Spoiler alert!!! Starts oddly, with the people we are imagine are going to be the main characters merely sketched in or unseen: two brothers, one prematurely elderly, the other a smoothie, have a younger sister who wants to marry an American airman. Before we get to know the brothers or even meet the airman, weird things start to happen, including murder. The airman is arrested and hence absent for most of the film. The central characters are as usual the wonderful Holmes and Watson.
Weird trappings include a raven that croaks not 'Nevermore' but 'I'm a devil' - a lift from Charles Dickens, who owned and fictionalized such a bird.
The shell-shocked soldiers billeted at Musgrave Manor help in the mystery's solution and are an excellent bunch. Despite nervous stammers, strained smiles and
compulsive knitting, their intelligence is clearly intact. xxxxx
Weird trappings include a raven that croaks not 'Nevermore' but 'I'm a devil' - a lift from Charles Dickens, who owned and fictionalized such a bird.
The shell-shocked soldiers billeted at Musgrave Manor help in the mystery's solution and are an excellent bunch. Despite nervous stammers, strained smiles and
compulsive knitting, their intelligence is clearly intact. xxxxx