The voice of terror

Movie
German title	The voice of terror
Original title	Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1942
length	65 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	John Rawlins
script	John Bright Robert Hardy Andrews Lynn Riggs
production	Howard Benedict
music	Frank Skinner
camera	Elwood Bredell
cut	Russell Schoengarth
occupation
Basil Rathbone : Sherlock Holmes Nigel Bruce : Dr. John H. Watson Evelyn Ankers : Kitty Reginald Denny : Sir Evan Barham Thomas Gomez : RF Meade Henry Daniell : Anthony Lloyd Montagu Love : Gen. Jerome Lawford Olaf Hytten : Fabian Prentiss Leyland Hodgson : Capt. Roland Shore Mary Gordon : Mrs. Hudson Harry Cording : Camberwell, the killer Arthur Stenning : British officer
chronology
←  Predecessor The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Successor  → The Secret Weapon

The Voice of Terror is a 1942 American film . It is the third film in the Sherlock Holmes series with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce and the first to be relocated to the present day for propaganda purposes . The screenplay is roughly based on the short story "His last Bow" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , published in September 1917 first in "The Strand Magazine" and then in "Collier's weekly" . The film was produced by Universal Pictures and had its TV premiere in Germany on August 17, 1992 on 3sat . One notices in this and the following films that the story is clearly in the service of propaganda against Germany.

action

England during World War II: Unidentified saboteurs set up a secret transmitter to alarm the citizens of England with disaster news. British intelligence calls on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to locate the radio station and make it harmless. Most of the news immediately followed the accident; however, when a report predicts a disaster in the immediate future, the matter becomes more and more worrying.

Supported by Dr. Watson, the master detective visits the London slums and meets there with Kitty, the friend of an informant who was recently murdered. She joins Holmes out of love for the fatherland and tries to bring light into the dark from her side.

Finally, on the coast of England there is a showdown with the spies, who turn out to be collaborators with the Nazis.

background

In the original English version, the actor Edgar Barrier spoke the voice of terror; in the German version from 1992, Rüdiger Schulzki took over .

Reviews

"This opening film, of all things, is the weakest of the whole series in terms of staging - perhaps because the original" His last Bow "was used too much in the service of anti-Nazi propaganda from Hollywood at the time."

- Lexicon of international film

DVD release

• The voice of terror . On: The Sherlock Holmes Collection. Part 1 . Special Edition (4 DVD set). Koch Media 2006

See also

• Sherlock Holmes films

literature

• Michael Ross (ed.): Sherlock Holmes in film and television. A manual . Baskerville books, Cologne 2003, 237 pages, ISBN 3-930932-03-2

Web links

• The Voice of Terror in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Voice of Terror. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .