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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943) was a Adventure - Crime Film directed by Roy William Neill and produced by Howard Benedict.

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Sherlock Holmes: Christmas boxes! Watson, I'm beginning to see the plan. Dr. Tobell divided his bombsight into four parts. He's given one of these four parts to each of these scientists. What a fascinating plan! You see, each of these parts is useless without the other three...


Professor Moriarty: The needle to the last, eh, Holmes?


Sherlock Holmes: ...I must confess I shied at the thought of disemboweling a complete set of Charles Dickens.


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This was the first of Universal's Sherlock Holmes series in which 'Dennis Hoey' appeared as Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard.
Although the main plot revolves around governments and wars that came to be only after Sir 'Arthur Conan Doyle''s death, the secret code from Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Dancing Men", is incorporated as a subplot.
The lines that Holmes quotes at the end of the film are a condensed version of William Shakespeare's lines from Richard II. Richard II, 2.1, 40-51
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