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THE cutthroats of the world menace us all," says Basil Rathbone as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective in "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror," the first of the classic 1940s Holmes films now available on DVD anSherlock Holmes on video? It

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From: Oakland Tribune
Date: 20031226
Author:John Beifuss - SCRIPPS HOWARD

As that quote suggests, we still have use for Holmes's brainy brand of crime-fighting. The sleuth remains "ageless, invincible and unchanging," as the introduction to "Voice of Terror" proclaimed, to justify Universal's decision to remove the Holmes character from the Victorian comfort of 221-B Baker Street and place him in the modern world of stolen microfilm and Nazi spies.

Unfortunately, the prints of the 12 Holmes films produced by Universal Pictures between 1942 and 1946 weren't similarly indestructible, especially after the studio's rights to the series expired in the early 1950s. ...

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