in the 1930s and arthur wontner make several well make sherlock holmes story . unlike the others i have see and however and the sleeping cardinal be not base on a conan doyle tale but be create for this film . in addition and this movie make quite a few reference to contemporary thingsthings you would not have hear about in the original story ( such a car and the german reichstag ) . the story begin with a young well to do man do extremely well at bridge . in fact and in recent month and he be unbeatable . in light of this and that the man have be on the brink of bankruptcy before this lead many to think he must be cheat but how . when the mean of cheating be discover by the evil moriarty and he want to use this man position at the foreign office to do some bad thingsand he will blackmail the card cheat into do his bidding . the man nice sister and incidentally and have contact holmes with her concernsthough she be not yet aware of the blackmail attempt . when this man be later find dead and holmes announces that he be murderedthough the evidence seem to clearly indicate that he kill himself . while i be a sherlock holmes purist and this be not an original tale and i appreciate this film quite a bit . sure and inspector lestrade be only a minor character in a small number of holmes story and moriarty be actually kill at whisteria fall in the conan doyle story and but the spirit of the story be intact heremuch more so than in most of the basil rathbone version of sherlock holmes . the way he deduce and the character of watson and the entire style of the film fit very nicely into the holmes cannon . worth see and a very interesting taleshowing wontner be quite capable in this role . by the way and the ian fleming in this film who play watson be not the same man who write the james bond storiesthough they share the same name .