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Washington Dc, Usa | Sherlock Holmes
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The "V for victory" match books were for war bonds and were not fictional.
The dubbed German version released in 1959 removed all Nazi references from the dialogue. The story of this edited version is about gangsters trying to get hold of a secret medicine formula that could be dangerous if in the wrong hands.
George Zucco and Henry Daniell both play villains in the film. Zucco earlier played Professor Moriarty in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) and Daniell later played Moriarty in The Woman in Green (1945).
US War Bonds promo tagged onto the end of the film reads: "You're not giving - just lending - when you buy war savings stamps and bonds - on sale here"
Outside the club car, the steward George (Clarence Muse) identifies a uniformed man as a Navy flyer, then adds that his son is in the Army. "He's going to be a flyer, too." This is a reference to the Tuskegee Airmen, who were the first Black military aviators in the U.S. armed forces.
"[last lines] Sherlock Holmes: Yes, but this is a great country, Watson. Dr. John H. Watson: It certainly is, my dear fellow. Sherlock Holmes: Look, up there ahead, the Capitol, the very heart of this democracy. Dr. John H. Watson: Democracy, the only hope for the future, hey, Holmes? Sherlock Holmes: "It's not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future... but, in the days to come, the British and American people will, for their own safety and for the good of all, walk together in majesty, and in justice, and in peace." Dr. John H. Watson: That's magnificent. I quite agree with you. Sherlock Holmes: Not with me, with Mr. Winston Churchill. I was quoting from the speech he made not so long ago in that very building."
"Sherlock Holmes: [Ahrens of the Home Office is explaining the situation about Pettibone having secretly taken a legal document to Washington] What form is this document in? Mr. Ahrens: It was typed... on two sheets of legal paper. Dr. John H. Watson: Two sheets? That's too bulky to swallow. Sherlock Holmes: And dry, Watson, fearfully dry. Especially *legal* papers."
