After the King of Rovenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers, aboard a transatlantic ocean liner which also carries a number of suspicious persons, any of whom may be involved in a plot to also assassinate him.
Acting
Rathbone's Holmes—icy, sharp, impossibly smug
Production
Fake boat sets that somehow still work
Writing
Watson's bumbling saves the day accidentally
Director
Roy William Neill
Basil Rathbone
Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce
Doctor Watson
Marjorie Riordan
Sheila Woodbury
Rosalind Ivan
Agatha Dunham
Morton Lowry
Steward
Leslie Vincent
Nikolas Watson
Martin Kosleck
Mirko
Rex Evans
Gregor
John Abbott
Jodri
Gerald Hamer
Kingston
William 'Wee Willie' Davis
Gubek
Frederick Worlock
Prime Minister
Tom Dillon
Matthias Cherney (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten
Stimson (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the twelfth of fourteen Rathbone-Bruce Holmes films, and the only one set almost entirely at sea.
Released months after WWII ended, its European royalty-in-exile plot resonated with real displaced monarchs and fleeing governments.
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