Dressed to Kill
- IMDb link: 0038494
- IMDb rating: 6.8 (7,585 votes)
- Genres: Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Director: Roy William Neill
- Cast: Patricia Morison, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Edmund Breon and others
- Release date: 7 Jun 1946
- Release year: 1946
- Runtime: 71 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: sherlock holmes character, dr. john watson character, last of series, based on story, producer director, convicted criminal, dartmoor, currency printing plate, music collector, attempted burglary
Plot:
Sherlock Holmes is intrigued when Dr. Watson's friend, Julian 'Stinky' Emery, visits and tells them of a strange robbery at his flat the previous night. Stinky is an avid collector of music boxes and has several quite expensive pieces in his vast collection. The previous night, someone broke into his flat and knocked him unconscious when he tried to intervene. All they took however was a simple wooden music box he had bought at auction that day for a mere £2. The box was one of three available for sale and as Holmes and Watson begin to trace the other purchasers, it becomes apparent that someone will stop at nothing, including murder, to retrieve all three. When Holmes learns the identity of the music box maker, he is convinced it contains directions to the retrieval of something very valuable that the government has kept from the public.