The Scarlet Claw
Oct. 15th, 2024 09:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo I don't know why the Scarlet Claw is set in Canada. I don't think I heard any Canadian accents- only British ones. Perhaps it is to make it clear that this is Not, repeat Not, the Hound of the Baskervilles.
A spooky legend, a glowing apparition, misty marshes, victims with their throats torn out. But we're not on Dartmoor so it's absolutely not the Hound of the Baskervilles.
But to be fair, though the set-up is very Houndish the denouement isn't. It's a silly movie- not quite as silly as the House of Fear, but also not quite as much fun. There were times, somewhere in the middle, where I was thinking, "Come on, get a move on...."
This was my second Sherlock Holmes with Rathbone and Bruce. I don't suppose I'm going to trudge through the complete oeuvre.
A spooky legend, a glowing apparition, misty marshes, victims with their throats torn out. But we're not on Dartmoor so it's absolutely not the Hound of the Baskervilles.
But to be fair, though the set-up is very Houndish the denouement isn't. It's a silly movie- not quite as silly as the House of Fear, but also not quite as much fun. There were times, somewhere in the middle, where I was thinking, "Come on, get a move on...."
This was my second Sherlock Holmes with Rathbone and Bruce. I don't suppose I'm going to trudge through the complete oeuvre.
