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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) More at IMDbPro »

• Although William Gillette's name appears in the credits, this film bears little or no resemblance to his 1899 play "Sherlock Holmes".
  
  
• The movie's line "Elementary, my dear Watson." was voted as the #65 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
  
  
• Lionel Atwill was originally cast as Prof. Moriarty, but was replaced before shooting by George Zucco.
  
  
• The second of fourteen films based on Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.
  
  

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