Pursuit to Algiers

Infobox Film
name = Pursuit to Algiers


image_size = 188px
caption = Movie Poster
director = Roy William Neill
producer =
writer = Arthur Conan Doyle (characters)
Leonard Lee (adaptation & screenplay)
narrator =
starring = Basil Rathbone
Nigel Bruce
music =
cinematography =
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distributor = Universal Studios
released = 26 October 1945
runtime = 65 mins.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
gross =
preceded_by = "The Woman in Green"
followed_by = "Terror by Night"
website =
amg_id = 1:39722
imdb_id = 0038008

"Pursuit to Algiers" (1945) is the twelfth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes movies. Elements in the story pay homage to an otherwise unrecorded affair mentioned by Watson at the beginning of The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, notably the steamship Friesland.

Plot summary

Holmes and Watson are escorting Prince Nikolas, heir to an Eastern kingdom, on a passenger ship England to Algiers. The Prince, posing as Watson's nephew, is the target of numerous assassination attempts in order to seize control of the country.

Eventually the villains succeed in kidnapping the Prince, only for Holmes to reveal that the "Prince" was a decoy, and the real Prince had been posing as a Steward, hidden in plain sight. the whole time. [Davies, David Stuart, "Holmes of the Movies" (New English Library, 1976) ISBN 450 03358 9]

Cast

* Basil Rathbone – Sherlock Holmes
* Nigel Bruce – Dr. 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 – Gubec
* Tom Dillon – Restaurant Owner
* Frederick Worlock – Prime Minister
* Sven Hugo Borg – Johansson

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