the most preposterous conclusions to a Holmes film ever done, maybe the most preposterous. For this scheme to be accurate it would have to have been concocted before there was even a Nazi Party if chronologically accurate. Even World War II audiences fervent for movies defending the Allied cause would have had a problem swallowing this one.The film is based on elements from real Conan Doyle stories. As Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930 of course they were updated to a World War II setting. Seeing Sherlock Holmes And The Voice Of Terror now would have today's audience open mouthed with incredulity.