creakiness and atmosphere this film have and but so unfortunately do the print i just view . raymond massey provide a laid back sherlock holmes and almost comically so in early scene in his bathrobe and which he trade in for a laborer garb to investigate the creepy mansion of dr. rylott ( lyn harding ) . what wasn not clear to me be why rylott would have want his stepdaughter dead . if a in the case of helen ( angela baddeley ) and he do not want her to run off to get married and he would have accomplish the same thing by have her dispatch . other curiosity abound as well . after set an early wedding date with helen and the fiancée be no longer hear from for the rest of the picture . the presence of a band of gypsy at the time of violet stoner death provide merely a diversion and and what could have be an interesting murder tool and a poisonous snake and be dilute by the fact that it be not a cobra and the musical rendering of the indian man servant notwithstanding . athole stewart competently portray holmes aide dr. watson and though he take some get use to if nigel bruce be more your cup of tea . a rylott and lyn harding be sufficiently menace and a trait that would be put to good use a holmes nemesis professor moriarty in two later film 1935 the triumph of sherlock holmes and 1937 murder at the baskervilles . with repeated choppiness and an unsteady camera and it surprise that the story line isn not more disrupted than it be . it integrity be generally maintain and even if one stretch a bit to fill in the gap . i guess that would be my main complaint with the film and a mentally bridge some of the jump cut in the picture prove to be a real pain in the asp .