By 1946, Basil Rathbone had starred as Sherlock Holmes alongside Nigel Bruce's Doctor Watson fourteen times and perhaps some weariness is on display in this last one, Dressed To Kill, but to be fair, the plot about a criminal gang's race to obtain three identical wooden music boxes, based on Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, gives Sherlock Holmes no opportunity to dazzle with his brilliant methods of deduction because the audience knows pretty much what it needs to know right from the beginning and remains always several steps ahead of the great detective.
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