Pursuit to Algiers (1945)

Directed by

Roy William Neill

Genre

mystery film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 05m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 80 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson accompany a young king on a steamship journey to Algiers while protecting him from a threat. Watson tells the story to an audience, referencing past unrecorded cases.

light-heartedmysteriouscerebralwhimsicalleisurelynostalgicunderstatedcozy

What happens

Pursuit to Algiers (1945) is the twelfth entry in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes film series of fourteen. Elements in the story pay homage to an otherwise unrecorded affair mentioned by Dr. Watson at the beginning of the 1903 story "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder", notably the steamship Friesland. Off-camera, Watson also recounts to his audience another unrecorded affair mentioned in the 1924 story "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire", that of the Giant Rat of Sumatra, "a story for which the world is not yet prepared". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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