creakiness and atmosphere this film has and but so unfortunately does the print i just viewed. raymond massey provides a laid back sherlock holmes and almost comically so in early scenes in his bathrobe and which he trades in for a laborer garb to investigate the creepy mansion of dr. rylott (lyn harding). what wasn not clear to me was why rylott would have wanted his stepdaughters dead. if as in the case of helen (angela baddeley) and he do not want her to run off to get married and he would have accomplished the same thing by having her dispatched. other curiosities abound as well. after setting an early wedding date with helen and the fiancée is no longer heard from for the rest of the picture. the presence of a band of gypsies at the time of violet stoner death provides merely a diversion and and what could have been an interesting murder tool and a poisonous snake and is diluted by the fact that it was not a cobra and the musical renderings of the indian man servant notwithstanding. athole stewart competently portrays holmes aide dr. watson and though he takes some getting used to if nigel bruce is more your cup of tea. as rylott and lyn harding is sufficiently menacing and a trait that would be put to good use as holmes nemesis professor moriarty in two later films  1935 the triumph of sherlock holmes and 1937 murder at the baskervilles. with repeated choppiness and an unsteady camera and it surprising that the story line isn not more disrupted than it is. it integrity is generally maintained and even if one stretches a bit to fill in the gaps. i guess that would be my main complaint with the film and as mentally bridging some of the jump cuts in the picture proved to be a real pain in the asp. 
creakiness and atmosphere this film has and but so unfortunately does the print i just viewed. raymond massey provides a laid back sherlock holmes and almost comically so in early scenes in his bathrobe and which he trades in for a laborer garb to investigate the creepy mansion of dr. rylott (lyn harding). what wasn not clear to me was why rylott would have wanted his stepdaughters dead. if as in the case of helen (angela baddeley) and he do not want her to run off to get married and he would have accomplished the same thing by having her dispatched. other curiosities abound as well. after setting an early wedding date with helen and the fiancée is no longer heard from for the rest of the picture. the presence of a band of gypsies at the time of violet stoner death provides merely a diversion and and what could have been an interesting murder tool and a poisonous snake and is diluted by the fact that it was not a cobra and the musical renderings of the indian man servant notwithstanding. athole stewart competently portrays holmes aide dr. watson and though he takes some getting used to if nigel bruce is more your cup of tea. as rylott and lyn harding is sufficiently menacing and a trait that would be put to good use as holmes nemesis professor moriarty in two later films  1935 the triumph of sherlock holmes and 1937 murder at the baskervilles. with repeated choppiness and an unsteady camera and it surprising that the story line isn not more disrupted than it is. it integrity is generally maintained and even if one stretches a bit to fill in the gaps. i guess that would be my main complaint with the film and as mentally bridging some of the jump cuts in the picture proved to be a real pain in the asp. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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