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  1. Dressed to Kill: Directed by Roy William Neill. With Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison, Edmund Breon. Sherlock Holmes sets out to discover why a trio of murderous villains, including a dangerously attractive female, are desperate to obtain three unassuming and inexpensive little music boxes.

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    • Crime, Mystery
    • Roy William Neill
    • 1946-06-07
  2. English. Dressed to Kill. Dressed to Kill is a 1946 American mystery film directed by Roy William Neill. Released by Universal Pictures, it is the last of fourteen films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson. [1] It is also known by the alternative titles Prelude to Murder (working title) and Sherlock ...

  3. 6/10. Holmes & Watson: The Music Box Mystery. lugonian 15 March 2014. DRESSED TO KILL (Universal, 1946), produced and directed by Roy William Neil, comes to a close with the studio's twelfth and final "Sherlock Holmes" installment (1942-46) starring Basil Rathbone (Sherlock Holmes) and Nigel Bruce (Doctor Watson).

  4. Dressed to Kill. 1946. ★★★½. The final Rathbone-Bruce Sherlock Holmes adventure is a fitting end to this wonderful series, with a genuinely brain-busting mystery involving three music boxes that puts Holmes' deductive genius on full display and a splendid villainess in Patricia Morrison (who would shortly after this achieve Broadway ...

    • Roy William Neill
    • Jeremy Berman
  5. Dressed to Kill. (1946) 72 min. b&w. Dressed to Kill is the fourteenth and final Sherlock Holmes film that Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce made together. The original script by Frank Gruber was titled Prelude to Murder. Leonard Lee reworked the script, and eventually it was given the new title Dressed to Kill.

  6. Another great adventure by Sherlock Holes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) . A clever story where the key to money stolen plates from the treasurery, the key lies in 3 money boxes ...

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  8. Dressed to Kill was always destined to be the last of the Rathbone/Bruces. Basil had decided to destring his violin and hang up his pipe as Sherlock Holmes on screen and on radio, but his decision became definitive after Roy William Neill, the producer and director of the bulk of their outings at Universal, died at the end of 1946.