Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
This is the sixth Basil Rathbone film as Holmes and is based on the story “The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual”. Doctor Watson is working at a stately home that has been converted to treat patients suffering from shell shock when there is an attempted murder.
Compared to the three preceding films in the series made during WW2 this one involves the least propaganda and is much more what you would expect from a Holmes story in terms of being a murder mystery. The plot itself is not especially unique but is acceptable and the family riddle/chess puzzle works fairly well. In the end this is a fairly average film but one of the better in it's series.
3/5
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