Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

The four Sherlock Holmes films included here are presented with loving care on four separate discs enclosed in a single large plastic box. What you'll find on each disc is the option of color or b/w viewing plus scene selection and trailers ( most, if not all, latter day concocted trailers directed toward the enclosed Legend Films presentations. Fun to view, but of little historic significance.). The colorization is very well done, indeed! I realize that many purists frown upon colorization of classic films. I choose to view these as enjoyable alternate experiences. Meanwhile the black and white versions are crisp with great sound, as are their colorized incarnations. "Dressed To Kill" does have a blurriness issue during the opening credits. Unfortunate, but it gets cleared up quickly, and, for me not a deal breaker. You won't find a bigger Rathbone/Bruce Holmes/Watson fan than myself. These four, plus the available twin-packs from MPI home video complete my set of the 14 films. An OUTSTANDING way to go. You won't be disappointed! Legend Films is a solid player in the DVD world. They have done a masterful job here. Go for it! Another good option is to buy the entire set on DVD or Bluray put out by MPI video. The extra spice, of course , with the piecemeal approach is getting these cool four films in color! Enjoy my fellow fans of 221B Baker Street's legendary detectives!

Legend Films has done a superb job of turning these classic black and white movies into color. I had purchased some of the earlier VHS efforts to colorize b/w films and they were, in my opinion, poorly done in contrast to Legends dvd reproductions. Here are 4 classics in one case, so far, the only 4 redone in color. You can't beat the price over buying them one at a time in color.I hopefully look forward to seeing the other 10 episodes of the Sherlock Holmes series staring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, also done in color. By the way "Prelude To Murder" is the same movie as "Dressed To Kill".It's been noted elsewhere that UCLA has restored "some" of these 14 episodes, and I'm not sure, but I think that all of them may have been restored, but not yet converted to color. I have all of them in B/W and believe that they are all of very good quality even if not completely restored. This is important if you like to watch them over again in black and white as well as the color versions.Color adds so much more life to black and white film classics that I actually enjoy them as if they were completely new movies.

Prelude, Terror, and Woman are gems.....Secret Weapon is a failed update attempt to bring Holmes into the fight against the Nazis.Rathbone and Bruce attempts are classics. Well produced and directed, and in some ways this series includes films which enhance the original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle ( a genius in my opinion).

It played well and picture was great

Good old movie socked with suspense!

I like black-and-white films. Nothing so demonstrates the skills of earlier movie makers than presenting a world bereft of colour. So it came to my attention that Legend Films had taken a quartet of Sherlock Holmes movies featuring Basil Rathbone and magically transformed them into unabashed modernity. It seems that the effort gave us an increase of detail to please the eye, for colour seems to be our human means of providing information. From the upholstery and wallpaper to the tweed coats and paneling, this brings Sherlock into living art. Even gold-gilt picture frames and 'real' people!These colourizations are excellent and with their b&w copies show a rich and vibrant restoration that are illustrated on these discs. These are the pick of the Rathbone Holmes movies and can be repeatedly watched for new details. In "Terror By Night" watch Doctor Watson's expression when Holmes is examining 'The Star of Rhodesia'. I will assure the avid Sherlock Holmes enthusiest that the Legend Films wonderful output finally satisfies my search for sublime versions of these films. Now if only they come out with Arthur Wontner's earlier (1930's) Holmes...

Sherlock love these DVD’s

If you enjoy the classic Rathbone as SH this has many of his films restored in both black and white and in grainy colorization.