It is still good fun but Sherlock Holmes is not at his best in this second of the fourteen Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce movies and in fact spends most of the 80-minute runtime being taken for a fool by his arch-rival Professor Moriarty - he brings to mind Frasier here the way his ego leaves him looking a fool - but even worse, when in the final moments he finally twigs and realises what we the audience have known all along from the very beginning, his out-loud logic to a bewildered Watson brings to mind the sort of childish panto one hears between Adam West's Batman and Burt Ward's Robin!
★★★☆☆
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