Moore dons a few disguises and even deduces the entire plot even though he really doesn't have to. He plays Holmes on the surface, never aping a previous inhabitant of the role, and gives the detective a reasonably fresh spin, despite the violin and deerstalker.
He is more than up to the part, and those only watching this for him will not be disappointed........... as there is not much else worth watching.Patrick Macnee, on the other hand, as his trusty Dr Watson basically just plays Nigel Bruce. You don't say...I am about 40 minutes into this film, and I have to say it lives down to every complaint I've read on this forum. They reappeared in Night Train to Munich (1940) (also starring Margaret Lockwood) and Millions Like Us (1943), two movies also written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder.
The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway is a real-life miniature (1/3 normal size) railway in southeast England, which in 2003 still uses steam locomotives, and carries passengers over thirteen miles (twenty-one kilometers) of route.Not only acts Madame Kummer as the substitute for Miss Froy, their names are also opposites. In later years and showings, this innocent preamble has been snipped out, and there is a cut straight to them in bed together. Sherlock Holmes has often found a great home in television — “Sherlock Holmes in New York” is one of the exceptions. Wayne (1901–70) grew up in South Wales. supervillain by John Huston, Moriarty seems to be far below Holmes' level. In her first scene, Miss Froy (Dame May Whitty) says, "Bandrika is one of Europe's few undiscovered corners." Now I am not sure I can think of an actor less suited, on the surface, to play Holmes than Moore. Originally release in 1926, this film was hand coloured in the early 1930s and re-released. The scenery the train passes is all rear projection.The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS or DVD copy of the movie. Indeed, it was intended for another director. Fine performances by Roger Moore and John Huston.Roger Moore and Patrick Macnee’s usual entertaining chemistry with one another is largely absent in “New York”. David McKie: Sunday at 7pm is the time for a weekend TV treat: the re-running on ITV3 of the programmes made by Granada between 1984 and 1994 with Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes. This is not one of the movie's loose ends as previously reported.
And the payoff of the whole story is, so the legend goes, that the woman had bubonic plague and they dared not let anybody know she died, otherwise all of Paris would have emptied." Therefore, many of the versions of this movie available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duplicated from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the movie.