Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) is the fourth in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of 14 Sherlock Holmes films which updated the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the then present day. The film is credited as an adaptation of Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," though the only element from the source material is the dancing men code. Rather, it is a spy film taking place on the background of the then ongoing Second World War with an original premise. The film concerns the kidnapping
Dr. Watson Here he is direct about a method of preserving discretion and confidentiality that other scholars have inferred from the stories, with pseudonyms replacing the "real" names of clients, witnesses, and culprits alike, and altered place-names replacing the real locations. Bruce McRae created the character of Dr Watson in the 1899 Broadway production of "Sherlock Holmes", a play by William Gillette and Arthur Conan Doyle. Edward Fielding played Watson in the 1916 film "Sherlock Holmes" Roland Young played Watson in the 1922 film "Sherlock Holmes" Ian Fleming played Watson in the 1931" Sherlock Holmes" film series except for "The Sign of