Sherlock Holmes - Double Feature - The Secret Weapon & Terror by Night - DVD

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) pretends to be a Nazi spy to aid scientist Dr. Franz Tobel (William Post, Jr.) and his invention (a bombsight), while in Switzerland. Holmes and Franz fly back to London, but Franz slips away for a secret meeting with his fiancée, handing her a coded message to be presented to Holmes should anything happen to him. Holmes receives a call telling him that Tobel has disappeared. Holmes goes to Charlotte's apartment, where he receives Tobel's envelope. Rather than the coded message, the message inside is from Holme's nemesis, master criminal Professor Moriarty (Lionel Atwill). Moriarty has abducted Tobel to retrieve the secrets to his invention, which Tobel had given in four sections to trusted associates. Holmes returns to Charlotte's apartment to search for the four missing parts to the encoded message. Holmes is able to deduce three of the message's parts, but cannot figure out the fourth. Meanwhile, Moriarty is torturing Tobel in order to uncover the four parts to the message. Who deciphers the encoded message first - Holmes or Moriarty? Lots of action and thrills to come, making this one of the best Holme's classics ever made! (65 minutes - 1943 - Black & White - 4 3).

Vivian Vedder (Renee Godfrey) is transporting her mother's deceased body in it's coffin via train to Scotland. Lady Margaret Carstairs (Mary Forbes) is also aboard the train with her famous Star of Rhodesia diamond. Roland (Geoffrey Steele), Lady Carstair's son, has hired personnel to protect the diamond. Shortly afterward, Roland is murdered and the diamond is stolen. Holmes (Basil Rathbone), is pushed out of the train, nearly to his death, but he climbs back inside and discovers a secret compartment in the coffin carrying Miss Vedder's mother. He suspects that one of the people on the train is the notorious jewel thief, Colonel Sebastian Moran (Alan Mowbray). Miss Vedder admits that a man paid her to transport the coffin. In the luggage compartment, Holmes and Watson find a guard murdered with a poisoned dart. A criminal named Sands (Skelton Knaggs) incapacitates the conductor and steals the diamond, but Moran double-crosses Sands, shooting him dead with the dart gun. The train makes an unexpected stop and a scuffle ensues, but you'll have to watch this classic Holmes mystery to find out how all of this ends. This is vintage Sherlock Holmes material... (57 minutes - 1946 - Black & White - 4 3).

In Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) pretends to be a Nazi spy to aid scientist Dr. Franz Tobel (William Post Jr.) whose new invention, the InchTobel Bombsight,Inch could turn the tide in favor of the allies. When Tobel disappears leaving behind only a cryptic message, it's up to Holmes and Watson to crack the code and track down the missing inventor. The Secret Weapon is notable for the first appearance of Dennis Hoey as Inspector Lestrad, a Scotland Yard detective who will would appear in several subsequent films. This is the fourth of fourteen films starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson- a must see for all Sherlock Holmes fans.