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Trivia from imdb.com:
Despite the orange pips, the film is nothing like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original Sherlock Holmes short story ‘The Five Orange Pips’. That is at least partially because the main mystery in the original story is the odd writing of ‘KKK’ in a letter that contained the orange pips, which of course stands for the notorious American white supremacist/terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan. By 1945, the worldwide notoriety of that group made a faithful adaptation of the original story pointless for the typical audience and any adaptation of any kind required an extensive rewrite to use it.
The house in the shot could not possibly be the Alastair home because, firstly, it is a church and not a house, and, secondly, close inspection reveals that the front of the house is in ruins.
According to Harry Cording, the movie was filmed completely out of sequence. With first week filming the beginning and ending when all the cast members were present. He said that Cyril Delevanti, this first person murdered, only worked four days. Universal saved money by only paying for days work and filming each victim’s part in sequence. With the climax already filmed there was no need for any actor to return. Except for Aubrey Mather and Paul Cavanagh, when you died the pay stopped.
This is the only film of the series in which Holmes calls ‘Doctor John H. Watson’ by such a full form of his name. It happens in the very end shot of the movie.
Dr. Watson’s revolver appears to be an ordinary Colt Detective Special, perfectly in keeping with the contemporary (1940s) setting of the film, but out-of-sync with the traditional descriptor ‘service revolver’ usually ascribed to Watson’s weapon, as an Army surgeon would have been unlikely to carry one as his field sidearm.
Goofs from imdb.com:
Lestrade receives an envelope. Holmes asks to examine it. As Lestrade hands it over, the flap is loose. Holmes takes the envelope and breaks the seal with a finger.
Holmes enters a bedroom with a pipe in his mouth (as shown from the side/behind). The next shot (immediately after) is from the inside of the second room and shows him with the pipe in his right hand.
When Doctor Watson digs up Alex Macgregor’s coffin, the earth he digs out is bone dry yet in the previous scene the area had been hit by a gale with heavy rain so the earth should have been rain-soaked and difficult for one man to shift. Also Watson has dug that 6 ft deep hole on his own with only a spade in an extraordinarily short amount of time.
As the murders took place in Scotland, a local policeman would have been sent to the crime scene, not Inspector Lestrade from London. The local constabulary contacted Scotland Yard/Inspector Lestrade at the behest of Sherlock Holmes. It is unlikely a policeman would have been sent from London to the north of Scotland during wartime, even at the request of Sherlock Holmes.
Watson and Holmes enter a bar after exiting the conversation with the Tobacconist who had just scolded his daughter for telling Watson and Holmes the name of the deceased subject. Upon making entry into the bar, Holmes is seen doing a hand to hand exchange with a male patron who is about to exit the bar. There is no conversation between the two men during the exchange and no explanation or reason why the exchange would occur.
When the murders began, the members of the club would presumably have been moved out of the house. The insurance policy should have been canceled.
Holmes and Watson. Mary Jo and Bridget. It’s a combination of Scots darkness and Minnesota lightness. Reese’s Peanut Butter cups are jealous.
I hope the housekeeper is as thrilling and dynamic as she was in SH& the Woman in Green!
My Dad really enjoyed the Rathbone/Bruce series, and I’d watch them with him a lot. That said, the riffing of these movies by Bridget & MJ is hilarious.
Yeah, these old Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies really take me back. My parents even still have most of the old VHS tapes I used to watch.
The Voice of Terror was my favorite. I always used to enjoy imitating the VOT guy “Dis ees de Voice of TERRUH!”