Dangerous Mission (1945)
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| German title | Dangerous mission | ||
| Original title | Pursuit to Algiers | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 1945 | ||
| length | 65 minutes | ||
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| Director | Roy William Neill | ||
| script | Leonard Lee | ||
| production | Roy William Neill | ||
| music | Edgar Fairchild | ||
| camera | Paul Ivano | ||
| cut | Saul A. Goodkind | ||
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Dangerous mission is an American crime film from the year 1945 . It is the twelfth production in the Universal Pictures film series with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson .
action
When Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson want to go on vacation, they receive a mysterious invitation. Holmes, curious, accepts the invitation. He meets with the Prime Minister of the fictional state of Rovinia, who asks him to accompany the heir to the throne, Prince Nikolas, whose father was murdered, home. A flight is booked, but problems mean that only the Prince and Holmes can get on board. The protesting Watson is said to follow with the passenger steamer Friesland to Algiers.
During the trip, Watson reads the message that the plane in which Holmes and the Prince are located had crashed in the Pyrenees. There is no hope of finding survivors. However, Holmes, who has an aversion to following plans made by others, has also boarded the ship with Nikolas. He introduces the prince to the other passengers as Watson's nephew.
For the sake of simplicity, Watson suspects everyone to be possible killers. The American singer Sheila Woodbury, the sports enthusiast Agatha Dunham and a secretive couple are also under Watson's suspicion. But it wasn't until Lisbon that the real assassins got on board: Gregor, the knife thrower Mirko and the dumb and clumsy Gubec.
Mirko committed an assassination attempt on Holmes by throwing a knife through a porthole at Holmes. Gregor's attempt at a bomb attack during a celebration of the wealthy Agatha Dunham is also thwarted by the detective. Once in Algiers, the three assassins can kidnap the prince. But Holmes makes it clear that the kidnappers got the wrong guy. The supposed prince was a bait, the real Nikolas was employed as a steward on the ship the whole time.
Reviews
"[...] one of the weakest contributions in the series."
"Pretty bland stuff."
background
The film premiered on October 26, 1945.
The basis for the screenplay by Leonard Lee were motifs from the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle , which appeared in 1904 under the title The Return of Sherlock Holmes (published in Germany as The Return of Sherlock Holmes - ISBN 3-251-20018-6 ).
While Marjorie Riordan sang two songs by Everett Carter and Milton Rose ( There Isn't Any Harm in That and Cross My Heart ) and one by Robert Burns and Alexander Hume ( Flow Gently, Sweet Afton ) in the role of singer Sheila Woodbury Nigel Bruce (Dr. Watson) also made his singing debut by singing the Scottish folk song Loch Lomond .
German synchronization
The German dubbed version was created in 1969 on German television broadcasting in the GDR and was first broadcast on June 6, 1969. The main roles were spoken by Walter Niklaus (Sherlock Holmes) and Alfred Bohl (Dr. Watson). In the German dubbing, a group of scientists approaches Holmes. In this version Nikolas is not a prince, but the son of a high-ranking scientist.
In the Federal Republic of Germany it first appeared on television on November 13, 1983.
See also
Web links
- Dangerous Mission in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Dangerous Mission on the Sherlock Holmes Wiki .
Individual evidence
- ^ Dangerous Mission in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed December 9, 2011.
- ↑ - "Pretty stale stuff." Criticism of the TV Guide (Engl.) ( Page no longer available , searching web archives ) Info: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 9, 2011.
