Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) on Netflix
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Wireless broadcasts that seem to come from Nazi Germany warn of acts of terror in England just before they take place. The Defense Committee calls in Sherlock Holmes.
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England is at war, and the Defense Committee calls in Sherlock Holmes. Wireless broadcasts that appear to come from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC, and each warns of an act of terror in England shortly before it takes place. The broadcasts are attributed to a voice called the Voice of Terror. Sir Evan Barham brings Holmes onto the Inner Council of British Intelligence to help stop the Nazi saboteurs whose work the broadcasts announce in advance.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
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- In early 1942, before the film went into production, Universal Pictures entered into a contract with the Conan Doyle estate and agreed to pay $300,000 for the screen rights to the Sherlock Holmes character.
- Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror was the first film in the Rathbone and Bruce series to be released by Universal Pictures, and the first in the series to be set in contemporaneous times rather than the Victorian era.
- The film's villain, "The Voice of Terror", was drawn from the real-life broadcasts of Lord Haw-Haw, the Nazi propagandist, combined with elements of Doyle's short story "His Last Bow", to which the film is credited as an adaptation.
- John Rawlins directed Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror, the only one of Universal's Sherlock Holmes films that was not directed by Roy William Neill.
