![]() The convict’s gang were suppose to show up at the auction and purchase all three music boxes. Courtney is dressed to the nines, as she is throughout the movie. The grinning “Stinky” invites her over, whereupon she latches immediately upon the simple music box that the thief did not steal. For some reason she needs to come over this very night and have a look at his marvelous music box collection. Hilda Courtney ( Patricia Morison), whom “Stinky” has met previously at a perfectly boring party. ![]() Soon after Holmes and Watson leave “Stinky” receives a phone call. Holmes is fascinated that the thief only took a cheap box, much like the one “Stinky” just purchased, shown here.Īnd that’s the end of poor “Stinky.” Serves him right for having such a humiliating school nickname. Watson and Holmes join “Stinky” to view his music box collection. ![]() Somebody has attempted to burgle his residence and has koshed him in the noggin in the process. Later “Stinky” shows up at the lodgings of Holmes and Watson, 221B Baker Street in London. A Scotsman is there with his young daughter, but he’s too frugal to bid on the first two boxes. “Stinky” Emery ( Edmund Breon), and the other is the proprietor of a local gift shop, a Miss Evelyn Clifford, ( Patricia Cameron). We next see two people at said auction, purchasing two of the music boxes. He’s making cheap little music boxes, which are destined for sale at an auction house for the benefit of the prison. We first see the thief ( Cyril Delevanti), working away in a prison shop. What it does have to do with is a thief in Dartmoor Prison who has to get word out to his confederates. It has nothing to do with Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventure of the Dancing Men. Please disregard what Wikipedia has to say about the inspiration for the plot. It’s Dressed to Kill out of Universal Studios in 1946 and starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. I’ve watched movies from this series on Turner Classic Movies, and the cinematography, while not front line, has always been better than this. Images are screen shots from a DVD I made from a so-so quality VHS tape. More’s the pity I did not have a DVD copy of this.
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